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PDF 85 Oct 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Kinnock attacks Scargill) [“Sun says Kinnock yesterday finally smashed Scargill’s strangehold on the Labour Party”] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Oct 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Middle East: MT letter to Eddie Molyneux (sale of arms) [Israel’s right to defend itself] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Oct 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Labour party: CRD briefing (Labour Party conference) [Kinnock’s leadership, divisions within the party, policies] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Oct 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT: Wicks minute (“Breakfasts”) [meetings offer “the opportunity to discuss, informally, governmental and political issues”] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Oct 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservatism: Robin Harris draft (“Draft section for the PM’s conference speech”) [“Neil Kinnock is no Gaitskell”] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Oct 6 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservatism: MT draft (conference speech) [“Draft 1”] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Oct 7 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Foreign policy: Charles Powell minute for MT (defence and foreign policy sections of conference speech) [Gaitskell fought against the people who now control the Labour Party] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Oct 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservatism: MT draft (conference speech) [“Wednesday lunchtime draft”] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Oct 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Middle East: MT letter to Michael Fidler (Jordanian/Palestinian delegation to London) [“Our decision to receive a delegation in London is intended to strengthen the resolve of moderate Palestinians to make progress”] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Oct 17 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Industry: Gaisman note (“Lunches for industrialists”) [arrangements for possible event] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Oct 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) US: US Ambassador Charles Price card to MT (thanks for UK help with Achille Lauro terrorist attack) [grateful & proud] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Oct 20 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT: Wicks minute (“Your Time”) [“suggests a framework within which you might wish to allocate your time”] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Oct 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Coal: Ian MacGregor letter to MT (intimidation) [NCB’s efforts to tackle intimidation, problems with return to work] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Oct 28 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Ingham minute to Sherbourne (Prime Ministerial meetings with editors) [who to invite] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Oct 30 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Parliament: Wicks minute (“Drugs Bill”) [suggestion that the debate start in the Lords, Whitelaw’s likely reaction] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Oct 31 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Industry, law & order, politics, etc) [“Kilroy-Silk in Common scuffle with Jeremy Corbyn”] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Oct 31 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Parliament: Alison minute for MT (“Sunday Trading”) [prospect of “parliamentary war against any Bill which might materialise”] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Oct 31 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Middle East: MT letter to Edidie Molyneux (Arab boycott) [opposition to boycott] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Nov 4 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Parliament: Alison note to David Waddington (Sunday Trading) [critical points made to MT; she wants them discussed with Hurd and Wakeham] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Nov 5 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Parliament: Alison note to David Waddington (Sunday Trading) [update on backbench misgivings - Graham Bright] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Nov 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Briefing on Queen’s Speech (subject notes) [released 2015]
PDF 85 Nov 11 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT: Alison minute to MT (lunch for speechwriters) [allocate one Monday lunch for event with “outsiders”] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Nov 11 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: Alison minute to MT (1922 Committee) [Onslow asks for a December speech, MT refuses - speak to Executive instead] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Nov 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Middle East: Robin Harris letter to Keith Joseph (“Oil Sales to Israel”) [“Israel does not appear to have any difficulty in securing oil supplies”] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Nov 18 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) No.10: Addison minute for Garden Room (“Delivering petitions to No.10”) [tightening up to avoid ministers bumping into petitioners] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Nov 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Security: Armstrong minute for Flesher (GCHQ dispute) [update] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Nov 22 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Northern Ireland: Charles Powell minute for MT (“Anglo-Irish Agreement: Speech in the debate”) [draft] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Nov 23 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Opinion polls: CCO polling (“Public Opinion Background Note 115”) [Gallup polls put Conservative support unchanged at 35 percent] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Nov 26 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Pay: John MacGregor letter to Brittan (“Pay in the Public Trading Sector”) [“Settlements in the 1984-85 pay round were generally too high”] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Nov 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Cold War: US Ambassador Charles Price card to MT (thanks for Chequers visit with Bud McFarlane) [McFarlane’s read out on the summit; “how much longer he can stand the pace is open to question”] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Nov 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Kinnock attacks Militant) [“Kinnock says Militant Tendency is a maggot in the body of the Labour Party”] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Dec 9 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: Tebbit letter to MT (Cental Office staffing) [Michael Dobbs to be Chief of Staff; drop Hal Miller as Vice-Chairman; Chris Lawson to assist Harvey Thomas] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Dec 10 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) No.10: Wicks minute (“Progress Chasing”) [MT requests review of arrangements for “progress chasing of ourstanding letters, remits to departments, actions, etc”] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Dec 10 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT: Michael Alison to MT (dinner celebrating 250th anniversary of No.10) [her speech “better, but not too much better than the Queen’s”] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Dec 12 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) US: US Ambassador Charles Price card to MT (congratulations on her wedding anniversary) [“you are a great and ‘dynamic duo’”] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Dec 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT: Wicks minute (“The Monday Morning Meeting”) [contacts with ministers: suggests MT “emphasise the importance which you attach to maintaining the closest possible contacts”] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Dec 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Labour: Sherbourne minute for MT ( Sun article on Neil Kinnock) [“He is, apparently, really feeling under pressure”] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Dec 17 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Westland: Alison note to MT (Michael Heseltine) [“he is not looking for an occasion to resign, & hopes - I judge - that he will not be sacked!”] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Dec 22 Su Declassified documents Trivial Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT: Gaisman note (dinner receipts) [MT eats modestly in the Commons canteen] [released 2015]

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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).

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