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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 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 May 16 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: List of PPSs (“Parliamentary Private Secretaries”) [annotated by MT during preparation for September 1985 reshuffle] [released 2015]
PDF 85 May 22 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Reshuffle: Robin Butler minute for MT (“Supper with the Lord President & the Chief Whip”) [“purpose is to have a ‘second reading’ discussion about a re-shuffle”] [released 2015]
PDF 85 May 23 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Reshuffle: Robin Butler minute for MT (“Conclusions of a preliminary discussion” [on reshuffle]) [MT, Whitelaw, Wakeham] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Jun 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Reshuffle: Sir Keith Joseph minute for MT (“Number of DES Ministers”) [case for a third junior minister; Butler note of conversation] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Jul 19 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Reshuffle: Armstrong minute for Butler (“Ministerial Structure in the Department of the Environment”) [cut back down to six ministers when GLC/MCC abolition complete] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Jul 31 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Reshuffle: Wakeham minute for MT (“Chief Whip’s thoughts at 31 July”) [list of ministers with reshuffle suggestions; MT annotations also] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Aug 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Reshuffle: Ingham minute for MT (“Presentation&rdquo) [thoughts at tne end of a rather difficult political year] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Aug 17 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Reshuffle: William Davis memorandum for MT (brief comments on common criticisms of government) [out of touch - big three "grey, dull, uninspiring, self-righteous, and smug"] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Aug 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Flesher minute for MT (‘Presentation’) [ways of making better use of the Commons] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Aug 22 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Reshuffle: MT notes (annotated list of ministers) [plus Ingham's list of junior ministers who "might go"] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Aug 22 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Reshuffle: Sherbourne minute for MT ("very personal views") [reshuffle, Parkinson, PR advice for Lawson, backbenchers, do very few formal political tv interviews] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Aug 22 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Reshuffle: Wolfson notes ("Ministerial changes") [drop Hailsham, Joseph, Jenkin; leave Walker; Heseltine for DTI?] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Aug 27 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Reshuffle: Gowrie minute to MT (points arising from conversation on Friday) [his successor, other appointments] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Aug 27 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Reshuffle: Tebbit letter to MT (offers his thoughts) [drop Jenkin, Rees, possibly King; bring back Cecil; Lamont as Chief Secretary; move Heseltine] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Aug 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Reshuffle: Wicks minute to MT ("Possible machinery of government changes") [discussion among officials following talk with MT yesterday] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Aug 31 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Reshuffle: Wicks minute to MT ("Regional policy") [Gregson thinks if regional policy goes to Employment, so must responsibility for inward investment] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Sep 1 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Reshuffle: MT notes ("Action for Sunday") [final stage of planning - who to see/call, etc; names, including PPSs] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Sep 1 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Reshuffle: MT notes (thoughts for press?) [top three look 'tired'; "Cecil not returning"; "13 yrs old"; "Team - Bcing - good image"] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Sep 1 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Reshuffle: MT notes ('Employment') [responsibilities being moved] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Sep 2 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Reshuffle: No.10 notes (gameplan) [final stage of planning - who to see/call, etc; names, including PPSs] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Sep 2 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Reshuffle: Armstrong minute to Wicks (possible machinery of government changes) [draft Note for Editors] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Sep 2 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Reshuffle: Draft press notice ("Ministerial Resignations and Appointments") [last minute adjustments written in] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Sep 2 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Reshuffle: Wicks note for MT (Hurd reservations about wholesale changes at Northern Ireland Office) [warns Chief Whip not to move Scott & Patten as well as himself] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Sep 2 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Ingham MSS) Press Office: Lobby briefing (reshuffle) [12.30 & 6.50pm briefings, with attached note "Reshuffle 1985"] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Sep 2 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Reshuffle: Gummer letter to MT (regrets at leaving CCO, accepts new job, her vital role) ["you ought not to entertain thoughts of the kind you raised latterly with me"] [released 2015]
Text 85 Sep 2 Mo Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Margaret Thatcher TV Interview for BBC (reshuffle)
Text 85 Sep 2 Mo Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Margaret Thatcher TV Interview for ITN (reshuffle)
Text 85 Sep 2 Mo Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Margaret Thatcher Radio Interview for IRN (reshuffle)
Text 85 Sep 2 Mo Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Margaret Thatcher Letters to persons leaving the Government (Butler, Fletcher, Macfarlane, Stradling Thomas)
PDF 85 Sep 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Ingham minute for MT (‘Presentation of Policy’) [“the longer a Government lasts, the more Ministers become administrators and the less politicians”] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Sep 19 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Alison minute for Wicks (ministers to appear on TV-AM) [list of ministers regarded as having special skill in presentation] [released 2015]
PDF 85 Sep 24 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: No.10 record of conversation (‘Presentation’) [MT, Whitelaw, Tebbit, Alison, Sherbourne, Ingham] [released 2015]
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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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