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PDF 85 Mar 3 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Robert Armstrong minute to Charles Powell ("Exchange of Letters with Dr Paisley") [risk DUP will not participate in further talks on devolution unless government goes some way to meet them] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 7 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Leon Brittan minute to Douglas Hurd ("1984 Review of Security Policy in Northern Ireland") [PIRA activity, counter-measures on the mainland] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 7 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Douglas Hurd minute to Peter Rees ("The 1984 Review of Security Policy in Northern Ireland") ["determining the right numbers of police and Army" to include political judgment] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Geoffrey Howe minute to MT ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Briefing HM Ambassador Washington about the Dialogue") [decision to keep Ambassador fully informed about state of play] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Douglas Hurd minute to Michael Heseltine (1984 Review of Security Policy in Northern Ireland) [using resources in efficient and cost effective manner to deal with terrorism threat] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Heseltine PS minute to Charles Powell (Prison Guard Force) [availability of new type of baton round] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 29 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Howe PS minute to Charles Powell ("Visit by the Taoiseach's to Northern Ireland") [such visits have been rare in the past] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 29 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: UKE Dublin telegram 231 to FCO (0900Z) ("Anglo-Irish Talks") [press reports on new committee, prospects for a final agreement] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 29 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: UKE Dublin telegram 237 to FCO (1745Z) ("The Taoiseach's Visit to Londonderry") [extracts from FitzGerald speech] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 30 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Howe PS minute to Charles Powell ("The Taoiseach's Visit to Londonderry") [tone of FitzGerald's speech] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 2 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Douglas Hurd minute to MT ("Anglo/Irish Relations: Joint Courts") [Irish want a firm commitment to principle of establishing joint courts] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 7 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Robert Armstrong minute to MT ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") ["It would be impossible to gain acceptance in the Irish Republic or from the SDLP for many elements in the text"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 9 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Geoffrey Howe minute to MT ("Anglo/Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") ["There are still important differences of substance between the Irish position and ours"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 9 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Charles Powell minute to MT ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") [Irish dismay at absence of provision for consultation on economic and social matters, inability to agree on joint courts] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 9 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Douglas Hurd minute to MT ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") [wording of agreement: maintenance of sole executive power in Northern Ireland is essential] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 9 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Lord Hailsham minute to MT ("Anglo/Irish Agreement: Joint Courts") [Lowry thinks Northern Ireland judges would refuse to participate] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Charles Powell minute to Robert Armstrong ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") [revisions to text, negotiating position with the Irish] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Robert Armstrong minute to MT ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") [phrasing of proposed text on issues of sovereignty] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 17 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Douglas Hurd minute to MT ("Northern Ireland Electricity Generation: Conversion of Kilroot Power Station") [options for reducing oil dependence, safeguards against strikes] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 20 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Douglas Hurd minute to MT ("Northern Ireland District Council Elections: 15 May 1985") [UUP have reasserted dominance over DUP, SDLP held its ground] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 20 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: MT letter to John Hermon (deaths of RUC officers) [sympathy to families] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 21 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Lord Lowry letter to Lord Hailsham (Joint Irish Courts) [dangers of the observer proposal, would be an affront to Irish judges] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 28 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Douglas Hurd minute to MT ("Contingency Plans for a Political Strike in Northern Ireland") [government must be "in the strongest position in any trial of strength"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 28 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Hurd PS minute to Charles Powell ("The RUC and the Garda Siochana") [dispute over terrorist attack near Newry] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 29 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: John Hermon letter to MT (death of RUC officers) [thanks for condolences] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 31 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Douglas Hurd minute to MT ("Joint Irish Court") [scepticism about practicability and desirability] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Northern Ireland Office record of conversation (Hurd-Hume) [American funding initiatives, local election results, devolution, joint courts] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Northern Ireland Office record of conversation (Hurd-Molyneaux) [powers to district councils, future of Assembly, Anglo-Irish Agreement] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: UKE Dublin telegram 397 to FCO (1530Z) ("Irish Local Elections") [government fared badly but not under immediate threat] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 1 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Lord Hailsham minute to MT ("Joint Irish Court") [proposal "is likely to produce its own built in disadvantages"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Douglas Hurd minute to MT ("Northern Ireland: The Marching Season") ["The behaviour of the DUP has been a disgrace"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: BBC letter to Leon Brittan (BBC Programme "Real Lives") [withdrawal of programme] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 6 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Tim Flesher minute to MT ("BBC Board of Governors") [withdrawal of Real Lives programme] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 28 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Hurd PS minute to Biffen PS ("Ministerial Dealings with Sinn Fein Members") [any request for a meeting should be refused] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Michael Noonan letter to Douglas Hurd (court proceedings) [seizure of IRA money] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Michael Heseltine minute to Tom King ("Contingency Plans for a Political Strike in Northern Ireland") [possibility of reinforcement from outside Northern Ireland, situation in prisons] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Hurd PS minute to Mark Addison ("Proposed BBC Programme 'Real Lives'") [media should not give "gratuitous publicity to terrorists"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Tom King minute to Michael Heseltine ("Contingency Plans for a Political Strike in Northern Ireland") [replacement of striking prison officers] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Sep 30 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Douglas Hurd minute to Tom King ("Contingency Plans for a Political Strike in Northern Ireland") [replacement of striking prison officers] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Oct 1 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Charles Powell note to MT (Dominic McGlinchey) [possible release on appeal and re-arrest] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 17 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Tom King minute to Michael Heseltine ("The Police Building Programme in Northern Ireland") [PIRA attempts to intimidate building contractors who carry out work for security forces] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 20 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Michael Heseltine minute to MT ("Infantry Reinforcements for Northern Ireland") [proposed deployment of additional battalion, background of PIRA violence] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 20 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Michael Alison minute to Nigel Wicks (situation in Northern Ireland) [King apprehensive about situation deteriorating, feeling vulnerable and isolated] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 22 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: FCO telegram 957 to UKE Dublin (1715Z) ("Chief Constable's Alleged Statement") [wish to assure Irish government of commitment to continuing and developing cooperation] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 23 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Cabinet Office minute to Heseltine PS ("Infantry Reinforcements for Northern Ireland") [could temporary nature of reinforcement allow it to be disguised] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 24 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Michael Heseltine minute to Tom King ("The Police Building Programme in Northern Ireland") [can make a start on replacing bombed buildings] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Dec 24 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Mark Addison minute to MT (arms shipment) [shipment from the Netherlands to Ireland] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Tom King minute to George Younger ("The Police Building Programme in Northern Ireland") [completion of projects will demonstrate government's determination to overcome PIRA campaign] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Younger PS minute to Tebbit PS ("Infantry Reinforcements for Northern Ireland") [providing RUC support without an unacceptable level of strain on armed forces already serving] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Jan 16 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: UKREP The Hague telegram 27 to FCO (1715Z) ("Arrest of Suspected IRA Terrorists in Amsterdam") [arrest of two men who escaped from The Maze] [declassified 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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