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PDF 90 Jul 12 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Charles Powell note for MT (attaches Nick Ridley Spectator interview) ["This looks like a banana skin"] [released Feb 2020]
PDF 90 Jul 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Media: Press Digest for MT (Nick Ridley) ["The press is near unanimous in saying that Mr Ridley should go"] [released Feb 2020]
PDF 90 Jul 17 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Germany: MT letter to Helmut Kohl (Ridley's "unfortunate interview"; "Strictly Personal") [thanks for Kohl's "most generous remarks" this morning; Ridley "took the honourable course and I hope that can be regarded as closing the matter"] [released Feb 2020]
PDF 90 Jul 17 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Germany: MT letter to Helmut Kohl (his visit to USSR) ["warmest congratulations on the success of your visit"] [released Feb 2020]
Text 90 Jul 19 Th Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Margaret Thatcher Speech to 1922 Committee
PDF 90 Jul 21 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: MT letter to Cranley Onslow (thanks to him and executive of 1922 Committee) ["for all you have done this session especially when times have not been so easy"] [released Feb 2020]
PDF 90 Jul 21 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Conservative Party: MT letter to Tim Renton (thanks for dinner) ["a special thank you to you all for your superlative efforts during this somewhat difficult Parliamentary year"] [released Feb 2020]
PDF 90 Jul 27 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Reshuffle: MT letter to Willie Whitelaw (reshuffle) ["We are all delighted to have Peter [Morrison] here with us, and I think the other changes have generally gone down well"] [released Feb 2020]
PDF 90 Jul 30 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Ian Gow: Peter Morrison letter to MT (shock) [reaction to the murder] [released Feb 2020]
PDF 90 Jul 30 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Ian Gow: Ronnie Millar letter to MT (commiseration) ["be of good heart, as he would wish you to be"; Aspen speech] [released Feb 2020]
PDF 90 Jul 31 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Ian Gow: Ingham minute to MT (article for News of the World) ["you must not be distracted by Ian's sad death from the real business - namely winning the next election"] [released Feb 2020]
PDF 90 Aug 2 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Gulf, etc: MT note ("Notes for meeting with the President - Aspen 2 Aug. 1990") [oil oil oil] [released Feb 2020]
Text 90 Aug 2 Th Speeches, interviews, etc. Key Margaret Thatcher & George Bush Joint Press Conference with President Bush (Iraqi invasion of Kuwait)
Video 90 Aug 2 Th Multimedia Key Margaret Thatcher & George Bush Joint Press Conference with President Bush (Iraqi invasion of Kuwait) [film]
PDF 90 Aug 6 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Gulf, etc: MT letter to Barbara Walters (visit to Aspen, Colorado) [thank you letters for "a most marvellous break"] [released Feb 2020]
PDF 90 Aug 11 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Reshuffle: MT letter to Mark Lennox-Boyd (leaving No.10) ["you saw me through my most difficult time here"] [released Feb 2020]
PDF 90 Aug 11 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Gulf, etc: MT letter to Sir James Miskin (retirement) ["I view any prospect of retirement with distinct alarm"] [released Feb 2020]
PDF 90 Aug 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Ian Gow: MT letter to Father Wymes (funeral service) ["deeply moving, and a fitting tribute"] [released Feb 2020]
PDF 90 Aug 25 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Gulf, etc: MT draft speech (MT remarks on 'The New European Security Order' at EDU conference Helsinki, 30 Aug) [drops paragraph on WMD] [released Feb 2020]
PDF 90 Aug 26 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Gulf: Ingham briefing for MT ("Sunday Newspapers") ["extremely strong public support" for government handling of Gulf but "only confusion about the political effects of the Gulf crisis"] [released Feb 2020]
PDF 90 Aug 31 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Gulf, etc: Ingham briefing for MT ("David Frost interview") ["you need to demonstrate an iron resolution to see the issue through to a satisfactory outcome and to stand on principle"] [released Feb 2020]
Text 90 Sep 1 Sa Speeches, interviews, etc. Major Margaret Thatcher TV Interview for TV-AM Frost on Sunday
Text 90 Sep 6 Th Speeches, interviews, etc. Key Margaret Thatcher HC S: [Gulf Crisis]
PDF 90 Oct 14 Su Declassified documents Key Archive (Thatcher MSS) Gulf, etc: MT note ("Notes for reply to President Bush phone call Oct 1990") [no option to play it long] [released Feb 2020]
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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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