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PDF 88 Aug 27 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Europe/Bruges speech: Hugh Thomas draft for MT ("The Future of Europe") ["We have not embarked on the business of throwing back the frontiers of the state at home only to have a super nation state getting ready to exercise a new dominance"] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Aug 27 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Europe/Bruges speech: Hugh Thomas notes (MT's speech on Europe) [fragments] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Aug 31 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (Thatcher MSS) Europe/Bruges speech: Charles Powell letter to Hugh Thomas (thanks) [encloses draft, drawing on his ideas, invites further comment] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Sep 6 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (FCO) Europe: John Kerr to Patrick Wright (state of play on MT Bruges speech) [CDP “reasonably responsive” to view that too controversial a speech would meet rebuttals]
PDF 88 Sep 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Europe/Bruges speech: Charles Powell minute for MT ("Speech on Europe") [second draft, taking on board SOME of the comments received; "result is to tone down the original a bit, but not too much"; MT annotations on draft] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Sep 13 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Europe/Bruges speech: Charles Powell minute for MT ("European speech") [revised second draft, following 4 hour speechwriting session, with MT annotations] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Sep 14 We Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Europe/Bruges speech: Alan Clark minute for MT ("The Bruges Speech") ["The speech is of crucial importance .... will signal our attitudes todevelopments in the Community both micro and macro over the next decade"] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Sep 14 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Europe/Bruges speech: Charles Powell letter to FCO ("Prime Minister's Speech in Bruges") [revised second draft, MT "now broadly content with it", comment by 1500 16 Spt] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Sep 14 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Europe/Bruges speech: Charles Powell/MT draft (second draft as circulated to departments for further comment) [revised second draft incorporating MT comments, labelled "Version III"] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Sep 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Europe/Bruges speech: FCO letter to No.10 ("Prime Minister's Speech in Bruges") [suggestions on Powell's second draft] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Sep 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Europe/Bruges speech: Charles Powell/MT draft (final draft for translation and autocue) [MT cuts] [released Jul 2018]
Text 88 Sep 20 Tu Speeches, interviews, etc. Key Margaret Thatcher Speech to the College of Europe ("The Bruges Speech")
PDF 88 Sep 26 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Europe/Bruges speech: MT letter to the Rector of the College of Europe (thanks for invitation to speak) ["hope that my remarks will initiate a constructive debate about the European Community's future course"] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Sep 26 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Europe/Bruges speech: MT letter to UKA Brussels (thanks for hospitality) ["I get rather depressed about Europe's future when I listen to Leo Tindemans' federalist views: but I hope we managed to get across some points to the others."] [released Jul 2018]
PDF 88 Oct 1 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Europe: MT draft section ?for conference speech (Europe) ["To suppress nationhood would be damaging & would hinder progress"] [released Jul 2018]
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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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