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PDF 79 Jun 9 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Trade Unions: Minute of 185th Meeting of the Conservative Trade Unionists' National Committee (Annual Report, elections, General Election, address by Peter Bottomley, address by Patrick Mayhew, reports) [released 2011]
PDF 79 Jul 3 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: Stephens note to MT (dinner for members of 1955 Conservative intake) [MT turns down invitation] [released 2011]
PDF 79 Jul 19 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Press Office: Henry James letter to Jane Reed (MT will not do interview with Women's Own) [released 2011]
PDF 79 Sep 3 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT: Henry James minute to MT ("Birmingham Chamber of Industry and Commerce") [arrangements for MT's address Annual Banquet] [released 2011]
PDF 79 Sep 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Economy: Herbert Stein article for Fortune magazine ("Maggie Might Make Lots of Magic") [released 2011]
PDF 79 Sep 10 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT: Caroline Stephens note to MT (MT invited to become Senior Honorary Freeman of the Grocers' Company) [released 2011]
PDF 79 Sep 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Broadcasting: FCO letter to UKE Paris (MT will not do interview with Antenne 2) [MT refusing all interview requests] [released 2011]
PDF 79 Oct 2 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Press Office: James minute to MT (planned interview with the Sunday Telegraph ) [agreeing a suitable interviewer] [released 2011]
PDF 79 Oct 4 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT: Caroline Stephens note to Denis Thatcher (MT to speak at Birmingham Chamber of Commerce) ["they are very anxious that you should accompany her"] [released 2011]
PDF 79 Oct 9 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Press Office: MT letter to Peregrine Worsthorne (MT's decision not to conduct Sunday Telegraph interview) ["You should certainly not assume that you are therefore "judged an enemy""] [released 2011]
PDF 79 Oct 25 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Broadcasting: Ingham letter to London Correspondent for Antenne 2 (MT will not accept interview offer) [released 2011]
PDF 79 Oct 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: Thorneycroft note on strategy ("Strategy") [arrangements for strategy meetings] [released 2011]
PDF 79 Oct 29 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT: Ingham minute to Stephens (MT and "Children of Courage") ["I just feel that, if she declines, it could be the last straw with those who are so ready to criticise her for heartlessness, etc., milk snatcher, etc."] [released 2011]
PDF 79 Oct 30 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT: Stephens minute to MT (Christmas arrangements) [released 2011]
PDF 79 Nov 23 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: Britto minute of Conservative Central Office meeting (strategy) [Trade Union Reform Bill, housing, health] [released 2011]
PDF 79 Nov 23 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Press Office: Ingham minute to MT ("Into the Eighties") [1980 New Year interviews] [released 2011]
PDF 79 Nov 27 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Press Office: Ingham letter to David Cox of "Weekend World" (MT agrees to "Weekend World" interview with Brian Walden) [released 2011]
PDF 79 Nov 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Economy: CRD briefing ("Current Economic Indicators - November 1979") [released 2011]
PDF 79 Dec 4 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT: Gow minute to MT ("Institute of Economic Affairs") [MT invited to dine at IEA] [released 2011]
PDF 79 Dec 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: Gow minute to MT (meetings of MPs with MT and list of "broadly sympathetic" Conservative MPs) [Gow makes case for mixing with the "unfaithful"] [released 2011]
PDF 79 Dec 11 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT: Stephens minute to MT (CPS discussion groups) [released 2011]
PDF 79 Dec 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Press Office: Ingham minute to MT ("Weekend World - January 6") [Ingham recommends a live interview, MT agrees] [released 2011]
PDF 79 Dec 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Hailsham MSS) Cabinet: Hailsham diary (discussion of strikers' benefits) [Prior threatens to resign] [released 2011]
PDF 79 Dec 21 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT: Stephens note to Ingham (Maharishi Award of the Age of Enlightenment) [Stephens to accept on MT's behalf] [released 2011]
PDF 79 Dec 21 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT: Stephens note to Denis Thatcher (would DT like to attend Grosvenor House Winter Ball) [DT worries that MT will lose her voice trying to talk over band: "the only occasions when she gets a bit cross"] [released 2011]
PDF 79 Dec 21 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT: Stephens note to MT (MT invited to Grand Night at the Inner Temple) [MT will attend] [released 2011]
PDF 79 Dec 28 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Press Office: Ingham minute to MT ("Weekend World") [set-up for Walden interview] [released 2011]
PDF 80 Jan 1 Tu Declassified documents Trivial Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT: MT note to Political Office staff (thanks for gift of radio) ["Now we can all listen to the Today programme and all complain to the B.B.C.!"] [released 2011]
PDF 80 Jan 2 We Declassified documents Trivial Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT: MT letter to Claus Moser (thanks for visit to the opera) [released 2011]
PDF 80 Jan 2 We Declassified documents Trivial Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT: MT letter to Lady Carrington (thanks for luncheon party) [meeting the Cassons] [released 2011]
PDF 80 Jan 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Press Office: Ingham minute to MT ("Weekend World") [interview arrangements] [released 2011]
PDF 80 Jan 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Press Office: Ingham minute to MT (“Requests for interviews”) [“I am becoming a little concerned” - future planning] [released 2011]
PDF 80 Jan 4 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Economy: MT letter to Sir John Sainsbury (thanks for letter) ["It will be a difficult year. But we must stick to the path we have chosen"] [released 2011]
PDF 80 Jan 4 Fr Declassified documents Trivial Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT: MT letter to Derek Shawe (thanks for loan of films for Chequers) ["we used the same room as Winston Churchill used for that purpose"] [released 2011]
PDF 80 Jan 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Press Office: Ingham minute to MT ("Requests for Interviews") [The Times, Sunday Telegraph, Illustrated London News, Daily Mail, The Sun, PBS, Thames TV, Panorama, Granada] [released 2011]
PDF 80 Jan 5 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Press Office: Ingham minute to MT ("Weekend World") [Gordon Reece's information about interview with Walden] [released 2011]
PDF 80 Jan 7 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Labour Party: Gow minute to MT ("Fire Brigades Union") [Gow talks with "moderate" union member on left-wing over-representation in Union Executive] [released 2011]
PDF 80 Jan 7 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Germany: CCO note to Ryder (MT voted Die Welt 's Woman of the Year) [released 2011]
PDF 80 Jan 7 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) India: MT letter to Prime Minister Gandhi of India (congratulations on election) ["The world's biggest democracy has confirmed its faith in the democratic system"] [released 2011]
PDF 80 Jan 7 Mo Declassified documents Trivial Archive (Thatcher MSS) MT: MT letter to President Carter (thanks for gifts) [released 2011]
PDF 80 Jan 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Iran: Carter letter to MT (Iran) [British banks & oil companies dealing with the regime] [released 2011]
PDF 80 Jan 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Local Government: No. 10 record of conversation (MT-Key Ministers-Thorneycroft-Marshall) [relationship between central and local Government] [released 2011]
PDF 80 Jan 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: Lobby Briefing (Steel, Afghanistan, Employment Bill) [released 2011]
PDF 80 Jan 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Iran: MT letter to Carter (Iran) [British banks & oil companies dealing with the regime] [released 2011]
PDF 80 Jan 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: Ryder note to MT ("Main points arising from a meeting of the CCO Directors on 8th January") [election strategy and analysis] [released 2011]
PDF 80 Jan 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Press Office: Ingham record of conversation (MT-Ingham) [television programmes and requests for interviews from journals] [released 2011]
PDF 80 Jan 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: Lobby Briefing (Quangos, Civil Service Cash Limits, Steel, Fourth Channel) [released 2011]
PDF 80 Jan 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: Gow minute to MT ("Roy Jenkins") [Jenkins to seek election as a Liberal] [released 2011]
PDF 80 Jan 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Cold War: MT letter to Prime Minister Cossiga of Italy (Theatre Nuclear Forces and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan) [released 2011]
PDF 80 Jan 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Northern Ireland: MT letter to James Molyneaux (Molyneaux's proposals for devolved government in Northern Ireland) [released 2011]

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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).

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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