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PDF 85 Jan 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy briefing (“Daily Coal Report - Monday 21 January 1985”) [miners’ strike: situation report] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: NCB record of conversation (NCB-NUM Representatives) [miners' strike: NCB and NUM consider potential resumption of discussions] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Wybrew minute to Redwood (“Coal Dispute”) [statistics on striking miners and coal production: 'The picture is encouraging...'] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Turnbull note to MT (call from Irene McGibbon of Miners' Wives Back to Work Campaign) [concern about NCB-NUM talks: 'working miners will be sold short'] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Hatfield minute to Butler (reports on the strike: follow-up actions) ['I can confirm that those responsible for producing these reports are well seized of the need to be alert to the opportunities for follow-up action'] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy letter to No.10 (“Weekly Coal and Power Station Statistics”) [miners’ strike: situation report] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy briefing (“Daily Coal Report - Tuesday 22 January 1985”) [miners’ strike: situation report] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: NCB press release (“‘Think Again’ Call to Miners Leaders”) ['we do not want another round of talks in which the NUM yet again persist with their one impossible demand'] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 23 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy briefing (“Daily Coal Report - Wednesday 23 January 1985”) [miners’ strike: situation report] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 23 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Armstrong briefing for MT (“Cabinet: Industrial Affairs: Coal”) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 24 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy briefing (“Daily Coal Report - Thursday 24 January 1985”) [miners’ strike: situation report] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 24 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Walker-King-Gregson) [“Coal Dispute”: NCB-NUM talks; NUM’s 'position still fell a long way short of what was needed for a satisfactory settlement'] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 24 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: FCO letter to Charles Powell (“Sequestrators’ Action”) [sequestration of NUM funds: interference by the Luxembourg Government] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 24 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: NUM Secretary Heathfield letter to NCB Director of Industrial Relations Ned Smith (miners' strike: NUM willing to negotiate with NCB) [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy briefing (“Daily Coal Report - Friday 25 January 1985”) [miners’ strike: situation report] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy letter to No.10 (“Power Station Endurance”) [miners’ strike: situation report] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“MISC 101(85) 4th Meeting: Coal”) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Redwood minute to MT (“The Coal Dispute”) [future of the coal industry and resolution of the miners' strike: 'Let’s not snatch defeat out of the jaws of victory'] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Wybrew minute to MT (“Coal - Millstone or Miracle?”) [future of the coal industry: 'The immediate human costs of [re-structuring the industry] would be large, but so would the corresponding gains in competitiveness'] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: No.10 Duty Clerk note to Turnbull (views of “Miners’ Wives Back to Work Campaign” on NUM-NCB talks) ['there should not be a rushed settlement'] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Turnbull note to MT (Welsh Secretary attending MISC101) [will press to attend regularly in the future] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: FCO letter to Charles Powell (“Luxembourg: NUM Receivership”) [talks with Luxembourg Ambassador over apparent Luxembourg intervention in sequestration of NUM funds: 'the [Luxembourg] government’s concern was not to intervene politically'] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: NCB representative Spanton letter to NUM Secretary Heathfield (miners' strike: NUM-NCB negotiations) ['essential to draft the parameters of the discussion at an informal meeting'] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 28 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy briefing (“Daily Coal Report - Monday 28 January 1985”) [miners’ strike: situation report] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 28 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy letter to No.10 (“Weekly Coal and Power Station Statistics”) [miners’ strike: situation report] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 28 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Redwood minute to MT (NCB chairmanship) [possible candidates] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 29 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy briefing (“Daily Coal Report - Tuesday 29 January 1985”) [miners’ strike: situation report] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 30 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy briefing (“Daily Coal Report - Wednesday 30 January 1985”) [miners’ strike: situation report] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 30 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Armstrong briefing for MT (“Cabinet: Industrial Affairs: Coal”) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 30 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Gregson note to MT (“Tests to be applied to a proposed settlement of the coal dispute”) [points to be conceded, secured and rejected] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 31 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy briefing (“Daily Coal Report - Thursday 31 January 1985”) [miners’ strike: situation report] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 31 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy briefing (“Power Station Endurance”) [miners’ strike: situation report] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jan 31 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Office of the Chief Secretary letter to No.10 (“Coal Strike and Spring Supplementary Estimates”) [costs of the coal strike] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 1 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy briefing (“Daily Coal Report - Friday 1 February 1985”) [miners’ strike: situation report] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 1 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (“MISC 101(85) 5th Meeting: Coal”) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 4 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy briefing (“Daily Coal Report - Monday 4 February 1985”) [miners’ strike: situation report] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 4 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy letter to No.10 (“Weekly Coal and Power Station Statistics”) [miners’ strike: situation report] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 4 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Armstrong minute to Walker (sequestration of NUM assets) [Armstrong's contacts with representative of sequestrators; concern that contact will be disclosed in court proceedings; involvement of Security Services in tracing NUM assets] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 4 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Havers-Brittan-Armstrong-Steel-Hosker) ["Coal Dispute: Sequestrator's Action in Dublin": discussion of case; concern at risk of disclosure of Security Service meeting with representative of sequestrator] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 4 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: MT letter to Pauline Linton of Miners' Wives Back to Work Campaign (miners' strike: NCB-NUM talks) [MT addressing Linton's concerns: 'there can be no fudging of the central issue, and no betrayal of the working miners'] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 5 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy briefing (“Daily Coal Report - Tuesday 5 February 1985”) [miners’ strike: situation report] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 5 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Henry Steel letter to Butler (“NUM: Sequestrators”) [update on proceedings in Dublin; concern about disclosure of HMG and Security Service meeting with representative of sequestrators] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy briefing (“Daily Coal Report - Wednesday 6 February 1985”) [miners’ strike: situation report] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Armstrong minute to MT (“Cabinet: Industrial Affairs: Coal”) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Jack Peel letter to MT (comments on the miners' strike and Scargill's position) ['busy organising his own survival'] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 7 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy briefing (“Daily Coal Report - Thursday 7 February 1985”) [miners’ strike: situation report] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 7 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy letter to No.10 (“Power Station Endurance”) [miners’ strike: situation report] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 7 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT (“Coal Industry Bill”) [timing of Bill introduction] [declassified 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 7 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: AP News Wire (“Kinnock supports negotiated settlement”) [miners' strike: '[negotiation] the only basis by which a settlement could be made to stick'] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 8 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Coal: Department of Energy briefing (“Daily Coal Report - Friday 8 February 1985”) [miners’ strike: situation report] [declassified Dec 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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