Scope and Contents Recipients include: President of the Board of Trade, Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister [earlier Sir Philip Lloyd-Greame, later 1st Lord Swinton] (3); F Stanley Jackson [Chairman of the Conservative and Unionist Party]; Count Guiseppe Volpi [Italian Minister of Finance] (2); Wilfrid Ashley [later 1st Lord Mount Temple, Minister of Transport] (2); Sir Robert Horne [later 1st Lord Slamannan]; Leo Amery [Secretary of State for the Colonies] (4); Sir James Craig [later 1st Lord Craigavon, Prime Minister...

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Correspondents include: Donald Fergusson [Private Secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer]; Sir Russell Scott [Controller, Treasury]; James Grigg [Principal Private Secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer].Also includes cutting from the Daily Telegraph.Subjects covered by the file include: civil servants joining the General Strike and being affiliated to the TUC; proposed legislation on the affiliation of civil service associations to outside industrial and political bodies.

Scope and Contents Includes carbon copies of minutes and letters from WSC to various individuals, mainly Treasury officials, including: James Grigg [Principal Private Secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer]; Donald Fergusson [Private Secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer]; Sir Horace Hamilton [Chairman, Board of Customs and Excise]; Sir George Barstow [Controller of Supply Services]; Sir Richard Hopkins [Chairman of the Board of Inland Revenue]; Sir Russell Scott [Controller]; Sir Warren Fisher...

Scope and Contents Includes minutes of a meeting of the Committee on the Limitation of Armaments; a War Office memorandum on WSC's and other appointments; copy of Army Orders for 1919; copies of telegrams from the Adjutant-General [Lieutenant-General Sir George Macdonogh] on potential police strikes; RAF demobilisation form; precis on the Roger Casement letters; outline of scheme of army reorganisation; notes from Sir Archibald Sinclair [later 1st Lord Thurso], Personal Military Secretary to the Secretary...

Scope and Contents Includes carbon copies of minutes (and telegrams) from WSC to various individuals including: Secretary [War Office, Sir Reginald Brade]; 1st Lord Peel [Under-Secretary of State for War]; Chief of Imperial General Staff [General Sir Henry Wilson]; Sir Herbert Creedy; Deputy Chief of Imperial General Staff [Major-General Charles Harington]; Chief of the Air Staff [Air-Marshal Sir Hugh Trenchard]; Major-General Fabian Ware; [David Lloyd George]; Andrew Bonar Law [Lord Privy Seal]; Director of...

Scope and Contents Includes material on picketing, including MT’s handwritten notes and paper from Ian Percival MP on picketing regulations, January 1979, ahead of a meeting hosted by MT on Emergency Powers on Sunday 21 January 1979 at her Flood Street home; and notes on the Ford Motor Company strike, including letter to MT from Sir Terence Beckett (Chairman, Ford), November 1978 Also includes papers relating to a proposed coal mine in the Vale of Belvoir, December 1976, and correspondence with Kenneth...

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Includes crisis reports from daily newspapers; and briefing notes from the Conservative Research Department and Chambers of Commerce
Also includes copies of CBI situation reports relating to industrial action during the "Winter of Discontent": 16 January (report no 10); 17 January (report no 11); 18 January (report no 12-14); 19 January (report no 15); 23 January (unnumbered); 25 January (report no 25); and 2 February (report no 29)

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Includes correspondence forwarded to MT from MPs and their constituents

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Includes note of messages received by MT on this subject, with note by Matthew Parris, of MT’s Private Office, on MT's television appearances, January 1979
Also includes a bundle of press releases by Conservative Central Office, mainly relating to speeches by MT's Opposition front bench colleagues, January-February 1979
Also includes MT’s correspondence with Tom Boardman (President, Association of British Chambers of Commerce)

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Includes: MT's handwritten annotations
Includes: drafts of MT statement in the House of Commons in a motion of no confidence in government economic policy, 31 July 1984, including draft speech contributions from 'John R [? John Redwood, Head, MT's Policy Unit'], 'W.J.B. [John Biffen MP, Lord Privy Seal]', and Lord (Arthur) Cockfield (Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster)

Scope and Contents Includes: suggested speaking notes for MT from Ronnie Millar, 16 July 1984; note for MT from 'AT [Andrew Turnbull, her Principal Private Secretary]', "Jack Peel’s views on the coal strike", 17 July 1984, with attached letter to MT from Peel, 16 July 1984; note for MT from Michael Alison MP, 18 July 1984, attaching papers from Alfred Sherman, including a memorandum on the strike from Douglas Eden, 16 July 1984, with related papers; and a note from Peter Shipley (MT's Policy Unit) to 'Mr...

Scope and Contents From the Series: This series describes the contents of the personal filing kept by Margaret Thatcher’s while at No 10 Downing Street and are items which were of particular interest or importance to her. Many of these papers complement or are duplicated in other series. This personal files series was added to after her departure from Downing Street in 1990. There are some papers from Margaret Thatcher's early political career (1949-), but generally very little before she became Prime Minister in 1979....

Scope and Contents Includes: memorandum from John Redwood (Head, PM's Policy Unit) on the miners' and dock strikes, August 1984; copy of letter from Ian MacGregor (Chairman, National Coal Board) to (Lionel) "Len" Murray (General Secretary, Trades Union Congress), August 1984; list of profitable and non-profitable pits, September 1984; memorandum from Redwood on the coal industry, September 1984; copies of MT's correspondence with David Hart, Jack Peel and Lord (Harold) Watkinson relating to the...

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Includes: MT's handwritten notes on history of liberty, notes possibly for her 1984 conference speech; publication by Peter Shipley, "Extremism and the Left" (July 1981, Conservative Research Department); Conservative Research Department biographical notes and quotes relating to Arthur Scargill (President, National Union of Mineworkers), August 1984; and other press cuttings relating to Scargill, 1983-84

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Miscellaneous press cuttings relating to the strike, with attached notes for MT from Bernard Ingham (her Chief Press Secretary) and 'A.T. [Andrew Turnbull, her Private Secretary for Economic Affairs]', 1984

Scope and Contents Includes MT’s handwritten annotations IIncludes publications, press releases etc issued by the CBI; and correspondence with Sir John Greenborough (President, CBI) and John Methven (Director General, CBI) Also includes CBI situation reports relating to industrial action during the "Winter of Discontent": 14 January (copy unnumbered); 16 January (report no 9); report 15 did not exist, sequence mis-numbered; 20 January (reports no 18-20); 21 January (report no 21); 22 January...

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Includes correspondence with Robert Adley MP, Geoffrey Finsberg MP and John Gouriet (National Association for Freedom); and situation reports for 22 June 1977 and 11 July 1977, including one for 11 July by Robbie Gilbert (Conservative Research Department)
Also includes a letter to MT from Edward du Cann MP about "liaison between the Parliamentary Party and our colleagues who are Members of the European Parliament", 12 May 1977 (possibly filed in error)

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Files on subjects from 'C' to 'W'.

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Sir James Hawkey, Vice-Chairman of Epping Division Conservative Association (6); Geoffrey Lloyd [Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Home Office] on ARP; Sir Edward Warner on the Connaught Hospital, Walthamstow [London]; Loftus Wigram on the Coal Bill; Lord Esme Gordon-Lennox [Secretary to the Lord Great Chamberlain] on a visit to the Houses of Parliament by constituents; Frederick Wooding, Secretary of the Royal Wanstead [Essex] School, formerly the Royal Infant...

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: representatives of Woodford Conservative Association including Sir James Hawkey, Chairman, on subjects including the rebuilding of a local school (14), W Hubert Barlow-Wheeler, Honorary Secretary and Agent (14) and "Kath", Kathleen Kemp, Secretary to the Agent (4); M E Blackman, Assistant Private Secretary to the Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries (7); Bernard Atha, Education Officer, RAF Chigwell [Essex] (3); Gordon Wilson, Assistant Private Secretary to the...

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Footage of various sessions of Prime Minister’s Questions, with subjects including strikes by ambulance drivers, inflation, pay levels and incomes policy, the Poll Tax, the effect of high interest rates, football ID cards and the privatisation of PowerGen. Also includes a statement by Margaret Thatcher on the increase in the Civil List.

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Recording of Prime Minister’s Questions between NK and Margaret Thatcher, taken from the Parliamentary Sound Archives (side 1 of cassette only). Subjects include: the Poll Tax; Europe; inflation; the Tiananmen Square protest, China; the state of the London Underground; the rail dispute; privatisation of the energy industry.

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: William Reid, Lord Provost of Aberdeen [Scotland] on WSC's visit there in 1952; David Pitblado [Principal Private Secretary to Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden] (3); Frank Glaves-Smith [Principal Private Secretary to President of the Board of Trade]; Konrad Adenauer [Federal Chancellor of Germany]; Sir Frederick Hoyer Millar [later 1st Lord Inchrya, British Ambassador to West Germany, later part of Germany]; John Perrin, [Principal] Private Secretary to Minister of...

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: 5th Lord Munster [earlier Geoffrey FitzClarence], George [Hubback], Metropolitan of India and Bishop of Calcutta (3), and Desmond Crawley (High Commission, Calcutta), on Anglo-Indians educating their children in the UK; 1st Lord Sandford [earlier Albert Edmondson, Chairman] of the Carlton Club (2); 1st Lord Woolton [earlier Frederick Marquis, Chairman, Conservative and Unionist Central Office] (5); Clifford Hood, President, Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corporation; Robert...

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: "Bobbety" [5th Lord Salisbury, earlier Robert Gascoyne Cecil and Lord Cranborne] and Leo Amery on Cabinet positions in the event of a Conservative election victory; Sir Arthur Salter; Duncan Sandys on his visit to Yugoslavia [later Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, and Slovenia] and Marshal Tito; 1st Lord Woolton [earlier Frederick Marquis, Chairman, Conservative and Unionist Central Office] (10); Sir Geoffrey Shakespeare,...