Janus: The Papers of Baroness Thatcher LG., OM., FRS.

Churchill/THCR 1 contains:
<-- See earlier
10	Foreign affairs material and foreign tour schedules, including papers for individual summits and conferences with world leaders
11	General election papers
12	Home affairs
13	Material from advisers
14	Parliamentary affairs
15	Policy and planning papers
16	Press cuttings
17	Speech and media transcripts
18	Selection of MT's correspondence formerly stored in her safe
19	"Files from MT's desk"
20	Falklands and other papers

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The Papers of Baroness Thatcher LG., OM., FRS.

Title	Family and personal memorabilia (which contains the vast majority of the material before 1970 in the entire collection)
Reference	THCR 1/9
Extent and Medium	3 archive boxes

Access and Use

Papers generally open to the end of 1982, see class lists and online catalogue for further information. Later material is currently closed.

Churchill/THCR 1/9 contains:

Printed volume of cartoons reproduced from the pages of "Fun", 1871-80.
1 volume.

1880

Chromo-lithograph of the Grand Hotel, Brighton, circa 1880.
1 item in folder.

1880

Photocopies of title deeds relating to a property owned by Alfred Roberts [MT's father] in Asfordby, Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire, October 1912 and June 1947. Forwarded to Conservative Central Office by Waller Needham & Green, solicitors of Peterborough, in March 1992.
1 bundle in folder.

1912–1947

Photograph of a group including Alfred and Beatrice Roberts [MT's parents]; with early family photographs of MT, DT, Mark and Carol Thatcher, circa 1917-circa 1962.
1 bundle in folder.

circa 1917-circa 1962

"Lost chord for organ", song by Arthur Sullivan, arranged for the organ by William Spark, date of publication uncertain, circa 1930s.
1 item in folder; Printed.

circa 1930

"The schools at work, being a pictorial survey of national education in England and Wales", printed by the National Union of Teachers, with accompanying letter from Fred Mander (General Secretary, NUT) to Councillor A. Roberts [MT's Father].
1 item in folder; Printed.

1934

MT's personal childhood copy of a special edition of Bibby's annual for 1936. See MT's comments on the annual in her second volume of memoirs, "The path to Power" (1995, p.7).
1 item in folder.

1936

Papers relating to MT's school days in Grantham, Lincolnshire, 1942-93. Includes: a photocopy of a sheet signed by MT [as the then Margaret Roberts] and the other prefects of the Kesteven and Grantham Girls' School, February 1942 (forwarded to MT in 1993); a photocopy of a letter from Alfred Roberts [MT's father] (April 1945); press cuttings relating to MT dated 1969, 1973, 1983, 1987, 1990; and MT's handwritten notes on an envelope on her schooldays, possibly circa 1993, for use in the compilation of her memoirs.
1 bundle in folder.

1942–1993

MT's school notebooks, one marked "Qualitative chemistry, 28/4/42" (mostly empty), with enclosed papers including religious tracts and notes prepared by Alfred Roberts [MT's father], and a separate mathematics notebook (undated). Includes: religious notes by Alfred Roberts, 1942-ca. 1950; and MT's annotated copy of the "Methodist Catechism", ca. 1944.
1 manila box containing 2 notebooks and 1 bundle.

1942-circa 1944

Photocopy of a report co-authored by MT by the O.U.C.A. [Oxford University Conservative Association] Policy Sub-Committee, Michaelmas Term, 1945. Removed from (as yet uncatalogued) photocopied material collected in preparation for MT's memoirs (THCR 4/4) by the cataloguing archivist, January 2004.
1 item in folder.

1945

"The history of The Sixth Battalion The Lincolnshire Regt." (February 1946) and "Flying colours, a civic tribute to the 6th Battalion The Lincolnshire Regiment" (Borough of Grantham, 21 September 1946).
1 bundle containing 2 items; Printed.

February 1946-September 1946

Article by D. Ll. Hammick and MT [as the then Margaret Roberts], from Dyson Perrins Laboratory, Oxford, for the Journal of the Chemical Society. "Some Catalysed Gas-phase Reactions of Aromatic Hydrocarbons. Part II: The Interaction of Benzyne and Ethylene" (which appeared in the Journal in 1948), 14 February 1947; with covering note for MT, September 1993.
1 folder containing 2 items.

1948–1993

Press-cutting, 1985, covering the golden wedding celebrations of Raymond and Lucy Woollcott, MT's former landlords in Dartford, Kent, sent to MT in ca. 1992; with originals of MT's letters to the Woollcotts, 1951, 1952, 1975 and 1987.
1 bundle in folder.

1951–1987

Photocopied extract from the Paint Federation Journal, including a biography of DT, then Chairman of the Federation's London Association, May 1950.
1 item in folder.

May 1950

Photocopy of an article by HHG Jellinek and MT [as the then Margaret Roberts], submitted from Lyons Laboratories, Hammersmith, London. Submitted for the Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture, "The saponification of a-monostearin in a monolayer", (which appeared in the Journal in September 1951), 5 January 1951 (date received by journal). With a photograph of MT and her research colleagues (ca. 1951), and an attached letter for MT from 'CS [Caroline Stephens]', 27 July 1982, reporting that Dr Jellinek had sent in the article and photograph.
1 bundle in folder.

1951–1982

Photocopy of the invitation issued for the wedding of MT [as the then Margaret Roberts] and DT at Wesley's Chapel, City Road, London on 13 December 1951; copies of the wedding service and the address by the Rev. Spivey.
1 bundle in folder.

1951

Printed copy of a speech given by Governor (Ronald) Reagan of California, "The new noblesse oblige", to the Institute of Directors' annual conference, Royal Albert Hall, London, 1969.
1 item in folder.

1969

First day cover of stamps released by the Post Office to commemorate the centenary of the birth of Sir Winston Churchill, 9 October 1974.
1 item in folder.

October 1974

Photographs of MT being interviewed by Brian Walden, for London Weekend Television's "Weekend World" programme, ? 6 January 1980.
1 bundle in folder.

1980

Norman Parkinson's studio photograph of MT, signed by her, June 1981?.
1 item in folder.

1981

18A

Miscellaneous original documents removed from MT's papers relating to the compilation of her memoirs (THCR 4/3-4). Part 1, 1976: includes copy of Report of the Committee of Privy Councillors on Ministerial memoirs, chaired by Lord Radcliffe (HMSO, Cmnd 6386, January 1976). Part 2, 1981: includes paper for MT from Lord Thorneycroft (Party Chairman) on "The public image of the Government and Party", 19 January 1981; with attached note for MT from Ian Gow MP (her Parliamentary Private Secretary), same date. Part 3, 1982 includes: service sheet for RNLI memorial service in Truro Cathedral, 15 February 1982; letters of congratulation on the success of the Falklands war from Rex Hunt (Governor, Falklands Islands) and Prime Minister (Pierre) Trudeau of Canada, both June 1982; handwritten note for MT from Robert Armstrong (Cabinet Secretary), attaching a related note on a proposed Foreign Policy Unit, August 1982; and papers relating to Hong Kong, September 1982 (with records of meetings between MT and officials of the Executive Council of Hong Kong on 26 September 1982, with unofficial members of the Executive Council and businessmen, 27 September 1982; and with Sir YK Pao, 28 September 1982).
3 folders open; 16 currently closed.

1976–1982