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PDF 84 Jan 24 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil service: Lord Gowrie minute to MT (Promotion blockages in the Civil Service) ["You... specifically asked for my views on two points: the reality of the [low] morale argument: and the reality of the link between reduced career prospects and Civil Service efficiency"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 26 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil service: Efficiency Unit letter to Heseltine (targets for management and efficiency improvement) ["I think that you personally may be interested to know about the overall response to my letter... your approach in MOD is absolutely in the right direction... I would like to offer my help"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 26 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil service: Lord Gowrie letter to Brittan ("Report of the Joint Review Group (JRG) on Employment Opportunities for Women in the Civil Service: Programme of Action in Response to its Recommendations") [Trade Union concerns; Programme & policy statement by PQ/draft press notice; costs] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jan 27 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil service: Jopling minute to MT ("Terms of retirement of civil servants") ["the same terms are available to people who have to leave through no fault of their own and people who need to be got rid of because of their limited efficiency"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Feb 15 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil service: Prior minute to MT ("Northern Ireland Civil Service Manpower after 1984") ["to seek your agreement to announcing the results of the work which I set in hand... in parallel with that undertaken in Whitehall"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil service: Cabinet Office minute to Lord Gowrie & MT ("Open Structure Course") ["a new course for those promoted... to equip them for their role as top managers... outline proposals"; MT of the view "that the age of 40 is too late to start senior management training"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 27 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil service: No.10 minute (internal): Policy Unit to Turnbull ("Future of the Royal Dockyards") ["Although these [contractor management] proposals will not be easy to implement, they are greatly to be preferred to the alternative option of a Trading Fund... Nevertheless there is a more radical approach to the problem... Privatisation"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 May 1 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil service: Rees minute to MT ("Civil service numbers") ["a key pledge has been fulfilled... I think it would be appropriate for you to announce the achievement of the target personally"; draft PQ] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 May 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil service: Fowler minute to MT ("Industrial action: DHSS computer staff") [details; contingency arrangements; line to take] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 May 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil service: Treasury letter to No.10 ("Special Appointments") [guidance for Departments] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 7 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil service: Rees minute to MT ("Financial Management in Government Departments") [progress report; MT seeks "more concrete examples of improvements in essential public services, or of cost savings" and conveys misgivings about the initiative's value for money] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 11 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil service: Lord Gowrie minute to MT ("Direct Entry Principal Competition 1983") [report on outcome: "relatively disappointing"; proposals for 1984; MT requests further information] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 11 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil service: Lord Gowrie minute to MT ("Multi-Department Reviews 1984/85") ["management of civil accommodation... by far the largest element after pay in departmental running expenses"; details of proposed review] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil service: No.10 minute to MT ("Direct Entry Principal Competition") [details of revised scheme following "very disappointing" results of 1983 intake] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 15 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Civil service: Lord Gowrie PS minute to No.10 ("MPO's Management Documents for 1984-85") ["how the MPO plans to take forward its work during the year"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil service: Prior minute to MT ("Progress with Financial Management in Northern Ireland Departments") [follow-up report: "considerable progress"; MT welcomes report but asks for it to be made "more accessible to the ordinary reader"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 20 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil service: Keith Joseph letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("TCSC: Long Term Trends Enquiry") [outline of DES paper] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Jun 20 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Civil service: Lord Gowrie PS letter to No.10 ("Numbers on Personnel Work in the Civil Service") [report on "comparisons between personnel sections on Government departments"] [declassified Jan 2014]
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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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