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PDF 89 Apr 2 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: No.10 letter to Howe PS ("Mr. Gorbachev's Visit") [MT asks if model of proposed new UK embassy can be shown to Gorbachev] [released Dec 2017]
PDF 89 Apr 2 Su Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: No.10 letter to David Hart ("Making Sense of Gorbachev") ["Thank you very much for your papers"] [released Dec 2017]
PDF 89 Apr 3 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: FCO Protocol Department letter to No.10 ("Gorbachev Visit: Arrangements for the Press Statement at Heathrow") [released Dec 2017]
PDF 89 Apr 3 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: FCO Protocol Department letter to No.10 ("Gorbachev Visit: Demonstrations") [details of planned demonstrations & police measures] [released Dec 2017]
PDF 89 Apr 3 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Julian Amery MP letter to No.10 (Gorbachev Visit: briefing points) [Ethiopia; Aden; Mozambique] [released Dec 2017]
PDF 89 Apr 3 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Lord Young PS letter to Howe PS (Gorbachev Visit: candidates for factory visit) [released Dec 2017]
PDF 89 Apr 3 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: No.10 minute to Lord Young PS ("Mr. Gorbachev's Visit: trade matters") [released Dec 2017]
PDF 89 Apr 3 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: No.10 minute to Howe PS (message from President Bush to the Prime Minister) [Gorbachev's Visit to UK: Bush urges MT to raise issue of Central America] [released Dec 2017]
PDF 89 Apr 3 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: UKE Dublin briefing for MT (1900Z) ("Visit by President Gorbachev to Ireland") [MT to be briefed by Haughey on his talks with Gorbachev, in advance of her own meeting with Gorbachev] [released Dec 2017]
PDF 89 Apr 3 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: UKE Moscow telegram 570 to FCO (1700Z) ("Gorbachev's Visit to Britain") [political context & analysis] [released Dec 2017]
PDF 89 Apr 3 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: UKE Moscow telegram 572 to FCO (1700Z) ("Gorbachev's Visit: the Internal Scene") [analysis] [released Dec 2017]
PDF 89 Apr 3 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: UKE Moscow telegram 571 to FCO (1400Z) ("Mr Gorbachev's Visit to Britain: External and Bilateral Aspects") [analysis] [released Dec 2017]
PDF 89 Apr 4 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: FCO briefing for MT ("Mr Gorbachev's Visit") [signing ceremony: details of the three agreements to be signed, and two postponed agreements] [released Dec 2017]
PDF 89 Apr 4 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Gorbachev Visit") [printed programme & final version of administrative plan] [released Dec 2017]
PDF 89 Apr 4 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Haughey) ["Mr. Gorbachev's Visit": report of Haughey's talks with Gorbachev] [released Dec 2017]
PDF 89 Apr 4 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Charles Powell note to MT ("Meeting with Mr Gorbachev") [cover note only, for working papers] [released Dec 2017]
PDF 89 Apr 4 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Percy Cradock briefing for MT ("Gorbachev Briefs") [internal situation and Eastern Europe] [released Dec 2017]
PDF 89 Apr 4 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: UKE Moscow telegram 575 to FCO (0556Z) ("Call on I D Laptev, Editor of Izvestiya, 3 April 1989") [assessment of interview with MT, and of Soviet internal developments/election results] [released Dec 2017]
PDF 89 Apr 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Ministry of Agriculture briefing for MT (Gorbachev Visit to UK: exports of UK grain to the USSR) [released Dec 2017]
PDF 89 Apr 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: General Scowcroft message to Charles Powell (Gorbachev Visit to UK: Central America and Namibia) [conveyance of request by President Bush for points to be raised by MT in her talks with Gorbachev] [released Dec 2017]
PDF 89 Apr 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: FCO briefing for MT ("Mr Gorbachev's Visit to UK") [main briefing] [released Dec 2017]
PDF 89 Apr 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Mr Gorbachev's Visit: Lebanon") [key points to raise with Gorbachev, on current situation] [released Dec 2017]
PDF 89 Apr 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Gorbachev Visit: Bilateral Agreements") [Investment Protection; school for Armenia; visas] [released Dec 2017]
PDF 89 Apr 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Kenneth Baker PS letter to No.10 ("Gorbachev Visit: numbers of undergraduates studying Russian in UK universities") [released Dec 2017]
PDF 89 Apr 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Gorbachev) [Soviet elections; Namibia; Afghanistan; Cuba; Mozambique] [released Dec 2017]
PDF 89 Apr 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Charles Powell minute to MT ("Mr Gorbachev's Visit: Signing of Agreements") [speaking note on school for Armenia, Investment Promotion & Protection, and MoU on visa procedures] [released Dec 2017]
PDF 89 Apr 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: No.10 Social Secretary minute to Charles Powell ("Lunch at Windsor Castle Friday, 7 April") [seating plan] [released Dec 2017]
PDF 89 Apr 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: No.10 minute to MT (Gorbachev Visit to UK: signing ceremony: school for Armenia) [Kenneth Baker briefing on the model of the school, to be shown to Gorbachev after the ceremony] [released Dec 2017]
PDF 89 Apr 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: UKE Cape Town briefing for MT (1400Z) ("Prime Minister's Meeting with Mr Gorbachev: Southern Africa") [Namibia; South Africa] [released Dec 2017]
PDF 89 Apr 6 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: No.10 conversation record (MT-Gorbachev) [Introduction; International Attitudes to the Soviet Union; Perestroika; Defence and Arms Control; Regional problems; Moscow Embassy, President Bush, Central America, Namibia, etc; family unification; Royal visit to the USSR] [declassified Jul 2018]
PDF 89 Apr 6 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Gorbachev's Visit: Arrival and Departure") [review of arrangements for departure, following MT criticism of inadequate arrival arrangements] [released Dec 2017]
PDF 89 Apr 6 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: FCO briefing for MT ("President Gorbachev's Visit: Romania") [released Dec 2017]
PDF 89 Apr 6 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Richard Pollock (interpreter) record of conversation (MT, Gorbachev) [informal record of Gorbachev's side of the conversation] [released Dec 2017]
PDF 89 Apr 8 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Charles Powell message to General Scowcroft (1215Z) (Gorbachev visit to UK) [report on talks with MT: assurance that topics of Nambia & Central America were discussed, as requested] [released Dec 2017]
PDF 89 Apr 8 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Conservative Research Department paper ("Why Mr Gorbachev Came to Britain") [Charles Powell's amendments to draft] [released Dec 2017]
PDF 89 Apr 8 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: UKE Moscow telegram 613 to FCO (0800Z) ("Gorbachev Visit to UK: Soviet Media Coverage of Second Full Day") [released Dec 2017]
PDF 89 Apr 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Powell minute for MT ("Mr Gorbachev's Visit: Message to President Bush") [Powell redrafts suggested FCO text to give more impressions and conclusions] [declassified Jul 2018]
PDF 89 Apr 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Cradock minute to MT ("Gorbachev's Guildhall Speech") ["In an uninspired speech, one passage struck me, the sharp warning to NATO to drop the idea of modernising tactical nuclear weapons"; full text of speech attached] [released Dec 2017]
PDF 89 Apr 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Chairman of ICI letter to MT (Gorbachev Visit to UK) [financing for joint industrial ventures] [released Dec 2017]
PDF 89 Apr 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: National Council for Soviet Jewry letter to MT (Gorbachev Visit to UK) ["you have, with respect to President Gorbachev's visit, done everything we could have expected"] [released Dec 2017]
PDF 89 Apr 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: MT to Lord Mayor of London (Gorbachev Visit to UK) ["I should like to express formally the Government's great appreciation for... [the City of London's] generous help"] [released Dec 2017]
PDF 89 Apr 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: UKE Bonn telegram 380 to FCO (1634Z) ("Visit to London by President Gorbachev: German Press Reaction") [released Dec 2017]
PDF 89 Apr 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: UKE Bonn telegram 377 to FCO (1445Z) ("Gorbachev's Visit to London: FRG Reactions: Arms Control") [released Dec 2017]
PDF 89 Apr 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: Charles Powell minute to Howe PS ("Mr Gorbachev's Visit: Message to President Bush") [cover note only, referring to Charles Powell's reworking of FCO draft] [released Dec 2017]
PDF 89 Apr 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: MT message to Chancellor Kohl ("Mr Gorbachev's Visit") [account of talks; conclusions] [released Dec 2017]
PDF 89 Apr 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: MT message to President Mitterrand ("Mr Gorbachev's Visit") [account of talks; conclusions] [released Dec 2017]
PDF 89 Apr 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: President Gorbachev message to MT (Visit to UK) ["As usual, negotiations and personal contacts with you gave food for new thoughts and in general - for optimism"; conclusions as to key outcomes] [released Dec 2017]
PDF 89 Apr 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Ambassador Zamyatin) [impressions of Gorbachev's visit to the UK] [released Dec 2017]
PDF 89 Apr 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: UKE Bonn telegram 388 to FCO (1042Z) ("Call on Teltschik: Gorbachev's Visit and SNF") [delivery of MT message to Kohl, giving her impressions of Gorbachev's visit to the UK; German/Soviet negotiations on self-determination in Europe; SNF modernisation] [released Dec 2017]
PDF 89 Apr 16 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Soviet Union: No.10 record of conversation ("Mr Gorbachev's Visit") [Charles Powell, Kossov: Soviet criticism of UK interpreter for Howe/Shevardnadze meeting] [released Dec 2017]

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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