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PDF 83 Jan 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) General Election: Parkinson record of conversation (MT-Parkinson-Gow-Spicer-Wolfson) [General Election planning meetings] [released 2013]
PDF 83 Apr 7 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) General Election: Shrimsley minute ("Prime Minister's Election Campaign") [thoughts on media strategy, style, themes, and campaign arrangements] [released 2013]
PDF 83 Apr 20 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) General Election: Gow letter to Shrimsley (draft letter from MT to Panorama Editor on proposed TV debate) [MT refuses TV debate: "it would not be in the best interest of British politics"] [released 2013]
PDF 83 May 6 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) General Election: Butler minute to MT ("Election Contingency Plans") [plans for a 23rd June election; MT annotates and notes plan for 9th June election] [released 2013]
PDF 83 May 6 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Ingham minute to MT ("Media Meeting - Friday, 6 May") [agenda; media speculation on date of election; MT: "Calm down"] [released 2013]
PDF 83 May 10 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Opinion Polls: Britto letter to Gow ("Post Local Government Election Survey") [released 2013]
PDF 83 May 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) General Election: Monckton minute to Gow ("Lessons from the Perth Speech") [warns against MT 'stooping to personal abuse' in speeches; MT: "Where was there personal abuse in that speech? Please give me one example"] [released 2013]
PDF 83 May 17 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) General Election: MT letter to Iain Sproat (MT unable to visit Scottish borders region due to start of General Election campaign) [MT removes references to Michael Foot from the letter: "Please keep out all reference to Labour personalities - we fight on policies"] [released 2013]
PDF 83 May 27 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) General Election: Reece minute to Parkinson (assessment of progress of Campaign to date: improving photo opportunities) ["The Campaign is going exceptionally well"] [released 2013]
PDF 83 Jun 1 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) General Election: Quotation from Healey speech in Birmingham ("[MT] decided to wrap herself in the Union Jack and exploit the sacrifices of our armed forces and she hopes to get away with it") ["This Prime Minister...glories in hatred"] [released 2013]
PDF 83 Jun 2 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) General Election: Ingham minute to MT ("Media on June 10") [plans for MT's re-election statement; MT: "Let's not count chickens"] [released 2013]
PDF 83 Jun 5 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) General Election: Sherman minute ("The Last Lap. A Majority in Seats and Votes") [implications of 'Healey's outburst' on MT and Falklands war: Healey has given up on election victory] [released 2013]
PDF 83 Jun 6 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) General Election: MT letter to Stevas (thanks for letter) ["I agree with you about the Healeyism. It went too far - even for him"] [released 2013]
PDF 83 Jun 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) General Election: MT letter to Sue Lawley (MT's appearance on Nationwide 'On the Spot' programme) ["I confess I have never liked addressing a T.V. screen - it is so artificial"] [released 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 7 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Labour Party: MT letter to Foot (Foot's retirement as Leader of the Labour Party) ["I have greatly valued the frankness and confidence with which we have been able to conduct our personal business as Prime Minister and Leader of the Opposition"] [released 2013]
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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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