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PDF 84 Feb 20 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands/Belgrano: Flesher record of conversation (Flesher-Chief Whip) [Wakeham prefers that Ponting’s letter to Dalyell should not be raised in the Commons] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands/Belgrano: Shadow Cabinet letter to MT (sinking of the Belgrano) [“serious discrepancies which exist between the Government version of the circumstances surrounding the sinking … and statements regarding the affair in two recent publications”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands/Belgrano: Dalyell letter to Heseltine (sinking of the Belgrano) [nine questions] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 22 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands/Belgrano: Heseltine PS minute to Clive Ponting (“Sinking of the Belgrano”) [Heseltine seeks “a detailed chronology of the events leading up to the sinking”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands/Belgrano: Whitmore minute to Heseltine PS (sinking of the Belgrano) [drafting of MT letter to Denzil Davies MP] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands/Belgrano: Dalyell letter to MT (sinking of the Belgrano) [further questions] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands/Belgrano: Heseltine PS minute to John Coles (“The Belgrano”) [general line for MT to take in PMQs] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 May 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands/Belgrano: Cabinet Office record of conversation (Armstrong, Hetherington, Steel, Davie and Parker) [“Leak procedures”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 May 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands/Belgrano: Heseltine letter to Dalyell (sinking of the Belgrano) [no point in prolonging Dalyell’s argument “by a further round of detailed correspondence”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Aug 10 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands/Belgrano: Ministry of Defence letter to Armstrong (“Leak Investigation”) [“it is clearly highly embarrassing that information on so sensitive a subject should have been released in this way”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Aug 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands/Belgrano: No.10 telex to MT (leak investigation at MOD) [two documents passed to Tam Dalyell] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Aug 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands/Belgrano: Cabinet Office letter to Ministry of Defence (“Leak Investigation”) [“it will be essential for the Government to operate by the book”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Aug 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands/Belgrano: Ministry of Defence letter to Cabinet Office (“Leak Investigation”) [potential prosecution under Official Secrets Act] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Aug 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands/Belgrano: MoD minute to Ponting (leak to Dalyell) [unable to accept resignation while possibility of prosecution and departmental disciplinary charges under consideration] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Aug 15 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands/Belgrano: Cabinet Office letter to MoD (“Leak Investigation”) [attaches record of conversation between Le Cheminant and John Ward of First Division Association] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Aug 17 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands/Belgrano: MoD letter to Cabinet Office (“Leak investigation”) [assessment of impact on national security] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Aug 17 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands/Belgrano: Heseltine PS minute to Lord President's Office (“Unauthorised disclosure of documents to Tam Dalyell MP”) [MoD damage assessment, possible prosecution] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Aug 17 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands/Belgrano: No.10 telex to MT (leak investigation at MOD) [decision to charge Clive Ponting; suspended without pay, with chronology of events] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Aug 17 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands/Belgrano: Heseltine PS minute to Lord President's Office (“Unauthorised disclosure of documents to Tam Dalyell MP”) [MoD damage assessment, possible prosecution] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Aug 18 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands/Belgrano: MT telex to No.10 (leak investigation at MOD) [query decision to suspend Ponting without pay - “a bit rough”] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Aug 19 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands/Belgrano: MoD note to No.10 (“Observer” article) [exposure of alleged “cover up”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Aug 20 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands/Belgrano: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (“Mr Ponting”) [MoD procedure and prosecution decision] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Aug 23 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands/Belgrano: Ministry of Defence letter to Director of Public Prosecutions (Ponting case) [New Statesman article draws on further leak; possible further police inquiry] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Aug 23 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands/Belgrano: No.10 telex to MT (Ponting case) [new and more serious ‘Belgrano’ leak] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands/Belgrano: MT letter to David Owen (Ponting case) [had no role in decision to charge] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands/Belgrano: Kinnock letter to MT (sinking of the Belgrano) [renews call for independent inquiry into sinking; questions decision to prosecute Ponting] [released 1984; this copy declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands/Belgrano: Heseltine PS minute to Charles Powell (“Letters about the Falklands War”) [decision to prosecute Ponting] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands/Belgrano: Ministry of Defence letter to No.10 (Ponting case) [“Prosecution of Mr Ponting: Sequences of Events”] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands/Belgrano: Heseltine PS minute to Butler (“Prime Minister’s letter to Mr Kinnock”) [Heseltine would like to expand section on sequence of events leading up to decision to prosecute Ponting] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands/Belgrano: Armstrong minute for Ingham (“MIO”) [whether to launch a leak inquiry] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands/Belgrano: Attorney-General’s Office letter to No.10 (Ponting case) [HMG policy towards leaks since 1980] [declassified Dec 2014]
Text 84 Sep 19 We Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Margaret Thatcher MT letter to George Foulkes MP (General Belgrano)
Text 84 Sep 19 We Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Margaret Thatcher MT letter to Neil Kinnock MP (General Belgrano)
PDF 84 Sep 28 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands/Belgrano: Kinnock letter to MT (sinking of the Belgrano) [“The issue is the detail of the conduct of your Government at the time of the attack and in response to subsequent questions”]
PDF 84 Oct 2 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands/Belgrano: Attorney-General letter to John Morris MP (Ponting trial) [“I have no reason whatever to think that Mr Ponting cannot or will not get a fair trial”] [released 1984; this copy declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 8 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands/Belgrano: MT letter to Neil Kinnock (Ponting case) [rebuttal] [released 1984; this copy declassified Dec 2014]
Text 84 Oct 8 Mo Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Margaret Thatcher MT letter to Neil Kinnock MP (General Belgrano)
Text 84 Oct 8 Mo Speeches, interviews, etc. Minor Margaret Thatcher MT letter to George Foulkes MP (General Belgrano)
PDF 84 Oct 10 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands/Belgrano: Heseltine PS minute to Charles Powell (“The Belgrano”) [handling of Dalyell’s questions] [released Dec 2014]
Text 84 Nov 19 Mo Speeches, interviews, etc. Minor Margaret Thatcher MT letter to Tam Dalyell MP (General Belgrano)
PDF 85 Jan 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands/Belgrano: No.10 record of conversation (1700Z) (MT-Sir Geoffrey Howe) [Ponting trial - agreed to make available “Crown Jewels” to the court sitting in camera] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands/Belgrano: Hailsham minute to MT (“Proposed Coverage of the Ponting Case”) [judges have “reservations about the possible effect of such broadcasts on the fairness of this and any other trial”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 23 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands/Belgrano: Charles Powell minute to MT ("Channel 4 & Ponting") [concerns over Channel 4 nightly 30 minute coverage] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 28 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Falklands/Belgrano: FCO letter to Attorney-General's Office (“Ponting”) [error in earlier letter] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 1 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands/Belgrano: Kinnock letter to MT (Guardian article on the sinking of the Belgrano) [alleged change in Fieldhouse’s account] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 7 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands/Belgrano: Heseltine minute to MT (“Sinking of the Belgrano: Disclosure of Information to the Foreign Affairs Committee”) [inappropriate to release documents] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 7 Th Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Archive (TNA) Falklands/Belgrano: Clive Ponting TV interview for ITN News At Ten (text of his anonymous letter to Tam Dalyell) [this copy released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 7 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands/Belgrano: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Howe-Heseltine-Brittan-Biffen-Wakeham; Havers, Armstrong) [denial of “Crown Jewels” to Foreign Affairs Select Committee] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 11 Mo Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: David Owen statement (Ponting acquittal) [“a triumph for commonsense”] [this copy released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 11 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands/Belgrano: Steel minute to Press Office (“Ponting case”) [suggestions for comments after trial result] [released Dec 2014]

Documents lie at the core of this website, each one dated and sorted chronologically (by default) in search results. Most are images in PDF format of original paper documents scanned or filmed for the site. There are also transcripts of speeches and interviews, press articles, photos, videos, and more. The document database contains tens of thousands of items and permits complex searching.

Files are multi-page PDFs from which most of the documents on the site are selected. All of Mrs Thatcher’s official files from No.10 are available in full on this site (paper copies are stored at the National Archives in the series PREM19), as well as most of those of Geoffrey Howe and Nigel Lawson as Chancellor (stored at TNA as series T639 and T640).

Guides are articles about key events and topics. Many were written to accompany annual releases of Mrs Thatcher’s private and party papers at the Churchill Archive Centre in Cambridge.

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