Margaret, Baroness Thatcher

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

Connections

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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
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...
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...
Textual Features Sheenagh Pugh
Many of the poems in this volume, written during the 1980s under Margaret Thatcher 's polarizing government, when SPseemed to be constantly angry about politics, are strongly partisan, delivering a clear political message which...
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'...
Textual Features Sue Townsend
Adrian Mole lives in Ashby-de-la-Zouch (a town whose name is seen by people living elsewhere as a joke in itself), and his teenage angst and his self-importance were a joke to readers though not to...
Textual Features Timberlake Wertenbaker
The play was at its outset a retelling of the story of Philoctetes, the Greek hero whom Odysseus abandons on an island but then has to lure back into his service in order to help...
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.
Textual Features Liz Lochhead
Mary makes Lochhead's usual exuberant use of Scottish English. LL based Queen Elizabeth 's character on Margaret Thatcher (the Thatcher monster).
Varty, Anne. “The Mirror and the Vamp: Liz Lochhead”. A History of Scottish Women’s Writing, edited by Douglas Gifford and Dorothy McMillan, Edinburgh University Press, pp. 641-58.
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In contrast to this topicality, as critic Anne Varty observes, her Queen...
Textual Features Ruth Padel
Angel's focus on madness has been explained in several ways. Perhaps it is there because Padel was also working at this time on Whom Gods Destroy, an academic book about madness (which these...
Textual Production Ali Smith
The Seer was originally commissioned in 2000 for the Highland Theatre Festival. After an offer of 6000 (pounds) or something, it ended on the back burner as result of insufficient funds and its (alleged)...
Textual Production Sue Townsend
ST published True Confessions of Adrian Albert Mole, Margaret Hilda Roberts and Susan Lilian Townsend (in the same year as her overtly political Mr. Bevan 's Dream).
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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)...
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...

Timeline

From March or April 1984: The National Union of Mineworkers or NUM,...

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From March or April 1984

The National Union of Mineworkers or NUM, led by Arthur Scargill , struck against pit closures by Margaret Thatcher 's Tory government, which retaliated with riot police and efforts to make non-local pickets illegal.

21 June 1984: Midsummer was celebrated at Stonehenge in...

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21 June 1984

Midsummer was celebrated at Stonehenge in Wiltshire by 70,000 people at the tenth annual Stonehenge Free Festival : by early twenty-first century no bigger free festival than this had been held in Britain.

12 October 1984: The IRA bombed the Grand Hotel in Brighton...

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12 October 1984

The IRA bombed the Grand Hotel in Brighton where the Conservative Party was holding a conference.

11 March 1985: Mikhail Gorbachev was named Secretary of...

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11 March 1985

Mikhail Gorbachev was named Secretary of the Soviet Communist party, becoming leader of the Soviet Union.

13 June 1985: Conrad Black, on his way to becoming the...

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13 June 1985

Conrad Black , on his way to becoming the third Canadian press baron to dominate British newspapers, acquired for £10 million a minority stake in the Daily and Sunday Telegraph, with the proviso of...

1986: Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher abolished...

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1986

Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher abolished the Greater London Council or GLC (then headed by socialist maverick Ken Livingstone ), leaving London as the world's largest city with no central metropolitan authority.

1986: In the Conservative climate of both the Thatcher...

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1986

In the Conservative climate of both the Thatcher and Reagan administrations, Mary Douglas published How Institutions Think, concerned with theoretical and anthropological questions of justice, solidarity, and collective provision for individual needs.

11 June 1987: In the general election the Conservative...

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11 June 1987

In the general election the Conservative Party under Margaret Thatcher retained power, though with a somewhat reduced majority.

1989: Margaret Thatcher blocked a study into the...

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1989

Margaret Thatcher blocked a study into the sex life of 20,000 adults that had been set up to assist in preventing the spread of HIV.

31 March 1990: A huge march and demonstration against the...

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31 March 1990

A huge march and demonstration against the new Community Tax (the so-called Poll Tax) was held at Trafalgar Square in London.

28 November 1990: Margaret Thatcher resigned (having lost in...

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28 November 1990

Margaret Thatcher resigned (having lost in a ballot for party leader on the 20th), and John Major became Prime Minister and leader of the Conservative party.

October 1999: The Greater London Authority Act received...

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October 1999

The Greater London Authority Act received Royal Assent, re-establishing a democratically elected authority for London, and introducing the new, elected position of Mayor of London.

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