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Text 81 Jan 1 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (Walters MSS) Alan Walters diary (1981) [whole year transcribed as a single document] [released 2013]
Text 81 Feb 20 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [prepares “facing disaster” manuscript; PSBR rising] [released 2012]
Text 81 Feb 22 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [MT “very uncertain of herself”; did not want to discuss budget and had not read paper] [released 2012]
Text 81 Mar 2 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [Walters annoyed; Gow did not stop talk - “probably MT’s paranoia about Press”] [released 2012]
Text 81 Mar 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [failing to face reality, no strategic thinking - “we have to persuade MT all the disasters were avoidable”] [released 2012]
Text 81 Mar 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [failing to face reality, no strategic thinking - “we have to persuade MT all the disasters were avoidable”][released 2012]
Text 81 Mar 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [“shambles of govt”; ”genuine confusion, especially Lamont, about where we were going”] [released 2012]
Text 81 Mar 10 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget speech) [“Budget speech - all hell breaks loose, the wets are up in arms - we’ll have a hot summer!”] [released 2012]
Text 81 Mar 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [sent Howe congratulatory note on budget; he was very pleased; “it WAS very courageous”] [released 2012]
Text 81 Mar 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [Discussed budget strategy with Hoskyns] [released 2012]
Text 81 Mar 13 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [364 economists write to The Times] [released 2012]
Text 81 Mar 16 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [budget leak; petrol tax revolts continues - “really rather silly”] [released 2012]
Text 81 Mar 18 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [Walters not invited to meeting; Burns claimed credit for budget switch; “Am I in the dog house?”] [released 2012]
Text 81 Mar 19 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (public spending) [ICL discussions - “Keith got away with it”] [released 2012]
Text 81 Mar 20 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [MT “irate about Niehans - thought it would be used to kill GH”; argued “but she would not yield”] [released 2012]
Text 81 Mar 22 Su Declassified documents Minor Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (relations with Howe) [Howe’s wife annoyed Walters is in No.10 and not under Howe] [released 2012]
Text 81 Mar 23 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (Railway Electrification) [“Railway Electrication is a dreadful mess”; Howe upset by Hoskyns letter] [released 2012]
Text 81 Mar 25 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (CBI) [Beckett “still all gloom & disaster”] [released 2012]
Text 81 Mar 26 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (CSO, Railway Electrification) [many doubts on electrification] [released 2012]
Text 81 Mar 27 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (British Rail) [BR meeting - “Little or no substantive work”; plans locked up in vault] [released 2012]
Text 81 Mar 30 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget, BAA, BT) [possibility of privatising BAA; meeting with Howe; 364 economists letter] [released 2012]
Text 81 Mar 31 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (Treasury) [Wolfson & Walters agree “we must attack the Treasury position”; Lawson worried about Wass & “latent Keynesianism”] [released 2012]
Text 81 Apr 1 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (MT) [“PM very bossy - she would be much more effective if she was more relaxed”; writes Howe “explaining why Keynes was useful now!”] [released 2012]
Text 81 Apr 2 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (Railway Electrification) [Electrification Review] [released 2012]
Text 81 Apr 4 Sa Declassified documents Trivial Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (weekend) [Gorman visit; Walters tired] [released 2012]
Text 81 Apr 6 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (Railway Electrification) [Railway Electrification; Prior defence of wage councils awful] [released 2012]
Text 81 Apr 7 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (Energy pricing) [PM shouts at Walters, but seems to be moving in right direction] [released 2012]
Text 81 Apr 8 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (lunch with Burns) [MLR rate cut, rail strike postponed, wage councils] [released 2012]
Text 81 Apr 9 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget; exchange rate) [Bray tried to induce Walters to criticise exchange rate; told Anderson budget was right] [released 2012]
Text 81 Apr 11 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [good article in Spectator responding to 364 economists] [released 2012]
Text 81 Apr 12 Su Declassified documents Minor Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (events) [reports of Brixton riots, Sherman dinner] [released 2012]
Text 81 Apr 13 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (railways) [PM commits herself to present size of passenger network “quite stupidly”; lunch with Scott - “appears to be genuine idiot”] [released 2012]
Text 81 Apr 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (Railways) [committee on railways] [released 2012]
Text 81 Apr 15 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (union reform) [Howe & Hoskyns plan “to get TU reform going without Jim Prior getting upset”] [released 2012]
Text 81 Apr 21 Tu Declassified documents Trivial Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (public spending) [lunch with CBI man & Wolfson] [released 2012]
Text 81 Apr 27 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [discussions with Howe over M3] [released 2012]
Text 81 Apr 28 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (nationalised industries) [Howe criticises Walters’ suggestions for BT financing] [released 2012]
Text 81 Apr 28 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [Howe criticises Walters’ suggestions for BT financing] [released 2012]
Text 81 Apr 29 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (public spending) [US programme to reduce public spending; “everyone’s ox is gored”] [released 2012]
Text 81 May 5 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [day’s engagements][released 2012]
Text 81 May 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (exchange rate) [Emmanuel Kaye wants a 1931-style devaluation] [released 2012]
Text 81 May 11 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (Gas pipeline) [Wolfson talked about 2 billion pound gas pipeline - Walters suggests private leasing arrangement][released 2012]
Text 81 May 12 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (election strategy, bduget) [election strategy meeting; Massey Ferguson boss congratulates Walters on budget] [released 2012]
Text 81 May 13 We Declassified documents Key Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [Middleton says Wass & Ryrie opposed £1b extra tax in budget; Brittan and Howe agreed with their view that “you must not put interest rates down if you had to put them up again!!”] [released 2012]
Text 81 May 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [Salomon visit “bank profit tax is retrospective and immoral”][released 2012]
Text 81 May 21 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [French economists awful but Salin good][released 2012]
Text 81 May 22 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [Dicks-Mireaux met in Aix, does not trust strategy][released 2012]
Text 81 May 26 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (Railway Electrification) [CPRS meeting - revising everything downward; “all my conjectures were correct”][released 2012]
Text 81 May 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [gives lecture to “very unresponsive lot of civil servants"][released 2012]
Text 81 May 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Walters MSS) Economy: Alan Walters diary (budget) [Chequers - argued about Monetary Base Control][released 2012]

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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