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PDF 89 Jan 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: No.10 record of conversation ("Mr. Gorbachev's Visit") [Charles Powell, Kossov: "the problem lies in untying the knot between his visit here and his visit to Cuba"] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Jan 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Soros Foundation letter to No.10 (Open Sector Initiative) [Charles Powell impressed by Soros/Pembroke College proposal for scheme to aid restructuring of Soviet economy; brings to the attention of MT] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Jan 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Soros Foundation letter to No.10 (Gorbachev's Vision) [Soros article: "Its conclusions are alarming in their naivety" - MT] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Jan 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: No.10 briefing for MT ("Hanson Industries: Soviet Union") [management training for Soviet industrialists] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Jan 10 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: No.10 record of conversation ("Visit of President Gorbachev") [Charles Powell, Kossov: "no firm news of Mr Gorbachev's plans"] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Jan 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: No.10 record of conversation ("Sir Gordon White") [Charles Powell, Gordon White: management training for Soviet industrialists] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Jan 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Charles Powell minute to MT (Mr Gorbachev's Visit to the UK) [proposed dates: 5-7 April] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Jan 20 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: UKE Moscow telegram 91 to FCO (1655Z) ("Mr Gorbachev's Visit") [programme; timing of announcement] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Jan 20 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: UKE Moscow telegram 92 to FCO (1723Z) ("Preparations for Gorbachev's Visit") [agenda] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Jan 25 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe) ["Mr. Gorbachev's Visit": programme/agenda] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Jan 28 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: No.10 record of conversation ("Mr. Gorbachev's Visit") [Charles Powell, Kossov: announcements] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Jan 30 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Mr. Gorbachev's Visit: the Queen") [invitation to visit USSR] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Feb 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: No.10 record of conversation ("Mr. Gorbachev's Visit") [Charles Powell, Kossov: offer of credit from British banks; trade; invitation to Queen to visit USSR; media interviews] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Feb 6 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: President of the CBI letter to Lord Young (Mr Gorbachev's Visit to UK) [offer of CBI facilities for meeting with businessmen] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Feb 7 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Visit by Mr Gorbachev: Address to both Houses of Parliament") [FCO advice on proposal] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Feb 8 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Ambassador Braithwaite) ["Programme for Mr. Gorbachev's Visit"] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Feb 9 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Visit of Mr Gorbachev") [Howe's advice on University of Sussex proposal to award Gorbachev an honorary degree] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Feb 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Denis Thatcher letter to Charles Powell ("Re: Gorbachev Dinner") [nomination for guest list] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Feb 13 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Charles Powell to FCO ("Mr. Gorbachev's visit") [Soviet diplomat worried that Gorbachev would be meeting HMQ at Windsor Castle rather than Buckingham Palace; Powell "really urged him not to make an issue out of this"] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Feb 17 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Programme for Mr Gorbachev's Visit") [Soviet comments on draft programme; draft telegram of instructions to UKE Moscow; Soviet concerns about venue for lunch with Queen] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Feb 17 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Soviet Studies Research Centre letter to No.10 (Rescheduled Visit of Mr Gorbachev to the UK) [Chris Donnelly response to No.10 request for update on his thoughts ] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Feb 20 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: MT letter to Editor-in-Chief of 'Izvestia' (request for interview) [MT agrees to be interviewed, based on her understanding that Gorbachev will do interview with 'The Times' newspaper] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Feb 22 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: UKE Moscow telegram 332 to FCO (1730Z) ("Mr Gorbachev's Visit to the UK") [Soviet comments on programme] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Feb 24 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Powell minute for MT (interview for Ogonyok) [urges her to leave theme of UK-Soviet relations till later interview; make this "racy and daring ... focussing much more in our politics and you personally"] [declassified Jul 2018]
PDF 89 Mar 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Kenneth Warren MP letter to No.10 ("President Gorbachev's Visit") [proposal that Gorbachev address both Houses of Parliament] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Mar 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: No.10 record of conversation ("Mr Gorbachev's Visit") [Charles Powell, Ambassador Zamyatin: programme] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Mar 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Charles Powell minute to MT ("Mr Gorbachev's Visit") [Soviet-approved programme] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Mar 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: UKE Moscow telegram 407 to FCO (1513Z) ("Visit of Mr and Mrs Gorbachev") [Soviet draft of programme] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Mar 6 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Powell conversation record (CDP-Andrei Vavilov) ["He thought we underestimated Yeltsin, who was far from being a spent force"] [declassified Jul 2018]
PDF 89 Mar 6 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Powell conversation record (MT-Director-General of the Security Service) [planned expulsion of Soviet and Czech spies - timing, tactics; MT favours "handling ... as discreetly as possible"] [declassified Jul 2018]
PDF 89 Mar 10 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Gorbachev Visit: The Queen's Lunch") [guest list] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Mar 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: No.10 record of conversations ("Mr. Gorbachev's Visit: Interview") [Charles Powell, Kossov: Gorbachev pulling out of agreement to do 'Times' interview, and No.10 response] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Mar 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Howe PS letter to Lord Young PS ("Mr. Gorbachev's Visit") [Celltech of Slough, and alternative industry candidates better-suited to Gorbachev's desire to meet with working class employees] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Mar 15 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Howe letter to Robert Maxwell (Exhibition of Contemporary Soviet Culture) [arranged to coincide with Gorbachev's visit to UK] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Mar 15 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Lord Thomas letter to MT (Stalin and Glasnost: A Talk by General Volkogonov) [Centre for Policy Studies: "to my knowledge this was the first time that such an attack [on Stalin] has been mounted by a Soviet spokesman"] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Mar 17 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Mr Gorbachev's Interview with the Times") [background to Gorbachev's decision to pull out of interview; possibility of MT cancelling 'Izvestia' interview] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Mar 17 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: No.10 record of conversation ("Mr Gorbachev's Interview with the Times") [Charles Powell, Kossov: ongoing uncertainty as to whether Gorbachev interview and MT 'Izvestia' interview to go ahead] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Mar 18 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: FCO telegram 381 to UKE Moscow (0600Z) ("Gorbachev Interview with the Times") [Gorbachev no longer prepared to commit to substantial press interview; Soviets acknowledge MT may not wish to proceedw with 'Izvestia' interview] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Mar 18 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: No.10 record of conversation ("Mr. Gorbachev's Interview with the Times") [Charles Powell, Kossov: Gorbachev no longer prepared to commit to substantial press interview; Soviets acknowledge MT may not wish to proceedw with 'Izvestia' interview] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Mar 18 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Charles Powell minute to MT ("Mr. Gorbachev's Visit: Interviews") [Gorbachev no longer prepared to commit to substantial press interview; MT agrees to proceedw with 'Izvestia' interview] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Mar 19 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Charles Powell minute to MT ("Mr. Gorbachev's Visit") [key issues; desired outcomes; toasts/speeches; practical aspects of the visit] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Mar 19 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: No.10 letter to FCO ("Mr. Gorbachev and the Times") [MT to go ahead with 'Izvestia' interview, despite Gorbachev cancelling his 'Times' interview] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Mar 19 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Powell briefing for MT ("Mr. Gorbachev's visit") [issues to be covered; his third visit to Britain, "we are seen as favoured"] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Mar 20 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Howe PS letter to No.10 (Mr. Gorbachev's Visit to the UK) [joint document signing ceremony] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Mar 20 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: No.10 letter to Howe PS letter ("Mr. Gorbachev's Visit") [key concerns; lines to take; MT Guildhall dinner speech] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Mar 21 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: No.10 briefing for MT ("Interview with Izvestia") [released Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Mar 21 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: MT letter to Kenneth Warren MP (Mr Gorbachev's visit to the UK) [thanks Warren for his information on Soviet attitudes] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Mar 23 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Mr Gorbachev's Visit") [programme] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Mar 23 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: No.10 letter to Howe PS (Mr Gorbachev's Visit to the UK) ["programme note on the Prime Minister for... Gorbachev's Guildhall speech"] [released Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Mar 24 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Charles Powell minute to MT ("Soviet Military Policy") [papers by Chris Donnelly and Ken Bower; MT: "Both fascinating papers"] [released Dec 2016]

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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