Thatcher, Margaret Hilda Prime Ministers Parliament History Society and Culture United Kingdom
Thatcher, Margaret Hilda Prime Ministers Parliament History Society and Culture United Kingdom
Margaret Hilda Thatcher (nee Roberts), born in 1925, was the first woman to serve as prime minister of Great Britain, and its longest serving prime minister. Thatcher retired from politics in 1992. She is now Baroness Thatcher of Kesteven.
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BBC News - Evaluating Thatcher's legacy - Voices from across the political spectrum weigh up Margaret Thatcher's legacy.
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National Review: Margaret Thatcher and the Revival of the West - An article by U.S. President Ronald Reagan crediting Thatcher with inspiring and reinvigorating Western civilisation.
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Was Mrs Thatcher Evil? - From the Guardian, readers comments from the Notes and Queries section.
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Booknotes: Margaret Thatcher - Transcript of a C-SPAN interview of Lady Thatcher discussing her memoirs, entitled "The Downing Street Years."
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General Election 3 May 1979 - BBC Politics 97 - Report on the watershed 1979 election. Includes streaming audio of speeches by Margaret Thatcher and Jim Callaghan.
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BBC - History - Margaret Thatcher (1925 - ) - Brief biography.
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How Many People Did Thatcher Kill? - Thatcher and the ethics of the free market in Europe, in the light of recent evidence of its killing power.
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C-SPAN Booknotes: Chris Ogden - A 1990 interview with the author of the biography "Maggie: An Intimate Portrait of a Woman in Power," discussing both the writing of the book and its subject.
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On Principle: Margaret Thatcher and the Rebirth of Conservatism - Article by Stephen Davies on Thatcher's role in the historical ideological divide, in the journal of the John M. Ashbrook Centre for Public Affairs.
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TIME 100 - Margaret Thatcher - Biographical profile of Thatcher, from the series "Leaders and Revolutionaries" of the 20th century.
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Margaret Thatcher, Britain's Prime Minister - A fan site which offers fun facts, timeline and list of famous deeds, and bibliography.
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BBC News - The Thatcher years in statistics - The Thatcher era of 1979-90 was a time of great social and economic change in Britain. Use this guide to explore what happened during her 11 years in power.
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BBC Four: Audio Interviews - Margaret Thatcher - Extracts from BBC interviews with Margaret Thatcher in Real Audio format.
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Margaret Thatcher Foundation - Offers free access to the full texts of thousands of documents relating to the politics of the last quarter of a century
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Wikipedia: Margaret Thatcher - Biography and look at her career and legacy.
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Frontline: Interview with Margaret Thatcher - An interview on the PBS talk show on the prosecution and outcome of the 1991 Persian Gulf War.
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CNN: Interview with Margaret Thatcher - Transcript of Bernard Shaw's 1997 interview with Lady Thatcher discussing Hong Kong and Western relations with China.
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Leadership and Change: Prime Ministers in the Post-War World - Thatcher - Lecture by Professor Keith Middlemas. Full text, audio and video files.
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