Search

Search

Subject: Defence (Falklands).

Refine this search

Browse PM’s files

Showing items 1 - 50 of 8992.
PDF 71 Aug 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Falklands: Exchange of Notes between HMG and Argentine Government ("Communications between the Falkland Islands and the Argentine Mainland") [MT copy of 1971 White Paper] [released 2013]
PDF 77 Feb 23 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Shadow Cabinet: Minutes of 152nd Meeting
PDF 77 Feb 24 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Falklands: MT letter to Michael Clark Hutchinson MP ("we are all very conscious of the implications of the Rowlands talks ... difficult to see any worthwhile economic development ... without some Argentinian involvement") [released 2003]
PDF 78 Aug 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Ronnie Millar MSS) MT: MT to Ronnie Millar (seeing Evita ) [“if they can do that without any ideals ...”]
PDF 79 Jan 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Rowlands minute to Owen ("Falkland Islands: Anglo/Argentine Negotiations in Geneva from 18-20 December") [account of talks] [declassified 2012]
PDF 79 Jan 7 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO record of conversation (Ted Rowlands MP-Falklands Councillors) [Southern Thule incident, maritime co-operation with Argentia, internal Falklands matters] [declassified 2012]
PDF 79 Jan 13 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Port Stanley to FCO ("Minister's Meeting with Falkland Island Councillors: Draft Agreement on Scientific Activity in the Dependencies") [proposed agreement "met with a negative response"] [declassified 2012]
PDF 79 Mar 13 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Owen minute to Callaghan ("Falkland Islands: Anglo/Argentine Negotiations") [account of talks] [declassified 2012]
PDF 79 Mar 14 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: No.10 letter to FCO ("Falkland Islands") [Callaghan accepts Owen's advice on handling next round of Falklands talks] [declassified 2012]
PDF 79 Mar 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Sindall note ("Falklands: File Note") ["no prospect of selling any Falklands settlement to Parliament or the Islanders given their present view of the dispute with Argentina"] [declassified 2012]
PDF 79 Mar 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO record of Anglo-Argentine Negotiations on the Falkland Islands in New York (21-23 March 1979) [declassified 2012]
PDF 79 Mar 23 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKMIS New York telegram to FCO (2232Z) ("Anglo-Argentine Talks on the Falkland Islands: New York 21-23 March") ["cordial, difficult, but on the whole successful"] [declassified 2012]
PDF 79 May 2 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Parsons record of conversation (Parsons-Martinez de Hoz: the Falkland Islands) [declassified 2012]
PDF 79 May 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Ure briefing for Ridley ("Falkland Islands") [declassified 2012]
PDF 79 May 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Ure minute for Nick Ridley ("Falkland Islands") [background briefing on Falklands dispute] [declassified 2012]
PDF 79 May 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Parsons minute to Ridley's PS ("The Falkland Islands") [sceptical of leaseback, in light of Arab-Israeli experience, "tidy solutions" do not always exist] [declassified 2012]
PDF 79 May 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Hall minute for Nick Ridley ("Falkland Islands") [options for future policy] [declassified 2012]
PDF 79 May 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Nick Ridley minute to Ure ("Falkland Islands") [Ridley's comments on options for future policy] [declassified 2012]
PDF 79 May 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: George Hall minute to Parsons ("Falkland Islands") [response to his doubts about leaseback] [declassified 2012]
PDF 79 May 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (State Department) Falklands: USE Buenos Aires airgram to the State Department ("The Malvinas (Falkland) Islands: A Political and Social Review") [predicts negotiations will eventually secure the islands for Argentina and end "Britain's admittedly anachronistic colonial rule"] [published 2015]
PDF 79 May 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO record of conversation (Ridley, officials) ["it would be a mistake for the new Government to hedge or prevaricate further with the Argentines who knew we had been doing so in the past"] [declassified 2012]
PDF 79 May 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Ure minute to Ridley's PS ("Falklands/Antarctic Resources") [oil & fishing] [declassified 2012]
PDF 79 May 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Hall letter for Carless ("UK/Argentine Relations") [declassified 2012]
PDF 79 May 29 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Buenos Aires telegram to FCO ("Anglo-Argentine Relations: Falklands") [Cavandoli requesting a meeting with Ridley] [declassified 2012]
PDF 79 May 30 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Parsons minute for Ridley ("Falkland Islands") [warns that MT called Begin's West Bank proposal an "unknown constitutional animal"; relevant to leaseback] [declassified 2012]
PDF 79 Jun 4 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Ridley minute for Carrington ("Argentina and the Falkland Islands") [declassified 2012]
PDF 79 Jun 4 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Nick Ridley minute to Carrington ("Argentina and the Falkland Islands") [negotiation with Argentina "the only valid option"] [declassified 2012]
PDF 79 Jun 7 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Buenos Aires telegram to FCO ("Cavandoli") [declassified 2012]
PDF 79 Jun 7 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Ure minute to Ridley's PS ("Falkland Islands: Parliamentary Exchanges") [declassified 2012]
PDF 79 Jun 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO to Carless ("UK-Argentine Relations") [Carrington does "not want to have to deal with [Falklands dispute] for the foreseeable future"] [declassified 2012]
PDF 79 Jun 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Hall letter to Carless ("UK/Argentine Relations") [declassified 2012]
Info only 79 Jul 20 Fr Chronology Key [Chronology] Falklands: Ridley's first visit, floats leaseback (ended 26 Jul)
PDF 79 Jul 21 Sa Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO record of conversation (Nicholas Ridley, Falkland Island Councillors) [taxation, agriculture, oil industry, nationality, cooperation with Argentina] [declassified 2012]
PDF 79 Jul 25 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO record of conversation (Nicholas Ridley, Falkland Island Councillors) [dispute with Argentina on agriculture; shortage of capital in the Islands; the labour shortage] [declassified 2012]
PDF 79 Jul 26 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO record of conversation (Ridley, Cavandoli) [the restoration of Ambassadors & Argentine-British bilateral relations] [declassified 2012]
PDF 79 Jul 26 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO record of conversation (Ridley, Dr Martinez de Hoz) [possible solutions to sovereignty issue; nuclear power contracts] [declassified 2012]
PDF 79 Jul 26 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Governor Parker telegram to UKE Buenos Aires ("Financial Times Article") [declassified 2012]
PDF 79 Jul 26 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO to Port Stanley ("Article in Financial Times") [report on leaseback proposal] [declassified 2012]
PDF 79 Jul 27 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO record of conversation (Ridley, Cavandoli) [Vietnamese refugees & the Geneva Conference; British-Argentine bilateral relations] [declassified 2012]
PDF 79 Jul 31 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO South America Department minute to Wall ("Falklands Papers") [key papers on the Falklands dispute] [declassified 2012]
PDF 79 Aug 7 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Falklands Governor Jim Parker despatch to Carrington ("The Minister of State's Visit to the Falkland Islands: 20-26 July 1979 ") [account of Ridley's first visit] [declassified 2012]
PDF 79 Aug 8 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UK Charge d'Affaires Buenos Aires despatch to Carrington ("Visit of the Honorable Nicholas Ridley MP, Minister of State at the FCO, to Argentina: July 1979 ") [restoration of Ambassadorial relations] [declassified 2012]
PDF 79 Aug 10 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Beale minute to Legal Advisers (British attitudes towards Indonesia's forcible incorporation of East Timor) [declassified 2012]
PDF 79 Aug 17 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Ure minute to Hall ("Falkland Islands") [recommended next moves in dispute with Argentina] [declassified 2012]
PDF 79 Aug 28 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO record of conversation (Ridley, Falkland Islands Committee) [councillors supported further conversations with Argentina] [declassified 2012]
PDF 79 Aug 30 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO record of conversation (Ridley's office meeting) [economic policy towards the Falklands] [declassified 2012]
PDF 79 Aug 30 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Wall minute to Duggan ("Falkland Islands") [Carrington requests more detail on leaseback scheme] [declassified 2012]
PDF 79 Sep 1 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO paper for OD ("Falkland Islands") [draft Carrington paper] [declassified 2012]
PDF 79 Sep 4 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Hall minute to Ridley ("Falkland Islands") [declassified 2012]
PDF 79 Sep 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO record of telephone conversation (Ridley, Blanco) [Argentine aide-memoire: future of the Falklands] [declassified 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.

Legend

  • Full Text Full text on site
  • PDF PDF
  • Photo Photo
  • Video Video
  • Audio Audio
  • Info Only Info only (no text available)
  • CD Only Text on CD only