Margaret, Baroness Thatcher

Standard Name: Thatcher, Margaret,,, Baroness
Used Form: Margaret Thatcher

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Textual Features Fleur Adcock
The new poems at the end of this volume evidence the power and versatility that FA had reached by now. They include poems about death, dreams, erotic feeling, tiny incidents in her own and others'...
Textual Features Fleur Adcock
Here public themes become more important, especially in the Thatcher land series. Other poems are concerned with the depiction of character, especially with women and girls, real and imaginary.
politics Gillian Allnutt
In the ten houses which comprised Richmond Avenue Housing (off the Caledonian Road) GA and the other members of the co-op lived as squatters and then as short-life tenants under the Greater London Council
Friends, Associates Nina Bawden
NB was a contemporary at Somerville of the future Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher , with whom she had a political argument (which she felt that she lost). She was very briefly a friend of actor...
Textual Features Nina Bawden
Daring to look at my work as a whole,NB said, she discerned a social and political sub-text . . . that a sociologist might call the rise and fall of the welfare state. In...
Characters Caryl Churchill
The play explores women's quest for success in patriarchal society, and the expense at which this success is achieved, particularly in relation to motherhood. It has been considered as a kind of answer to Nell Dunn
Material Conditions of Writing Sarah Daniels
SD later observed that during the 1980s, her debut decade, the stage was becoming a harsher environment as the wave of radicalism ebbed and conditions worsened. Margaret Thatcher (who became Prime Minister on 4 May...
Textual Features Margaret Drabble
After harking back to the days in which eminent authors were not public figures, she amusingly described the culture of public performance which arose during the 1960s. Highlights in her narrative were the first Writers'...
politics Carol Ann Duffy
CAD is a socialist and a feminist. She nevertheless describes herself as less political than most of her relations (except, perforce, during the Margaret Thatcher years), as if her energy had gone into poetry instead...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Zoë Fairbairns
Among other women on the initial course, Ann Mitchison from the north of England goes from her dream of self-employment selling the mechanical models which her son constructs (eminently saleable, but not at a profit)...
politics Antonia Fraser
In December 1978 AF voted Conservative, knowing little about Margaret Thatcher but excited by the idea of a woman becoming Prime Minister for the first time. She later regretted it. In the 1980s she and...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Antonia Fraser
This book (which covers the span from the queen of its title to the recent or current regimes of Margaret Thatcher , Golda Meir , and Indira Gandhi ) looks historically at the inbuilt contradictions...
Publishing Germaine Greer
Fairly typical of GG 's recent journalism in many different venues are a sizzling analysis of Margaret Thatcher and the nature and effects of Thatcherism published in the Guardian Weekly on 24 April 2009, and...
politics Patricia Highsmith
PH 's political opinions were riddled with contradictions. On some issues she was a reactionary, even a racist. Yet she took intensely to heart such incidents of individual or international violence as the shooting of...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Jackie Kay
The volume is divided into two parts. The first, The Adoption Papers, uses three distinct typefaces to distinguish the poem's three speakers: a daughter, her adoptive mother, and her birth mother. Based on JK

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November 1955: At a time when economic orthodoxy was by...

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November 1955

At a time when economic orthodoxy was by consensus Keynes ian, a deed of trust was signed for setting up the Institute of Economic Affairs , the UK's original free-market think-tank.
“About the IEA”. IEA (Institute of Economic Affairs).
Clarke, Peter. “Knights’ Moves”. London Review of Books, pp. 11-14.
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8 October 1959: In the general election the Conservatives...

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8 October 1959

In the general election the Conservatives under Harold Macmillan increased their majority. Margaret Thatcher (who had first stood for the safe Labour seat of Dartford in 1950) was elected Conservative member of parliament for Finchley.

1960: The Public Bodies (Admission of the Press...

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1960

The Public Bodies (Admission of the Press to Meetings) Act took a large step towards open government in Britain.

1967: Margaret Thatcher, Conservative Member of...

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1967

Margaret Thatcher , Conservative Member of Parliament for Finchley, was appointed to the Shadow Cabinet .

16 July 1967: The first Legalize Pot Rally was held in...

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16 July 1967

The first Legalize Pot Rally was held in Hyde Park, London, under the auspices of an organization called Soma , often written as SOMA.

30 June 1970: Margaret Thatcher, soon after taking office...

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30 June 1970

Margaret Thatcher , soon after taking office as Minister of Education (Conservative), gave Local Education Authorities freedom to halt or reverse progress towards comprehensive schools.

By 14 October 1971: Mary Whitehouse, general secretary of the...

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By 14 October 1971

Mary Whitehouse , general secretary of the National Viewers' and Listeners' Association , published Who Does She Think She Is?

4 May 1979: The day after the Conservatives' victory...

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4 May 1979

The day after the Conservatives' victory in the general election, Margaret Thatcher (leader of the Conservative party since 1975) became the first woman Prime Minister of Britain; her government succeeded to the Labour administration of...

3 October 1980: The Housing Act passed by Margaret Thatcher's...

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3 October 1980

The Housing Act passed by Margaret Thatcher 's recently-elected Conservative government came into effect, giving five million council house tenants in England and Wales the right to buy their homes from local authorities

10 October 1980: Margaret Thatcher, at her second Conservative...

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10 October 1980

Margaret Thatcher , at her second Conservative Party Conference as Prime Minister, facing the threat of revolt within her party and her Cabinet, delivered a strong speech which proved a turning-point.

1981: Government funding of British universities...

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1981

Government funding of British universities was savagely reduced by Margaret Thatcher 's Conservative government: a roughly 11% cut across the board rose to 20% at several institutions.

March 1981: Activist Darcus Howe led about 10,000 people...

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March 1981

Activist Darcus Howe led about 10,000 people in a protest march to 10 Downing Street (London headquarters of of the Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher ) to protest about alleged racism both of criminals and of...

Summer 1981: In this bad season for Northern Ireland,...

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Summer 1981

In this bad season for Northern Ireland, the perceived intransigence of Margaret Thatcher 's British government helped the IRA to increase its support.

9 June 1983: Michael Foot, leader of the Labour Party,...

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9 June 1983

Michael Foot , leader of the Labour Party , signally failed in the general election to shake the reign of Tory Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher . He was soon afterwards replaced as party leader by Welshman Neil Kinnock .

1984: Prominent designer Katherine Hamnett caused...

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1984

Prominent designer Katherine Hamnett caused deliberate political offence by wearing a T-shirt sporting an anti-nuclear slogan for meeting with Margaret Thatcher .

Texts

Margaret, Baroness Thatcher,. The lady’s not for turning. Guardian News and Media, 2007.