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PDF 84 Apr 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Howe minute to MT ("Western European Union (WEU)") ["... background and state of current discussions of the role of WEU" for Defence White Paper] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 84 Apr 25 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Defence: Heseltine minute to Biffen ("Statement of the Defence estimates 1984") [date of publication] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 84 May 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Heseltine minute to MT ("Army manpower") ["... it is my objective to make the most effective use of the very considerable resources we devote to defence"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 84 May 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Howe minute to Heseltine ("Army manpower") ["...it would be a pity... if the impact of the announcement on our Allies... were reduced by our having to point out that the figure would not be increased in practical terms"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 84 Jun 7 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Conservative Research Department briefing ("A brief for the Debate on the 1984 Defence White Paper in the House of Commons on the 18th & 19th June 1984") ["...ambitious plans for reorganisation... as well as reforms intended to improve efficiency and save money..."] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 84 Jun 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Heseltine minute to MT ("Reme Static Workshops Review") ["...a number of areas within the [MoD] which absorb significant resources, and which might offer scope for savings in cash and manpower terms... One such is the Reme Static Workshop Organisation..."] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 84 Oct 31 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Adam Butler minute to MT ("Redundancies at the Royal Ordnance factories") ["Already the Trade Unions have announced plans for 'walk out'... No doubt, this has much to do with their antipathy towards our privatisation proposals..."] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 84 Dec 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Heseltine minute to MT ("Defence Technology Transfer: Civil Spin-off") ["This will be private profit-motivated company whose function will be to... market for exploitation innovative ideas and technology arising from the work of the Defence Research Establishments] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Mar 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Statement on the Defence Estimates 1985") [No.10: "...generally uncontroversial indeed bland..." - Europe within NATO; arms control; Trident] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Mar 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Rees PS letter to Heseltine PS ("Statement on the Defence Estimates 1985") [amendments] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Mar 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: No.10 briefing for MT ("OD: 25 March") [Defence White Paper: "... [European Fighter Aircraft] the view is getting about in some quarters - including the press - that the Defence Secretary is so keen on collaboration that we may end up losing out badly on it"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Mar 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: No.10 Policy Unit briefing for MT ("Statement on the Defence Estimates, 1985") ["The statement has good points - willingness to discuss Trident, NATO and arms' control - but it misses a trick on Trident and competition, and goes over the top on European collaboration"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Mar 26 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Statement on the Defence Estimates 1985") [revisions to draft White Paper; publication] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 85 Mar 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Selwyn Gummer letter to Heseltine ("Statement on the Defence Estimates") ["...a clear re-affirmation of our Trident policy is very necessary"] [declassified Jul 2016]
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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).

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