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PDF 89 May 12 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Walters minute to MT ("Intervention") ["trying to contain the rise of the US dollar... I can see no justification for our intervention. It had no discernable effect on the out-turn of the market"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 89 May 12 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: Walters minute to MT ("Intervention") [disapproves of Bank's policy to contain rise of US dollar] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 89 May 12 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 minute to MT ("Exchange rate management") [cover note for Walters minutes] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 89 May 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT ("Talk with Alan Walters: 17 May") [EMS; intervention & exchange rate management] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 89 May 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT ("Bilateral with the Chancellor: 17 May") [markets; informal ECOFIN Council, Delors Report follow-up] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 89 May 17 We Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: Lennox-Boyd conversation record (MT-Walters-Turnbull-Gray-Powell) [reformulating her position on ERM entry] [released Mar 2019]
PDF 89 May 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Walters minute to Turnbull ("Exchange Rate versus Monetary Targets") ["I adduce that we are not (yet?) ready for anything like a viable fixxed [sic] system... If there are free markets, the ERM will have to change radically"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 89 May 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Walters minute to Gray (research topics) [monetary union; exchange rates; corporation and economic performance] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 89 Jun 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Paul Gray minute to Alan Walters ("Funding Policy/Inflation") [reports of a change in policy; work on failure to reduce further rate of inflation] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Jun 6 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: Walters letter to Treasury (monetary policy) [misrepresentation of his views in the press] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 89 Jun 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: Walters minute to MT ("Money market assistance and funding policy") ["The Treasury's policies meet the needs of the day"] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 89 Jun 13 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT ("Bilateral with the Chancellor: 14 June") [markets; Treasury paper on causes of the present inflation] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 89 Jun 13 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Alan Walters minute to MT ("Intervention and Rates: 13 June") [ineffectiveness of today's £700m intervention; "our monetary squeeze is the right order of tightness to restore 4 per cent inflation by 1991"] [declassified Dec 2017]
PDF 89 Jun 13 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Alan Walters minute to MT ("A Chain Reaction - The Exchange Rate and Monetary Policy") ["increasingly worried about the Pavlovian reaction of our monetary policy to exchange rate movements"] [declassified Dec 2017]
PDF 89 Jun 13 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Alan Walters minute to MT ("The Causes of the Present Inflation") [critically analyses Treasury paper - "The thrust of the conclusions (ie, with all the excuses too loose a monetary policy) is correct"] [declassified Dec 2017]
PDF 89 Jun 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Powell briefing for MT ("Madrid European Council") [main issues] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Jun 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Walters minute to MT ("Germany's covert exchange control") [information requested by MT] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 89 Jun 16 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) European Policy: Powell briefing for MT ("Madrid European Council: Delors Report") [evolving UK position on ERM membership; meetings with Walters then Howe and Lawson] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Jun 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: Walters minute to MT ("Germany's covert exchange control") [MT request for details] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 89 Jun 19 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) European Policy: Powell briefing for MT ("Madrid European Council: ERM") [following meeting with Walters MT evolving her position before meeting Howe & Lawson] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Jun 20 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) European Policy: Powell minute to MT ("Madrid European Council") [proposed line to take on entry to ERM] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Jun 27 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Turnbull minute for MT ("Madrid Summit") ["Seen from London, it seems that the judgment of the Chancellor and the Foreign Secretary was faulty"] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 89 Jul 6 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Paul Gray minute to Alan Walters ("Economic Performance and Prospects") [asks for him to prepare note on sterilisation of 1987-88 intervention; what did the damage, intervention or interest rates?] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Jul 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Walters minute to Gray ("Intervention and sterilisation - 1987 - 1988") [analysis] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 89 Jul 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Walters minute to Paul Gray ("Rainforest protection - the Goldsmith proposal") ["that the industrialised countries pay Brazil etc for the service of maintaining their forests"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 89 Jul 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Walters note to MT (UK participation in the exchange rate arrangements of the European Monetary System) [letter from Willem Buiter to "The Times"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 89 Jul 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: Walters minute to No.10 ("Rainforest protection - the Goldsmith proposal") ["that the industrialised countries pay Brazil for the maintaining of their forests"] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 89 Jul 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environmental Affairs: Alan Walters minute for Gray ("Rainforest Protection - the Goldsmith idea and an alternative proposal") [proposal to set up a FORESAVE body; "this is an occasion where Britain could clearly take the initiative and lead the OECD countries" ] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Jul 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environment: Alan Walters minute to No.10 ("UK Position on an International Climate Fund") [proposed additional aid] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Jul 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Environment: Alan Walters minute to Paul Gray ("Rainforest Protection - The Goldsmith Idea and an Alternative Proposal") [pay-for-forests proposal] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Jul 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Alan Walters minute to Andrew Turnbull ("Intervention and Sterilisation - 1987-1988") ["I remain convinced that unsterilised intervention did contribute to monetary growth in 1987-88"] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Jul 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Alan Walters minute to Paul Gray ("Intervention and Sterilisation - 1987-1988") ["It is the persistence in pegging the exchange rate which is the proximate cause of the monetary expansion"] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Jul 19 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Alan Walters minute to MT ("CBI Survey") [monetary squeeze is working] [declassified Dec 2017]
PDF 89 Jul 19 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Alan Walters minute to MT ("Monetary Policy & Exchange Rate Targeting") [CPS conference on "Monetarism Lost" - intellectual climate moving against targeting exchange rates] [declassified Dec 2017]
PDF 89 Jul 25 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Alan Walters minute to MT ("Prospects for Monetary Conditions: August-September") [cannot foresee any "surprise" in store; "very unlikely" 16 percent rates would be forced on government] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Sep 9 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Turnbull minute for MT ("Models of Economic and Monetary Union") [your discussion of this paper with Lawson was at cross purposes; drawbacks of a gold or commodity standard] [declassified Jul 2018]
PDF 89 Sep 26 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT ("Meeting with Alan Walters: 27 September") [the economy; electricity privatisation; EMU] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 89 Oct 1 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Economy: Walters module for conference speech ("Draft speech for the PM: Economy") [cut in rates after Black Monday as rationalisation of current inflation, "best one to use"] [released Mar 2019]
PDF 89 Oct 2 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Walters minute ("A Strategy and Tactics for European Monetary Union") [approach based on proposal of commodity currency for Europe] [declassified Jul 2018]
PDF 89 Oct 3 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Powell minute for Walters ('EMU') [gave your note to MT; she says she has no time now, consider at end of October on return from CHOGM] [declassified Jul 2018]
PDF 89 Oct 4 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: Alan Walters minute to MT ("Interest Rates and Recession") [caught out by market expections of a Pavlovian reaction to the Dmark rate ... "a Greek tragedy"] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Oct 7 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Economy: Walters minute for MT (sends column by Andrew Alexander) [MT should have sacked Lawson in summer reshuffle] [released Mar 2019]
PDF 89 Oct 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: Alan Walters minute to MT ("Interest Rates and Recession") [interest rates at 15 percent would lead to sharp recession] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Oct 19 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Turnbull minute for MT ("Sir Alan Walters's views on EMS") [Financial Times article based on earlier interview in which Walters describes EMS as "half-baked"] [declassified Jul 2018]
PDF 89 Oct 20 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Paul Gray letter to Sir Alan Walters (his article for the American Economist) ["causing major problems here"; date of article could not be as distant as he told No.10] [declassified Jul 2018]
PDF 89 Oct 23 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: No.10 record of conversation (Paul Gray-Alan Walters) [problems caused by publicity given to his American Economist interview; "I have to say he was a little unrepentant"] [declassified Jul 2018]
PDF 89 Oct 23 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Turnbull minute for MT ("Alan Walters and EMS/EMU") [difficulty devising a line of reply to Opposition attacks] [declassified Jul 2018]
PDF 89 Oct 23 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) European Policy: Turnbull note for MT (Alan Walters article/interview) [MT: "advisers ADVISE, Ministers DECIDE policy"] [declassified Jul 2018]
PDF 89 Oct 24 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 briefing for MT ("Bilateral with the Chancellor: 25 October") [markets; public expenditure; Alan Walters' article] [declassified Jul 2017]
PDF 89 Oct 24 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) European Policy: Turnbull fax for Gray ("Sir Alan Walters and EMS/EMU") [MT interview raised the question] [declassified Jul 2018]

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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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