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PDF 86 Jan 29 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Westland: MT letter to Robin Butler (thanks for help) [“we have lived through a nightmare … it will be a relief to get back to normal problems”] [released Jan 2017]
PDF 86 Jan 31 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Ingham minute for MT ("The Weekend Press") [“I said that the Westlands business had been damaging but that it had not done Labour much good either”] [released Jan 2017]
PDF 86 Feb 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Ingham minute for MT ("Panorama Interview") [“show the public that you are still fit and well, in charge, and as determined as ever”] [released Jan 2017]
PDF 86 Feb 20 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservatism: Ingham minute for MT ("Language/Vision") [“your domination of politics and intellectual argument - need to maintain flow of ideas and for "new and more appealing language … the, to you, hateful word 'vision'”] [released Jan 2017]
PDF 86 Mar 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservatism: Sherbourne conversation record ("Note following the meeting on Central Council speech") ["We have moved the whole centre of politics"] [released Jan 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservatism: Griffiths minute for MT ("The 1979 and 1983 Manifestoes") [comparison for Chequers strategy meeting] [released Jan 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 13 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservatism: MT notes on conversation (Chequers strategy meeting) ["Lost sense of direction. Economic success - not enough … Restore the faith - best defence"] [released Jan 2017]
PDF 86 Apr 13 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservatism: MT letter to John Wakeham (thanks for dinner with whips) ["It was so relaxed but I felt we all learned from it more than any other and that we really are a winning team"] [released Jan 2017]
PDF 86 Jun 19 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservatism: Norgrove minute for Wicks ("Trips") [MT should visit "the failures and the run-down areas", not solely "successful factories, new hospitals or strongly Conservative areas"] [released Jan 2017]
PDF 86 Jul 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Ingham note for the record ("Presentation: human interest stories") [action points following Press Office meeting] [released Jan 2017]
PDF 86 Aug 24 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservatism: Bill Davis memo for MT ("The "Caring" Theme") [seventeen aspects] [released Jan 2017]
PDF 86 Oct 2 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservatism: Ingham minute for MT ("Your speech: further ideas") [seven points to bring out] [released Jan 2017]
PDF 86 Oct 4 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservatism: MT draft speech (party conference) [heavily annotated first draft] [released Jan 2017]
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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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