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PDF 82 Jan 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: Kohl message to MT (elections to the Presidency of the European Parliament) [declassified 2013]
PDF 82 Jan 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer PS letter to Lady Young PS ("TSRB: economic evidence") [Top Salaries Review Body: draft submission] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 82 Jan 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: No.10 minute to MT (“Control of Staff and non-Staff Departmental running costs: presentation and reception on 24 February”) [MT-Heseltine-Brittan joint presentation] [declassified 2013]
PDF 82 Jan 19 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Government machinery: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (Central Policy Review Staff: meeting with new Chief Scientist, Dr. Robin Nicholson) [introduction for MT] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 82 Jan 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: Conservative Party International Office note (“Note on the Elections to the Presidency of the European Parliament, Tuesday 19 January 1982”) [declassified 2013]
PDF 82 Jan 21 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: No.10 letter to Ministerial Private Secretaries ("CPRS work programme 1982") [details] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 82 Jan 21 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Appointments: Department of Employment letter to No.10 ("Appointment of Special Adviser") [appointment of Michael Dobbs] [declassified 2013]
PDF 82 Jan 22 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Local government: Fowler PS letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer PS ("Financial accountability of Health Authorities") ["terms of an announcement... [Fowler] is making today"] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 82 Jan 22 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Armstrong minute to Coles (Anglo-Irish Intergovernmental Council) [MT note: “Agreed - but as a final check - could Ian (Gow) look at the Joint Memorandum for sensitive points”] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Jan 22 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: Coles minute to MT (“Visit of Dr. Kohl”) [briefing attached] [declassified 2013]
PDF 82 Jan 25 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Kohl) [Western Alliance, relations with the US, political situation in Germany, East-West relations] [declassified 2013]
PDF 82 Jan 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Germany: Treasury record of conversation (Howe-Kohl) [relations with German Christian Democratic Union, preservation of liberal economic system] [declassified 2013]
PDF 82 Jan 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic policy: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT (“Forthcoming announcements”) [Autumn Statement, Britoil statement, economic debate, National Insurance Surcharge] [declassified 2013]
PDF 82 Jan 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Regional Policy: Lord Bellwin letter to MT (The Urban Programme) ["I enclose a very brief note... the success stories are many"] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 82 Jan 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: No.10 letter to Councillor Angela Rumbold (Pay Review Body system) [response to her concerns about the system] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 82 Jan 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: No.10 (internal) minute to Whitmore ("Franco/British Council and the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland") [arrangements; question of MT's attendance at Assembly] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 82 Jan 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Ireland: Armstrong note to Coles (possible dates for Irish bilaterals, contingent on election result) [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Jan 30 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) China: UKE Washington telegram 296 to FCO (1815Z) (“Defence sales to China”) [declassified 2013]
PDF 82 Jan 31 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKHC Ottawa telegram to FCO (“Falklands: Argentine amateur radio operators”) [declassified 2013]
PDF 82 Feb 1 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Local government: Fowler PS letter to No.10 (Government response to the 4th Report of the Social Services Committee) [cover letter only] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 82 Feb 1 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Parliament: Keith Joseph letter to Christopher Price MP (Education, Science and Arts Committee: report on Education expenditure cuts) [response to recommendations] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 82 Feb 1 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Appointments: Department of Environment letter to No.10 (Heseltine wishes to appoint ethnic minority special advisers) [MT: "On a voluntary basis I presume"] [declassified 2013]
PDF 82 Feb 1 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Chancellor's PS letter to No.10 (“Interest Rates”) [possible further rate cut - but MT thinks too soon in view of money supply figures] [declassified 2013]
PDF 82 Feb 1 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Brittan minute to MT (“Scrutiny of Departmental running costs”) [declassified 2013]
PDF 82 Feb 2 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial policy: Treasury record of conversation (Chancellor of the Exchquer, Ridley, Sir Raymond Pennock, Sir Terence Beckett & others) [CBI: Budget representations] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 82 Feb 4 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: Lord Carrington PS letter to No.10 ("Franco-British Council") [Mauroy proposed schedule; draft MT invitation to dinner] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 82 Feb 4 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: No.10 minute to CPRS ("CPRS studies on unemployment and the black economy") [MT request for Treasury to be involved] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 82 Feb 5 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: No.10 minute to MT (“Monetary Policy Meeting”) [MT endorses Gordon Richardson’s correction to record about introduction of indexed gilts] [declassified 2013]
PDF 82 Feb 8 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: No.10 record of conversation ("Conference of the Franco-British Council") [John Coles, Sir Philip de Zulueta] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 82 Feb 8 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Government machinery: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Role of the Comptroller and Auditor General") ["The Chancellor of the Exchequer makes proposals... on the Government's response to the views put forward during the Debate in the House of Commons on 30 November 1981"] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 82 Feb 8 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Prime Minister: Dr. David Clark MP letter to MT (factory closures in South Shields) [request for a follow-up meeting following further closures] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 82 Feb 8 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: No.10 letter to Brittan PS (“Scrutiny of Departmental running costs 1981”) [MT ongoing concerns] [declassified 2013]
PDF 82 Feb 9 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: MT letter to Prime Minister Mauroy (visit to UK) [invite to London for talks following Franco-British Council conference in Edinburgh] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 82 Feb 9 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Industrial policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Sir Raymond Pennock, Sir Terence Beckett) [CBI: Budget representations to the Chancellor of the Exchequer] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 82 Feb 9 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Commonwealth: Prime Minister Price of Belize letter to MT (Belize's constitutional negotiations with Guatemala) [requests that British Garrison remains in Belize until a settlement is reached] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Feb 10 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Defence: Geoffrey Pattie PS letter to No.10 (Arms control: public opinion and security) [Pattie paper for annual Wehrkunde Conference] [declassified 2013]
PDF 82 Feb 10 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Parliament: Pym PS letter to Jenkin PS (the practice of making available uncorrected proof transcripts of public Select Committee Hearings in the House of Commons library) [rationale; guidance; classification] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 82 Feb 10 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Chancellor's PS letter to No.10 (briefing on markets since last week) ["the markets have had to digest a good deal of bad news, much of it of US origin"] [declassified 2013]
PDF 82 Feb 11 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) India: Biffen PS letter to No.10 ("India: Orissa Steel Plant: French aid shortfall") [progress report; MT: "We must keep this contract"] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 82 Feb 11 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: MT letter to Gordon Richardson (thanking for dinner at the Bank last night) [declassified 2013]
PDF 82 Feb 12 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) India: No.10 minute to Department of Trade (Orissa Steel Plant) [major civil overseas contracts] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 82 Feb 12 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Regional Policy: Heseltine letter to Jenkin ("Medway Towns") [proposal to form an Urban Development Corporation following visit to Chatham Dockyard] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 82 Feb 12 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Appointments: Heseltine minute to MT ("Race Relations and Sir George Young") [declassified 2013]
PDF 82 Feb 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Regional Policy: Heseltine PS letter to No.10 (John Prescott visits to English regions, Scotland and Northern Ireland) [Heseltine request for Prescott to be met by Department's Regional Directors] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 82 Feb 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Civil Service: Jenkin minute to Brittan (“Scrutiny of Departmental running costs”) [declassified 2013]
PDF 82 Feb 16 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economic Policy: Nott PS letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer PS (evidence to the Armed Forces Pay Review Body) ["Government... wishes to stress the continuing importance of achieving realistic pay settlements in the public sector"] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 82 Feb 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) France: Lord Carrington PS letter to No.10 ("Visit of M Mauroy") [Mauroy schedule; MT speech for Franco-British Council dinner in Edinburgh, 15 May] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 82 Feb 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) United Nations: No.10 minute to MT ("Second UN Special Session on Disarmament") [FCO advice on MT attendance] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 82 Feb 21 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Carrington PS letter to No.10 (“Falklands: territorial limits”) [declassified 2013]
PDF 82 Feb 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Regional Policy: Brittan letter to Jenkin ("Regional Development Grants") ["have decided not to press for the cuts in expenditure... agreed by Cabinet... disappointing that you and others have been unable to... [find] the savings"] [declassified Aug 2013]

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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