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Text 62 Mar 1 Th Speeches, interviews, etc. Minor Margaret Thatcher HC S [Maternity Benefit (Mrs A.J. Carney)]
Text 71 Jul 14 We Speeches, interviews, etc. Minor Margaret Thatcher HC I Report [Education (Milk) Bill]
Info only 72 Apr 25 Tu Speeches, interviews, etc. Minor Margaret Thatcher Radio Interview for BBC French Service
Text 73 Apr 1 Su Speeches, interviews, etc. Trivial Margaret Thatcher Remarks visiting the Scilly Isles ("absolutely delightful")
Info only 73 Sep 20 Th Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Margaret Thatcher TV Interview for BBC1 Nationwide
Text 73 Nov 20 Tu Speeches, interviews, etc. Trivial Margaret Thatcher HC I [Museum Charges (Opposition motion) (Faulds speech)]
CD only 75 Jun 2 Mo Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Margaret Thatcher TV Interview for BBC2 Newsday
CD only 77 Jul 11 Mo Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Margaret Thatcher TV Interview for BBC1 Panorama
CD only 78 Jul 17 Mo Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Margaret Thatcher TV Interview for BBC1 Panorama
CD only 78 Sep 27 We Speeches, interviews, etc. Minor Margaret Thatcher Speech to Carmarthen Conservatives
PDF 79 Aug 8 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Bullard minute on BBC External Services (FCO proposals for cuts) [“Experience has made me suspicious of the BBC’s own figures”] [declassified 2009]
PDF 79 Dec 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Broadcasting: Gladstone minute on BBC External Services (lunch at Bush House) [vital FCO/BBC be on same side next time; BBC to lay on “suitable claret”] [declassified 2009]
PDF 80 Feb 8 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: UKE Washington telegram 642 to FCO (2145Z) (“Reactions to the US budget for FY 1981”) [“little enthusiasm”] [declassified 2012]
PDF 80 Apr 24 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: UKE Washington telegram 1589 to FCO (2045Z) ("US Presidential Campaign: Pennsylvania") ["seen as a last chance for Kennedy and Bush to stem the tide running in favour of Carter and Reagan"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 80 Jul 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: UKE Washington telegram 2550 to FCO (2335Z) ("The Republican National Convention, Detroit 14-17 July") [report on Reagan's endorsement as Presidential nominee] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 80 Sep 11 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: UKE Washington telegram 3979 to FCO (2330Z) ("US Presidential Campaign") [participation in first televised debate] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 80 Dec 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economy: Bush minute to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("Stocktaking Note: Matter for Ministerial Attention") [issues likely to come up for ministerial attention in first quarter of 1981] [declassified 2012]
PDF 81 Jan 27 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: UKE Washington telegram 257 to FCO (0030Z) ("President Reagan's Government") ["some preliminary comments on the conduct of business, particulary foreign affairs"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 81 Jan 28 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: UKE Washington telegram 286 to FCO (0050Z) ("Hostages: Washington Reception") [report] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 81 Feb 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: National Security Council minutes (1830Z) (“Caribbean Basin & Poland”) (NSC 0001) [preliminary discussion] [declassified 2007]
PDF 81 Feb 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: National Security Council minutes (“Central America [& Taiwan]”) (NSC 0002) [declassified 2007]
PDF 81 Feb 17 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: State Department briefing for President Reagan (“Essential Issues Papers”) [declassified 2006]
PDF 81 Feb 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: Al Haig briefing for President Reagan (MT visit, with copy of her final schedule) [principal goal: "demonstrate publicly and privately that Mrs.Thatcher is the major Western leader most attuned to your views on East-West and security issues"] [declassified 2006]
PDF 81 Feb 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War & Caribbean: National Security Council minutes (1542Z) ("Caribbean Basin & F15s") (NSC 0003) [declassified 2007]
PDF 81 Feb 19 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: NSC memorandum to Vice-President Bush (urges he meet Carrington whose “support (and restraint) will be critical”) [declassified 2006]
PDF 81 Feb 23 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: State Department memorandum for National Security Adviser (“Paper for the NSC Meeting on El Savador”) [Interagency options paper, examining US and third country assistance] [declassified 2007]
PDF 81 Feb 24 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: National Security Adviser briefing for President (NSC Meeting 25 Feb) [Interagency options paper proposes only "initial quick fixes", need to "gear up for the longer haul"] [declassified 2008]
PDF 81 Feb 25 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Budget: HMT record of conversation (Macro-Economic Group) ["Budget Developments"] [declassified 2011]
Audio 81 Feb 26 Th Multimedia Minor Ronald Reagan & Margaret Thatcher Conversation during press shoot (length of US election campaigns; noisy press cameras; art in the Oval Office) [audio]
PDF 81 Feb 26 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Cold War: No.10 note of conversation (Reagan-Thatcher meeting) [plenary session] [declassified 2011]
Text 81 Feb 26 Th Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Margaret Thatcher Remarks leaving the White House
Text 81 Feb 27 Fr Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Margaret Thatcher & Ronald Reagan Exchange of toasts at British Embassy Dinner
PDF 81 Feb 27 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Central America & Middle East: National Security Council minutes (2130Z) ("El Salvador & Saudi F15s") (NSC 0004) [declassified 2011]
Text 81 Mar 2 Mo Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Margaret Thatcher HC Stmnt: [Prime Minister (American Visit)]
PDF 81 Mar 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Bush Library) Argentina: White House record of conversation (Vice-President Bush-Argentine President-designate Viola) [human rights; El Salvador] [declassified 2016]
PDF 81 Mar 19 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Middle East: National Security Council minutes (2000Z) ("Sinai peacekeeping & Pakistan") (NSC 0005) [declassified 2005]
PDF 81 Mar 25 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) USA: UKE Washington telegram 1002 to FCO (2311Z) ("Secretary Haig: crisis management") [report on Reagan's decision to allocate responsibility to Bush, and Haig's reaction] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 81 Mar 26 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War/Central America/Africa: National Security Council minutes (1905Z) ("Poland, Nicaragua/Central America, Southern Africa") (NSC 0006) [declassified 2005]
PDF 81 Mar 26 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) US: MT letter to Vice-President Bush (thanks for photographs) ["What a happy visit it was"] [released 2012]
PDF 81 Apr 2 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC(81) 14th (British Telecommunications Bill, Poland, Canadian Constitution, Belize, Thailand, Zimbabwe, Iran, United States, EC Affairs) [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Apr 11 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Middle East/Cold War/Central America: National Security Council minutes (1900Z) ("Haig trip to Mideast and Europe, Saudi AWACS, and Nicaragua") (NSC 0007) [declassified Jul 2010]
PDF 81 Apr 30 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War: National Security Council minutes (1510Z) ("Theater Nuclear Forces - negotiations timing") (NSC 0008) [declassified 2005]
PDF 81 May 22 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War/Caribbean: National Security Council minutes (1300Z) ("US-USSR Standing Consultative Commission and US Policy for Caribbean Basin") (NSC 0009) [declassified Nov 2008]
PDF 81 May 25 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Germany: No.10 record of telephone conversation (MT-Schmidt) [MT gives Schmidt account of her Washington visit] [released 2012]
PDF 81 May 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War/Central America/China: National Security Council minutes (1730Z) ("US Policy for Caribbean Basin, US Relations with the PRC, and Sinai Multinational Force") (NSC 0010) [declassified Oct 2012]
PDF 81 Jun 1 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Latin America/Middle East: National Security Council minutes (1930Z) ("Arms Transfer Policy & F16s for Venezuela; US Policy Toward Libya") (NSC 0011) [declassified Oct 2012]
PDF 81 Jun 4 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) Cold War/China & Far East: National Security Council minutes (1730Z) ("China, Cuba and Secretary Haig's Trip to the Far East") (NSC 0012) [declassified Jun 2016]
PDF 81 Jun 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: UKE Washington letter to FCO ("Prime Minister's Stormont Speech, 28 May") [impact of MT's speech in the US; "it is very probable that [Ed Meese] showed and commended it to the President"] [declassified 2011]
PDF 81 Jun 10 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Reagan Library) China/Cold War: National Security Council minutes (1554Z) ("China, Greece and Poland") (NSC 0013) [declassified Mar 2007]
PDF 81 Jun 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Middle East: UKE Washington telegram 1838 to FCO (1619Z) ("Lord Privy Seal's Meeting with the Vice President") [Gilmour-Bush meeting: Arab-Israeli conflict, Mitterand's position on Israel, Israeli attack on Osirak nuclear installation in Iraq, Syria, European initiatives] [declassified 2011]

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 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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