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PDF 84 Aug 2 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Science and technology: David Barclay minute to MT (“1984 Review of Research”) [“expenditure on Defence R&D is disproportionately high … research in support of manufacturing industry is disproportionately low”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Aug 6 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Science and technology: No.10 minute to Armstrong Nicholson (“Annual Review of Government-funded Research and Development”) [MT gives go ahead for work in response to review] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Aug 7 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Science and technology: Robin Nicholson minute to No.10 (“Annual review of government-funded research and development”) [error in previous minute on funding costs] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Aug 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Science and technology: Robin Nicholson minute to No.10 (“Maintaining the strength of the science base”) [Heseltine’s attitude to funding for the Science Vote] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 1 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Science and technology: No.10 briefing (annual review of government-funded R&D) [departmental responses to ACARD report] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Nov 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Science and technology: David Barclay minute to Nicholson (“BBC 2 Horizon programme on science”) [MT requests more detail on “your idea that the Government might seek to put forward a more positive view of British science and technology”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Science and technology: No.10 briefing (annual review of government-funded R&D) [publication of factual material in ACARD report] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 19 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Science and technology: Joseph minute to MT (“The exploitation of Research Council funded inventions”) [“Many researchers do not have the skills to pursue exploitation themselves”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Science and technology: David Barclay minute to No.10 (“Meeting with Sir Keith Joseph”) [points Joseph likely to raise: higher education policy; economic awareness in schools; teacher’s pay; ‘the switch’] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Science and technology: Robin Nicholson minute to MT (“Exploitation of Research Council inventions”) [“such an emormous step from the present protective bureaucracy would not be wise”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Science and technology: John Butcher minute to MT (“IT skills shortages”) [“the DTI and I have been so anxious to concentrate on securing additional resources from the private sector”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Dec 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Science and technology: Joseph minute to MT (“The Switch to Engineering and Technology”) [“The case for an increase in IT graduates has been pressed on me vigorously by the economic departments”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 2 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Science and technology: No.10 briefing (“Meeting with Sir Keith Joseph”) [Joseph attempting “to at least get the ‘switch’ underway in the short-term”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Science and technology: David Barclay minute to MT (“The science base”) [Robin Nicholson “suggests a series of measures designed to increase MOD’s spending in the universities, without increasing its overall expenditure on research”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Science and technology: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Joseph) ["various issues in the field of education"] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Science and technology: No.10 briefing (meeting with Joseph) [“Can a discussion of the Switch take place without tackling the long term problem of the balance of courses in Universities?”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Science and technology: David Barclay minute to Robin Nicholson (“Maintaining the strength of the science base”) [“officials should work out the details as a matter of urgency”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Science and technology: Keith Joseph minute to MT (“The Switch to Engineering and Technology”) [proposed meeting on Joseph’s plans] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 23 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Science and technology: King minute to Joseph (“Switch to Engineering and Technology”) [hopes “any support that we give in extra resources is additional to a substantial switch programme within the universities and colleges themselves”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 23 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Science and technology: King minute to Rees (“The Switch to Engineering and Technology”) [“I can justify contributing £1m in 1985/6 provided that the other economic departments do the same”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 29 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Science and technology: Robin Nicholson minute to MT (“Education and training for new technologies”) [House of Lords report on “the ability of the UK educational system to support new technologies important to the economic future of the nation”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 1 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Science and technology: Cabinet Office minute to MT (“The Switch to Engineering and Technology”) [“The sums involved in Sir Keith’s scheme are very small as a proportion of the provision of about £1.4 billion for universities’s current expenditure”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 5 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Science and technology: Robin Nicholson minute to MT (“The Switch to Engineering and Technology”) [“it is essential that the private sector make a full contribution in cash and in kind”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 5 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Science and technology: Cabinet Office minute to Joseph (“The Switch to Engineering and Technology”) [possibility of “redeploying resources freed from reductions in arts provision outside the universities”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 5 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Science and technology: Letwin minute to MT (“The Switch to Engineering and Technology”) [“if money is to be spent it should go first to the schools whilst better concrete evidence is accumulated for making any major switch in universities”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Science and technology: No.10 minute to Department of Education (“The Switch to Engineering and Technology”) [“there was clear agreement that measures to increase the supply of engineering and technology graduates were both vital and urgent”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 7 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Science and technology: No.10 minute to Department of Energy (“The Switch to Engineering and Technology in the universities”) [would the Secretary of State offer £1m a year toward the scheme?] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 20 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Science and technology: Tebbit letter to Joseph (“The Switch to Engineering and Technology”) [“We need to consider how the funds which we have agreed should be made available for the Switch should be allocated”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 20 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Science and technology: Joseph PS minute to No.10 (“Maintaining the strength of the science base: Sir R Nicholson’s report”) [“MoD already fund research collaboration with universities”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 22 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Science and technology: Armstrong minute to MT (“International Science and Technology Co-ordination”) [“administrative changes affecting our handling of international science and technology”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 22 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Science and technology: David Barclay minute to MT (“The Switch to Engineering and Technology”) [“the Government has found its contribution. It remains to persuade the private sector to deliver”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 22 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Science and technology: David Barclay minute to MT (“The Switch to Engineering and Technology”) [proposed meeting with industrialists] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 22 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Science and technology: Department of Energy minute to No.10 (“The Switch to Engineering and Technology in the universities”) [agreement to contribute to scheme] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 25 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Science and technology: No.10 record of conversation (“Maintaining the strength of the science base: Sir Robin Nicholson’s report”) [MT “concerned that Departments are not implementing … [the] recommendations as vigorously as she thinks is necessary”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 26 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Science and technology: Joseph minute to Young (“Switch to Engineering and Technology”) [proposals to redirect arts spending] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Science and technology: Joseph minute to Tebbit (polytechnics and “The Switch”) [“possibility that some of the resources for this programme should be allocated to the polytechnics”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Science and technology: Joseph PS minute to No.10 (increasing the output of engineers and technologists) [meeting with industrialists to discuss proposals] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 4 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Science and technology: Tebbit minute to Heseltine (“Skill shortages”) [proposals for tackling “the serious, and increasing, shortage of skilled people in high technology industries”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 4 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Science and technology: Flesher minute to MT (“Switch”) [MT’s view “that it might be better if the announcement were separate in order to avoid being overwhelmed by the rest of the Budget”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 5 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Science and technology: Tebbit minute to Joseph (The Switch and polytechnics) [“we should rely on industry’s advice in deciding which, if any, polytechnics should be included within the scope of the exercise”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Science and technology: Younger letter to Joseph (“Switch to Engineering and Technology”) [“I am prepared, in the light of the willingness of other Ministers with ‘economic’ responsibilities to contribute to the switch”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 7 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Science and technology: No.10 minute to Department of Education (The Switch to Engineering and Technology) [MT’s thoughts on the timing of the announcement] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 8 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Science and technology: Joseph letter to Tebbit (“Increasing the output of engineers and technologists”) [“It is essential to secure some increase in intakes to universities this autumn to show that the Goverment is taking decisive action”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Science and technology: Younger letter to Joseph (“Increasing the output of engineers and technologists”) [“I have the most serious difficulty with the almost token recognition of the Scottish universities in your proposed 1985/86 allocations”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Science and technology: Tebbit letter to Joseph (“Increasing the output of engineers and technologists”) [agrees with proposal &ldquothat we give immediate approval to bids of clear academic excellence, where industry has also given a high grading for industrial relevance”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Science and technology: Joseph PS minute to Lawson PS (“Budget Day press releases: The Switch”) [funding found within existing resources] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Science and technology: King minute to Joseph (“Increasing the output of engineers and technologists”) [“it is important for the Government to respond quickly to meet the identified need for additional graduates in shortage subjects”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Science and technology: Addison minute to MT (The Switch to Engineering and Technology) [to be announced at the Budget, impact on meeting with industrialists] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Science and technology: Heseltine letter to Tebbit (“Skill shortages”) [prepared to re-allocate resources to “permit a substantial increase in the number of university students directly sponsored by the Ministry of Defence”] [released Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Science and technology: Nicholas Edwards minute to Joseph (“The Switch to Engineering and Technology”) [Welsh polytechnic “capable of the degree of excellence which we are looking for”] [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 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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