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PDF 85 Mar 1 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy briefing (“Daily Coal Report - Friday 1 March 1985”) [miners’ strike: situation report] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 1 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy letter to No.10 (“Weekly Coal and Power Station Statistics”) [miners’ strike: situation report] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 1 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy letter to No.10 (“Power Station Endurance”) [miners’ strike: situation report] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 1 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“MISC 101(85) 9th Meeting: Coal”) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 4 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy briefing (“Daily Coal Report - Monday 4 March 1985”) [miners’ strike: situation report] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 4 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Cabinet Office minute to MT (“Lessons of the Miners’ Strike”) [proposal for a study] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 4 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Redwood minute to MT (miners' return to work: line to take) [Redwood's suggestion: 'The return of the miners voluntarily...is an historic victory for common sense'] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 5 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy briefing (“Daily Coal Report - Tuesday 5 March 1985”) [miners’ strike: situation report] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy briefing (“Daily Coal Report - Wednesday 6 March 1985”) [miners’ strike: situation report] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Armstrong briefing for MT (“Cabinet: Industrial Affairs: Coal”) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 7 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy briefing (“Daily Coal Report - Thursday 6 March 1985”) [miners’ strike: situation report] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 8 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy briefing (“Daily Coal Report - Friday 8 March 1985”) [miners’ strike: situation report] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 8 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Wybrew minute to MT (“Coal Dispute - Endurance, and New Colliery Review Procedure”) ['We are now in a unique position to succeed'] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 8 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy letter to No.10 (“Rebuilding Power Station Coal Stocks”) [options] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 8 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Rees letter to Walker (“Miners Redundancy Pay and Pensions”) ['I was disturbed to hear that there is a possibility of miners being eligible for pension in respect of periods on strike'] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 11 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Chancellor of the Exchequer-Walker-Tebbit-Havers-Bottomley-Gregson-Redwood) [modified Colliery Review Procedure: next steps in implementing NACODS-NCB agreement] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 11 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Chancellor of the Exchequer-Walker-Gregson-Redwood) ["Rebuilding Power Station Coal Stocks"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 11 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Coal: Alison letter to Walker (“Mr Brian Askew”) [candidate for NCB chairmanship] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 20 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Redwood minute to MT (“Coal Industry”) [Redwood meeting with Ian MacGregor: NACODS; open-cast coal; NCB Board; redundancies and pit closures; finance and investment programme] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: NCB representative Spanton letter to NUM Secretary Heathfield (assessing damage caused by the miners' strike) ['damage has occurred which will take months to recover'] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Butler minute to Armstrong (transfer of responsibility for mining planning consents from Department of Energy to Department of Environment) [transfer of responsibility 'causing considerable difficulty and delay'] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Wybrew minute to MT (“Coal Industry Bill”) ['There is no excuse for an organisation with the resources of the NCB to emerge from a prolonged strike without clearly defined objectives'] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 31 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: MacGregor letter to miners (end of the miners' strike) ['every effort must be made to restore harmony within the industry'] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 31 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Walker minute to MT (NUM Yorkshire Area annual report for 1984) ['illustrates fairly clearly the attitudes and present thinking of the NUM at Area level'] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 2 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Butler note for the record (points made by working miners at working miners’ dinner) ['Some managers, out of a desire to conciliate the militants, were failing to protect the working miners'] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 4 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: MT letter to Mrs Hackett, wife of working miner (condemns intimidation of working miners) ['The miners who stood up for their right to work were defending a fundamental privilege of a free people'] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 9 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Walker minute to MT (“Coal Industry Bill and Mineworkers’ Pension Scheme”) [eligibility of striking miners for pensions accrued during periods on strike] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 11 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: NCB press release (“Discussions on Modified Colliery Review Procedure”) ['NCB and unions agree to joint sub-committee to discuss colliery review procedure] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 11 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Biffen letter to Walker (“Coal Industry Bill”) [Walker's proposed additional provisions; Biffen urges further consideration and time for discussion] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 12 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy briefing (“Weekly Coal and Power Station Statistics”) [miners’ strike: situation report] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 12 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Wybrew minute to MT (“Coal Industry Bill and Mineworkers’ Pension Bill”) [recommends against amending mineworkers' pension entitlement in Bill: 'The big prize is still a restructured coal industry...The Luddites should be given no ammunition to hinder that process'] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 13 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: NCB press release (“Coal Board Take Action on Intimidation”) ['Our management will not tolerate any intimidation of individual workmen or groups of employees'] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Walker letter to Lawson (“Coal Industry Bill”) [need 'to present the Bill as a financial framework within which we expect the Board to work'] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Ingham minute to MT (“The Trade Union Centenary”) [public opinion on miners' strike; Ingham considers it unwise 'to rub the NUM’s nose in it [i.e. their defeat]'] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Walker minute to MT (opencast mining) [transfer of responsibility for licences for opencast mining from Department of Energy to Department of Environment] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy briefing (“Weekly Coal and Power Station Statistics”) [miners’ strike: situation report] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Walker letter to Lawson (“Coal Industry Bill”) [budgetary planning for the coal industry: 'we will need to give a public indication of our financial expectations'] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Walker minute to MT (“Coal Stock Re-Build at CEGB Power Stations”) [latest data] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Walker) ["Coal Issues": power station stocks, future of the NCB, pit closures; NUM rules] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 25 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy press notice (“Coal Industry Bill Published”) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: No.10 letter to Department of Energy (“Coal Industry”) [issues requiring consideration: power station stocks and endurance, pit closures and redundancies, open cast mining, structure of the coal industry, NCB Executive] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy briefing (“Weekly Coal and Power Station Statistics”) [miners’ strike: situation report] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 8 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: NCB press release (“No Closures Outside Colliery Review Procedure”) ['NCB’s Assurance to Unions'] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 8 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Turnbull note to MT (Walker’s criticisms of MacGregor) ['three serious accusations' against MacGregor; Turnbull will set up meetings; MT: 'Thank you it's urgent'] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 8 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Addison minute to MT (NCB’s response to intimidation reports) [NCB response to complaint of intimidation 'adopts a rather tough tone'] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 9 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Walker minute to MT (situation at the NCB: concerns about MacGregor's performance) [Walker's 'very real concern at what is happening at the National Coal Board at present'] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 10 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy briefing (“Weekly Coal and Power Station Statistics”) [miners’ strike: situation report] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 10 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Turnbull minute to MT (“Meeting with Mr. MacGregor”) [brief for meeting: closures, colliery review procedure, NACODS, NCB executive, open-cast mining, treatment of working miners] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 10 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Walker) [“National Coal Board”: Walker's concerns about MacGregor's performance] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 10 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: King minute to MT (“Revision of the NUM Rule Book”) ['proposed changes have been designed with the union’s experience in the strike very much in mind'] [declassified Dec 2014]

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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