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PDF 88 Nov 4 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Paul Gray minute to MT ("Economic Statistics Next Week") [relatively thin week for statistics - M0 figures moving in the right direction], but "a very long way to go" [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 88 Nov 7 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Douglas Hurd minute to John Wakeham ("Increases in the Monetary Limits on Lotteries under the Lotteries and Amusements Act 1976") [proposed changes and consultations] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 88 Nov 7 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Carolyn Sinclair minute to MT ("Increases in the Monetary Limits on Lotteries under the Lotteries and Amusements Act 1976") [Hurd's proposed changes] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 88 Nov 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Richard Luce minute to Douglas Hurd ("Increases in the Monetary Limits on Lotteries") [would have liked to see bigger stakes] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 88 Nov 11 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Nicholas Ridley minute to Douglas Hurd (Monetary Limits on Lotteries) [content with proposal] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 88 Nov 11 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Malcolm Rifkind minute to Douglas Hurd ("Increases in Monetary Limits on Lotteries under the Lotteries and Amusements Act 1976") [content for the same increases to apply in Scotland] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 88 Nov 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Nigel Wicks record of conversation (Wicks, Alan Walters) [Walters's contract; economic conditions; CGT; US economic policy] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 88 Nov 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Inland Revenue minute ("Determination of Composite Rate for 1989/90") [proposed 1.5 per cent cut in tax on savings interest] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 88 Nov 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Tom King minute to Douglas Hurd ("Increases in Monetary Limits on Lotteries under the Lotteries and Amusements Act 1976") [no objection to proposal from a Northern Ireland standpoint] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 88 Nov 25 Fr Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Lawson minute to MT ("An Independent Central Bank") [MT: "NO" - inflation not defeated] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 88 Nov 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Nigel Wicks minute to MT ("An Independent Central Bank") ["the most radical proposal to come from the Treasury during your time in Government"] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 88 Nov 28 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Sir Peter Middleton NIESR lecture ("Economic Policy Formulation in the Treasury in the Post-War Period") [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 88 Nov 30 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Paul Gray minute to MT ("Meeting with Sir Alan Walters") [quite content with policy stance, article criticising sterilised intervention; Gordon Brown comments] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 88 Dec 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: John Wakeham minute to Douglas Hurd ("Increases in Monetary Limits on Lotteries under the Lotteries and Amusements Act 1976") [ministers' views on consultations and limits] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 88 Dec 6 Tu Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Lawson) [MT refuses to consider an independent Central Bank until inflation reduced to "a very low level" and kept there, perhaps in four years] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 88 Dec 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Brian Griffiths minute to MT ("The Economy: Confusing Signals") [must reduce inflation to 3 per cent or less by 1990, take medicine now rather than delay; resist Lawson or Bank worries and let sterling rise to 3.35DM "before being worried about overkill"] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 88 Dec 13 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Paul Gray minute to MT ("HM Treasury's Monthly Monetary Assessment") [contradictory evidence on consumer spending; housing market has slowed down, but not M0 on annual basis] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Jan 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Lawson PS minute to Paul Gray (Treasury weekly brief) [figures on earnings and taxation] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Jan 17 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Lawson PS minute to Paul Gray (total tax burden) [reasons for rise in tax burden] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Feb 27 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Paul Gray minute to MT ("Position in the Markets") ["a rather rocky day"; Eddie George's views, given in confidence] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Mar 15 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Paul Gray note to MT (meeting with Walters) [briefing; meeting cancelled] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Mar 21 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Treasury minute for Chancellor ("Provisional Money Figures - February 1989") [little significance should be read into declining NIBM1] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Mar 31 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Paul Gray minute to MT ("The Markets and the Latest Economic Figures") [sterling better than feared in light of Wednesday's trade figures; markets waiting for G7 meeting; upcoming economic statistics] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Apr 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Paul Gray minute to MT ("Market Report") [markets were in "a slightly rocky mood this afternoon"] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Apr 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Paul Gray minute to MT ("Tomorrow's Economic Figures") [consumer spending figures suggest "some degree of slow down"] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 May 12 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Foreign Secretary PS to Lawson PS ("Guinness Mahon") [Japanese bid for the merchant bank cleared by Chancellor] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 May 15 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Paul Gray minute to MT ("Evening Report") [strength of sterling in light of the budget] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 May 19 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Turnbull) [MT had no intention of criticising Lawson directly; line agreed for the press] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 May 20 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: No.10 record of phone conversation (MT-Chancellor of the Exchequer) [Lawson calls re: press reports of MT's comments on pick-up in inflation and shadowing the DM; press handling] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 May 22 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Andrew Turnbull minute to MT ("Why Do We Have 8 Per Cent Inflation?") [Alan Budd's analysis, very similar to Burns's; problems date back to 1985-86; errors not of the Chancellor alone but of Government as a whole] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 May 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Paul Gray minute to MT ("Latest RPI Forecast") [another upward revision] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 May 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Paul Gray note to MT ("Chancellor's Radio Interviews") [Lawson: sterling under pressure, notably from strong dollar, forcing interest rate increase] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 May 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Lawson) [agreed 1 per cent increase in interest rates at 0945] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 May 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Paul Gray minute to MT ("Today's Markets") [strength of dollar and DM] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 May 31 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Andrew Turnbull minute to MT ("Markets") ["Sterling remains vulnerable and sentiment is poor"; if Bundesbank raise rates tomorrow, sterling will come under "strong pressure"] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Jun 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Paul Gray minute to Alan Walters ("Funding Policy/Inflation") [reports of a change in policy; work on failure to reduce further rate of inflation] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Jun 12 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Lawson PS minute to Paul Gray ("The Recent Rise in Inflation" - "Points for Prime Minister's Questions") [inflation at an unacceptable level; monetary policy has been too loose at times, as in the period after Black Monday] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Jun 12 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Paul Gray minute to MT ("Chancellor's 'On the Record' Interview and Appearance Before the TCSC") [ERM membership the focus at TCSC] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Jun 12 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Paul Gray minute to MT ("Treasury Paper on the Causes of the Present Inflation") [paper now delivered, too late to be used at PMQs; best wait till discussed with Lawson] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Jun 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Paul Gray minute to MT ("Today's Market Report") [Bank intervened to hold sterling down, without reference to Treasury] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Jun 22 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Paul Gray minute to MT ("Markets") [Sterling under serious pressure, no particular factor] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Jun 23 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Chancellor of the Exchequer) [lack of progress in reducing rate of inflation - MT asks for Treasury assessment] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Jun 28 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Andrew Turnbull minute to Paul Gray (meeting with Chancellor and Treasury on reducing inflation) [Middleton wants prescriptions for future policy not just the past; six possible topics on the history side] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Jun 29 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Treasury minute ("Treasury Economic Forecast") [economic growth, monetary policy, inflation] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Jun 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Paul Gray minute to MT ("Meeting with Chancellor and Treasury Officials: Wednesday 5 July") ["where did we go wrong over the last 2-3 years with inflation?"] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Jul 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Lawson-Middleton-Burns-Griffiths) [economic performance and prospects - Treasury papers on the recent rise in inflation and economic forecast] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Jul 6 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Paul Gray minute to Alan Walters ("Economic Performance and Prospects") [asks for him to prepare note on sterilisation of 1987-88 intervention; what did the damage, intervention or interest rates?] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Jul 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Paul Gray minute to MT ("Intervention, Sterilisation and Funding") [Walters accepts intervention WAS sterilised; real problem was that interest rates were kept too low in order to keep sterling at DM3] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Jul 16 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Andrew Turnbull minute to Alan Walters ("Intervention and Sterilisation") [agrees with Walters' main conclusion that interest rates were too low] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 89 Jul 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Monetary Policy: Alan Walters minute to Andrew Turnbull ("Intervention and Sterilisation - 1987-1988") ["I remain convinced that unsterilised intervention did contribute to monetary growth in 1987-88"] [declassified Dec 2016]

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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