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PDF 85 Dec 20 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: ​​​​​​​Brian Griffiths minute to MT ("Legislation of 1986/87 and beyond") [manifesto ideas, with MT responses] [released Oct 2017]
PDF 86 Dec 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: Policy Group Report ("Managing the economy") [urges joining ERM; reducing basic rate of income tax to 25p, top rate perhaps to 50p] [released Oct 2017]
PDF 87 Jan 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) ​​​​​​​Conservative Party: Strategy Group minutes (MT, Howe, Hurd, Lawson, Tebbit, Whitelaw, Wakeham) [Lawson's Policy Group report, City issues] [released Oct 2017]
PDF 87 Feb 1 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: ​​​​​​​CRD record of conversation (MT, Lawson, Tebbit, Ridley, Griffiths) [manifesto planning] [released Oct 2017]
PDF 87 Feb 24 Tu Declassified documents Trivial Archive (Thatcher MSS) ​​​​​​​General Election: Sherbourne minute for MT (?election press conferences) [MT: "Nigel - tidy up"] [released Oct 2017]
PDF 87 Mar 2 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: Strategy Group minutes (MT, Howe, Hurd, Lawson, Tebbit, Wakeham; Young, Baker) [education policy] [released Oct 2017]
PDF 87 Mar 10 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) ​​​​​​​General Election: Sherbourne minute for MT ("John MacGregor and the Manifesto") [appointing him to chair drafting team] [released Oct 2017]
PDF 87 Mar 10 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) ​​​​​​​Conservative Party: Sherbourne letter to Michael Dobbs (lost temper) [MT "was still suffering from the emotional strain of the Zeebrugge tragedy"] [released Oct 2017]
PDF 87 Apr 1 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) General Election: Sherbourne conversation record (David Young-Stephen Sherborne) [election planning] [released Oct 2017]
PDF 87 Apr 3 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) ​​​​​​​General Election: Sherbourne minute for MT ("Meeting with the Chairman on Monday 6th April at 2.30pm") [difficulties over role of David Young] [released Oct 2017]
PDF 87 Apr 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) ​​​​​​​General Election: Sherbourne minute for MT ("Your meetings tomorrow afternoon (Wednesday 15th April")) [issues to discuss with Maurice Saatchi; role of Tim Bell and David Young] [released Oct 2017]
PDF 87 Apr 20 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: ​​​​​​​CCO briefing ("Public Opinion Review 2") [weekly review of published polls] [released Oct 2017]
PDF 87 Apr 20 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) General Election/polling: CCO briefing ("Public Opinion Background Note 181") [Cons 40.5, Alliance 29, Labour 28] [released Oct 2017]
PDF 87 Apr 22 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) General Election: Sherbourne conversation record ("Note of meeting on the Liberals/SDP held by the PM with various MPs on Wednesday 22nd April 1987") [best ways to counter the Alliance] [released Oct 2017]
PDF 87 Apr 23 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) ​​​​​​​General Election: Sherbourne minute for MT ("Manifesto") [timetable] [released Oct 2017]
PDF 87 Apr 29 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) ​​​​​​​General Election: Sherbourne letter to David Young ("Production of Manifesto") [best not bother MT with it, will undermine her confidence in your operation] [released Oct 2017]
PDF 87 May 1 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: ​​​​​​​Conservative manifesto draft (second draft) [annotated by MT] [released Oct 2017]
PDF 87 May 14 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) ​​​​​​​General Election: Wicks minute for Sherbourne (Private Office role during election campaign) [Garden Room girl should be within ten minutes of a phone] [released Oct 2017]
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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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