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PDF 88 Mar 29 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Poland: Professor Zbigniew Pelczynski letter to No.10 (Prime Minister’s visit to Poland) [copy of his lecture on postwar Polish history] [declassified 2016]
PDF 88 Apr 14 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Poland: No.10 Policy Unit minute to Powell (Prime Minister's visit to Poland) [copy of 1982 McCallum lecture on postwar Polish history] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Jun 26 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Poland: Chairman of the British Overseas Trade Board letter to MT ("Poland") ["the Poles.. would like to see... trade progress during your visit"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Jul 14 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Poland: MT letter to General Jaruzelski (visit to Poland) ["I want my visit to mark a step forward... I am convinced that a brief visit to Gdansk would capture the imagination of literally millions of people"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Jul 25 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Poland: No.10 letter to Howe PS (Prime Minister’s visit to Poland) [possible MT visit to Gdansk - information on Polish government views from Guardian journalist [declassified 2016]
PDF 88 Aug 4 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Poland: General Jaruzelski letter to MT (Prime Minister’s visit to Poland) [agrees she visit Gdansk; joint wreathlaying at Westerplatte] [declassified 2016]
PDF 88 Aug 10 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Poland: Charles Powell minute to MT ("Visit to Poland") ["FCO's approach is unnecessarily defeatist (you will recall that they advised against trying to get to Gdansk at all). Now we have won Polish agreement that you should go there, we need to negotiate just as firmly for a satisfactory programme"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Aug 10 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Poland: Nicholas Bethell letter to MT (Prime Minister’s visit to Poland) [suggestions for Gdansk itinerary] [declassified 2016]
PDF 88 Aug 12 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Poland: Howe PS letter to No.10 (“Prime Minister’s visit to Poland”) [opening of the British Council new cinema and exhibition hall] [declassified 2016]
PDF 88 Aug 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Poland: UKE Warsaw telegram to FCO ("Poland: implications of unrest for Prime Minister's visit") ["Latest troubles... could call in question the basis for the visit"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Aug 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Poland: UKE Warsaw telegram to FCO (“Prime Minister’s visit to Poland”) [programme] [declassified 2016]
PDF 88 Sep 1 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Poland: Baroness Cox letter to MT (religious education in schools & visit to Poland) ["appalling shortages of medicines and medical equipment"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Sep 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Poland: No.10 letter to Howe PS ("Prime Minister's visit to Poland") [negotiation of programme for the visit, including Westerplatte & Gdansk shipyard workers' memorial, meeting with Archbishop Dabrowski, and 'walkabouts' to engage with members of public] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Sep 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Poland: Howe PS letter to No.10 (“Prime Minister’s visit to Poland”) [programme] [declassified 2016]
PDF 88 Sep 14 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Poland: No.10 record of conversation (Robert Maxwell visit to Poland to meet with General Jaruzelski) [Charles Powell, Robert Maxwell] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Sep 14 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Poland: Fowler PS letter to No.10 (Prime Minister’s visit to Poland) [benefits of a small firms sector] [declassified 2016]
PDF 88 Sep 20 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Poland: FCO Eastern European Department minute to Howe PS (“Prime Minister’s visit to Poland”) [No.10 confused by Polish Ambassador request for meeting already confirmed, and FCO notes that he appears to distrust his own staff] [declassified 2016]
PDF 88 Sep 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Poland: No.10 note for file (Robert Maxwell meeting with General Jaruzelski: points to make) [passed on orally] [declassified 2016]
PDF 88 Sep 21 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Poland: Polish Ambassador letter to No.10 (meeting with the Prime Minister) [declassified 2016]
PDF 88 Sep 22 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Poland: Howe PS letter to No.10 (“Prime Minister’s visit to Poland: UK economic and financial policy”) [“present situation in Poland does not justify substantial… support”] [declassified 2016]
PDF 88 Sep 25 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Poland: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Robert Maxwell) ["Prime Minister's visit to Poland": Maxwell's account of meeting with Jaruzelski - "the West had as good as won the Cold War... [MT] visit could "not come at a more propitious time""] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Sep 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Poland: UKE Warsaw telegram to FCO ("Poland: Prime Minister's visit: meeting with Church") [MT to meet with Bishop Dabrowski in Cardinal Glemp's absence, but hopeful that Glemp will still be available for revised date] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Sep 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Poland: No.10 record of conversation (Charles Powell, Lord Bethell, Janusz Onyszkiewicz) [MT visit to Poland] [declassified 2016]
PDF 88 Sep 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Poland: Chancellor of the Exchequer PS letter to No.10 ("Prime Minister's visit to Poland: UK economic and financial policy") ["any offer of financial support at this stage would be likely to weaken pressure on the Polish Government to strengthen its efforts at both political and economic reform"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Oct 4 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Poland: Fowler PS briefing to Howe PS (small firms) [MT visit to Poland] [declassified 2016]
PDF 88 Oct 6 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Poland: MT letter to Lord Jellicoe (UK industry ventures in Poland & economic aid) [MT: "Clearly my visit will be a chance to assess prospects for any improvement both in terms of economic performance and of political liberalisation, which I see as interlinked"; MT response to project proposals] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Oct 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Poland: Charles Powell minute to MT ("Visit to Poland") [articles on Poland] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Oct 17 Mo Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Margaret Thatcher Powell minute for MT (draft of written interview for Polityka) [Polish magazine] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Oct 18 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Poland: No.10 letter to FCO ("Prime Minister's interview with "Polityka"") [written answers] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Oct 20 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Poland: Chairman of the British Council letter to MT (British Council aims & activities in Poland) [declassified 2016]
PDF 88 Oct 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Poland: FCO briefing for MT ("Prime Minister's visit to Poland") [MT meeting with Ambassador Gertych in advance of visit] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Oct 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Poland: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe) [MT visit to Poland: - need to offer Poles something "on the economic front"] [declassified 2016]
PDF 88 Oct 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Poland: Howe PS letter to No.10 (“Prime Minister’s visit to Poland: consultation with the Pope”) [declassified 2016]
PDF 88 Oct 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Poland: No.10 briefing for MT (“Meeting with The Polish Ambassador”) ["courteous and old-fashioned … extremely difficult to understand a word he says"] declassified 2016]
PDF 88 Oct 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Poland: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Ambassador Gertych) [forthcoming visit to Poland; MT's "highest priority... to meet as many people as possible"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Oct 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Poland: FCO briefing for MT ("Prime Minister's visit to Poland: 2-4 November 1988") [objectives; background] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Oct 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Poland: Lord Bethell PS letter to No.10 (Prime Minister's visit to Poland: 2-4 November 1988) [sensitivities regarding discussion of WWII; Poland to participate for first time in Remembrance Day parade] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Oct 28 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Poland: Charles Powell briefing for MT ("Visit to Poland") ["a cynical and intellectually bankrupt regime which knows it has no popular support"; "Our aim is that, as was the case with your visit to the Soviet Union, Poland should never be quite the same place again... Your visit comes at a very difficult juncture in Poland's affairs"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Oct 28 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Poland: Baker minute to MT ("Your visit to Poland") [exchange proposals arising from his meeting with new Polish Minister for Education] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Oct 28 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Poland: Howe PS letter to No.10 (“Prime Minister’s visit to Poland: quotation from Shakespeare”) [“There is a tide in the affairs of men…”] [declassified 2016]
PDF 88 Oct 31 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Poland: Fighting Solidarity letter to MT (Prime Minister's visit to Poland) [petition for the release of political prisoners] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Oct 31 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Poland: UKE Warsaw telegram to FCO ("Closure of Lenin Shipyard") ["Statement by Walesa emphasises political nature of closure of Solidarity's birthplace. No call for strikes"; MT comments on draft press line for UK govt response] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Oct 31 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Poland: UKE Washington telegram 2628 to FCO (2330Z) ("US/Poland") [US "shared some of Solidarity's concern that Rakowski may be intending to back away from the round-table process and to develop and economic plan that might be attractive to some of the Europeans"] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Oct 31 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Poland: Charles Powell minute to MT ("Visit to Poland") [press coverage in advance of visit, including Jaruzelski interview] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Oct 31 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Poland: Charles Powell minute to MT ("Visit to Poland") [closure of Lenin shipyard] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Oct 31 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Poland: No.10 letter to Howe PS (Christian Samaritan Foundation) [request for advice on how to respond to Foundation's request for help] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Oct 31 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Poland: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Prime Minister's visit to Poland") [management training assistance] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Oct 31 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Poland: UK Ambassador to Holy See record of conversation ("Prime Minister's visit to Poland") [John Broadley, Archbishop Colassuono: MT message to Pope, and Vatican response] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Oct 31 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Poland: Julian Amery MP letter to MT (Prime Minister's visit to Poland) [relations between western Europe and East Europe] [declassified Jul 2016]
PDF 88 Oct 31 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Poland: Howe PS letter to No.10 (“Prime Minister’s visit to Poland”) [management training] [declassified 2016]

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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