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PDF 84 Oct 1 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Independent Study Group report (“Britain’s Undefended Frontier: A Policy for Ulster”) [protagonists, alternative approaches, policy, conclusions] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 8 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Northern Ireland Secretary PS minute to Charles Powell (“Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland”) [errors in previous letter] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 8 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: FitzGerald letter to MT (PIRA arrests) [thanks for letter] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 9 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Northern Ireland Office letter to No.10 ("Magilligan Hunger Strike") [prisoners at Magilligan prison end hunger strike] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 9 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Northern Ireland Secretary PS minute to Charles Powell (“Macgilligan Hunger Strike”) [“it is useful that in this incident the authority of the Government in the prisons has been maintained”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 10 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Armstrong minute to MT (reaction of Northern Ireland parties to Government negotiations with Ireland) [Armstrong suggests against taking 'early soundings' of NI parties] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 10 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Armstrong minute to MT ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") [speaking notes for upcoming secret talks with Irish Government] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 10 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Armstrong minute to MT (talks with Nally) [“Unionists already have reason to suspect that there is a process of secret talks between the British and Irish Governments”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 10 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Havers letter to Hurd (“McGlinchey”) [likely course of action] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 11 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Powell minute to MT ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") [MT: "The events of Thursday night at Brighton mean that we must go very slow on these talks if not stop them"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 12 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Hurd minute to MT ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") [Hurd content with proposed speaking notes for secret talks with Irish Government] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 12 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Hurd minute to MT (“Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland”) [Irish constitutional amendments] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Howe minute to MT ("Northern Ireland") [Howe content with proposed speaking notes for secret talks with Irish Government] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Powell minute to Armstrong ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") [MT content for exploratory talks to continue, but stresses need to avoid impression "of being bombed into making concessions to the Republic"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Foreign Secretary PS minute to Northern Ireland Secretary PS (“Dominic McGlinchey”) [impact of an acquittal] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Charles Powell minute to Armstrong (“Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland”) [events in Brighton have confirmed to MT “that we must go very slow on these talks and must at all costs avoid the impression of being bombed into making concessions to the Republic”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Armstrong minute to MT ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") [Armstrong argues that Sir John Hermon, the Lord Chancellor and the Attorney General should be included in secret talks with Irish Government] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: FCO letter to No.10 ("Northern Ireland") [speaking to Northern Ireland parties about secret talks with Irish Government] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Hurd minute to MT ("Northern Ireland") [thoughts on giving advance warning to Unionist parties about secret Anglo-Irish talks] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Foreign Secretary PS minute to Charles Powell (“Northern Ireland”) [risks of speaking to Northern Ireland parties ahead of Anglo-Irish summit] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Armstrong minute to Charles Powell (“Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland”) [Nally talks: package of security arrangements] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Goodison record of conversation (“Anglo-Irish relations”) [FitzGerald “regarded it as absolutely essential that HMG should be seen to be taking action on the ground in Northern Ireland”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: UKE Washington telegram 3110 to FCO (2254Z) (“Irish Gun-Running”) [US Customs action against ship owner] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 17 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: UKE Dublin telegram 3110 to FCO (2254Z) (“Visit to Ireland by United States Bishops”) [“Everyone they had met had placed their hopes for political change on the Anglo-Irish Summit”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Armstrong minute to MT ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") [account of secret talks with Irish Government] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Armstrong minute to Powell (record of conversation between UK Ambassador to Dublin and Taoiseach Fitzgerald) [Powell: "This shows Dr Fitzgerald wildly over-optimistic...we are in a different world following the Brighton bomb"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Powell minute to MT ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") [thoughts on giving advance warning to Unionist parties about secret Anglo-Irish talks; MT: "'the bomb' has slowed things down and may in the end kill any new initiative"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Hurd minute to MT (“Northern Ireland”) [“anxious that neither you nor I should be accused later of misleading the Unionists”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Charles Powell minute to MT (“Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland”) [talks with Irish leaders] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 18 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Armstrong minute to MT (“Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland”) [“We agreed that the exchanges were continuing on a basis of no commitment by either side”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: No.10 letter to Northern Ireland Office ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") [MT's thoughts on giving advance warning to Unionist parties about secret Anglo-Irish talks] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Charles Powell minute to MT (“Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland”) [MT “has commented that the terrorist bomb in Brighton has slowed these confidential talks down”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 20 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Powell letter to Armstrong (Anglo-Irish talks) ["The Prime Minister thinks that the Ambassador did well to make clear to the Taoiseach that there was no possibility of reaching agreement on 19 November"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 20 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Powell minute to Armstrong ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") [MT's comments on record of Armstrong-Nally talks] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 20 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Charles Powell minute to Armstrong (“Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland”) [MT “does not agree with the proposal put forward by the Irish side for a Ministerial Committee for Northern Ireland”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Howe minute to MT ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") ["[I] continue to believe that the process we are engaged on represents the least unpromising way forward on the Northern Ireland question"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Howe minute to MT (“Anglo-Irish relations: Northern Ireland”) [“there has been a marked increase of realism and lowering of expectations on the Irish side”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Northern Ireland Office letter to No.10 ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") [plan for informing Unionist parties of Anglo-Irish talks] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: No.10 letter to FCO ("Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland") [MT on Howe's minute: "Her general comment is that she is becoming very pessimistic about this exercise"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Northern Ireland Secretary PS minute to Charles Powell (“Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland”) [Hurd meetings with Irish and Northern Irish leaders] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 25 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: NIO record of conversation (Hurd meeting with Barry and Noonan) [security, extradition, procedures] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Hurd minute to MT ("Anglo-Irish Talks") [Hurd's thoughts on talks with Irish Ministers: "I found the outcome rather depressing"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Northern Ireland Office letter to No.10 ("Anglo-Irish Discussions") [full record of Hurd talks with Irish Minister] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Hurd minute to MT (“Anglo-Irish Talks”) [“some of the talking was quite tough and I found the outcome rather depressing”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 31 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Armstrong minute to Powell ("Anglo-Irish Summit: Venue") [threat assessment and proposed venue] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 31 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Powell minute to MT ("Meeting of Ministers: Northern Ireland") [brief for meeting with Howe and Hurd] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 31 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Howe-Hurd-Armstrong-Andrew-Goodall-Cartledge) ["Anglo-Irish Relations: North Ireland"] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 31 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Charles Powell minute to Northern Ireland Secretary PS (“Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland”) [“a risk that the result of the talks might simply be to step up violence rather than reduce it”] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 31 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Charles Powell minute to MT (“Meeting of Ministers: Northern Ireland”) [Armstrong-Nally talks; Anglo-Irish Summit] [declassified 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 31 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Northern Ireland: Charles Powell minute to MT (“Anglo-Irish Relations: Northern Ireland”) [briefing ahead of ministerial meeting on Armstrong-Nally talks, Anglo-Irish Summit] [declassified 2014]

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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