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PDF 82 May 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Falklands/Brazil: Gow letter to Robin Maxwell-Hyslop (thanks for documents on Brazil) [Galtieri's close relationship with Brazilian President] [released 2016]
PDF 83 May 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservativism: MT notes for 1922 Committee speech (pre-election send off) [“steadfastness of this party”] [released 2015]
PDF 84 Sep 7 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Redwood minute to MT ("The Coal Industry") [miners' strike: "tackling the NCB"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Sep 7 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Opinion Polls: CCO polling (“Public Opinion Background Note 54”) [“a sharp turnaround in support for the Conservatives”] [released 2015]
PDF 84 Sep 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Reshuffle: Robin Butler minute for MT (“Aide memoire”) [“Ideas mentioned by the PM for next re-shuffle” - Gow possible Chief Secretary (among others)] [released 2015]
PDF 84 Dec 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: Alison note to William Clark (drinks with backbenchers) [“part of a general policy to make better use of the experience and insights of our backbench parliamentary committees”] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Jan 6 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Employment: No.10 record of conversation (“Employment Statistics”) [increased employment figure might be drastically revised down] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Jan 7 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Coal: David Hart note for MT (“DOLE NOT COAL”) [trigger return to work by abandoning pledge not to introduce compulsory redundancies] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Jan 7 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT: Norman Tebbit to MT (thanks for her support during his recovery) [returning to cabinet] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Jan 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (coal) [“ Times says NCB’s attitude to talks has hardened”] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Jan 13 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Opinion Polls: CCO polling (“Public Opinion Background Note 69/70”) [7 percent Conservative lead over Labour, but falls in overall support for Conservatives] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Jan 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Ingham minute for Whitelaw (‘Economic & Social Policy Presentation: Chairman’s Brief’) [meeting on 15 Jan to regenerate momentum] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Jan 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Local government: Letwin minute (“Local Government: Countering the Far Left”) [propaganda campaign against rate capping] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Jan 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Local government: Jenkin minute (“GLC propaganda on ratecapping”) [“we are precluded in the short term from the most desriable course of action which would be to legislate to stop such advertising”] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Jan 17 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) US: Nancy Reagan to MT (thanks for Xmas gift) [hope she enjoyed Dec 1984 Camp David visit] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Jan 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Monetary policy: John Redwood minute for MT (“The dollar/sterling exchange rate”) [dollar not yet weakening] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Jan 20 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Monetary policy: MT letter to David Eccles (dollar/sterling exchange rate) [“If Europe could be rid of Socialism for the forseeable future, our currencies would become much more attractive”] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Jan 25 Fr Press Major Commentary (The Times) Oxford: “Oxford dons split over award to Thatcher” (statements for & against in University Gazette )
PDF 85 Jan 28 Mo Press Major Commentary (The Times) Oxford: “Degree for Mrs Thatcher” (letter of support from Lord Beloff)
PDF 85 Jan 29 Tu Press Major Commentary (The Times) Oxford: “Degree for Mrs Thatcher” (letter of support from Lord Goodman)
PDF 85 Jan 29 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Ingham minute (Peter Jay interview) [current affairs, 10 years’ leadership] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Jan 30 We Press Key Commentary (The Times) Oxford: “Oxford votes to snub Thatcher” (Congregation rejects honorary degree 738:319)
PDF 85 Jan 30 We Press Major Commentary (The Times) Oxford: “Sale of Honours” (Leading article attacking Oxford decision to refuse MT honorary degree)
PDF 85 Jan 30 We Press Major Commentary (The Times) Oxford: “Fellows who are anti-female” (refusal of honorary degree “the badge of her radicalism, and some of us at Oxford salute her for it”) [article by Nicholas Shrimpton]
PDF 85 Jan 31 Th Press Major Commentary (The Times) Oxford: “Oxford rejection of Thatcher ‘spiteful’” (Soames & Gummer write to Noble)
PDF 85 Jan 31 Th Press Major Commentary (The Times) Labour: “Why this censure makes no sense” (Ronald Butt on Labour motion)
PDF 85 Jan 31 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Cold War: Michael Havers to MT (congratulations on censure debate speech) [“A marvellous performance!”] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Feb 1 Fr Press Major Commentary (The Times) Oxford: “Oxford University’s rebuff to the Prime Minister” (letters from Percival, Noble, Oppenheimer, Pulzer, Reed, Crick, Orr-Ewing )
PDF 85 Feb 1 Fr Press Major Commentary (The Times) Oxford: “Does Oxford speak for the nation?” (David Watt column)
PDF 85 Feb 1 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Oxford degree) [Oxford, Kinnock criticised] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Feb 1 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: Howe minute to FCO ministers (“Liaison between the FCO and the party”) [agreement with chairman to “share as much information as possible”] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Feb 2 Sa Press Major Commentary (The Times) Oxford: “Implications of Oxford’s snub to Mrs Thatcher” (letters from Radice, Horne, Peele, Hayter, Dashwood & Opie)
PDF 85 Feb 4 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Ingham minute (“Week Ahead” & Press Digest) [coal strike: colliery closures, return to work] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Feb 4 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Cabinet Office record of conversation (meeting to discuss presentation of government economic & social policy) [progress report on initiative to date] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Feb 4 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Ingham minute (“Economic & Social Policy Presentation: Ministerial Meeting, Feb 5, 1985”) [pay bargaining & education expenditure] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Feb 5 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Ingham minute (Liaison committee) [upcoming events] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Feb 7 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT: MT letter to Seigen Tanaka (thanks for tea service & letter) [“Like you, I hope very much that the Joint Declaration will serve as an example and a precedent for the peaceful resolution of differences"] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Feb 7 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Tebbit minute for MT (questions role of Whitelaw-Ingham group) [“I find myself concerned at the blurring of lines between Parliamentary and Governmental activities”] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Feb 8 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (coal strike) [“NACODS join NUM in calling on NCB to open immediate negotiations. You say NACODS deal with NUM stands”] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Feb 11 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Ingham minute (“Week Ahead” & Press Digest) [coal strike: substantial return to work expected] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Feb 12 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Ingham minute (Liaison committee) [upcoming events] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Feb 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Ponting case) [“Your row with Kinnock takes the headlines - with the exchange of letters printed”] released 2015]
PDF 85 Feb 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Ponting case) [“The war of words goes on”] released 2015]
PDF 85 Feb 14 Th Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Community Charge: Alison record of conversation (MT - Scottish Conservative chairman) [“Goold came to express his great anxiety about the damage to the Conservative Party which is likely to result from Scottish rating revaluation”] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Feb 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservatism: NUCAS minutes (Executive Committee meeting) [CPC representation, local government, Central Council meeting, GPC report, rule changes] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Feb 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Women in politics: Alison note to MT (recommendation of Pauline Mathias) [“dearth of women with a sound record of achievement, who might be drawn into the public service in some way or another”] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Feb 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Ponting case) [“You lose respect for Kinnock as exchange of letters shows signs of boring the ‘pops’”] released 2015]
PDF 85 Feb 15 Fr Speeches, interviews, etc. Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Interview for Eton College Chronicle (“The Prime Minister Ten Years On”)
PDF 85 Feb 18 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Ingham minute (“Week Ahead” & Press Digest) [Ponting case: “John Stanley put in the dock for alleged cover up”] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Feb 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Ponting case) [“Mail tends to sum it up - Mr Heseltine yomped all over him and them”] released 2015]

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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