Margaret, Baroness Thatcher

According to her later explanation, the dropping of poetry was a direct result of the policies of the Margaret Thatcher era: the result was that plans for a third volume of JK 's work from...

ML served as Vice-Chairman of the Arts Council for these four years, during the premiership of Margaret Thatcher .

Mary makes Lochhead's usual exuberant use of Scottish English. LL based Queen Elizabeth 's character on Margaret Thatcher (the Thatcher monster). In contrast to this topicality, as critic Anne Varty observes, her Queen...

HM collected a volume of nine stories, all published already and dating as far back as 1993, called The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher. The title piece, begun years before, was completed when Mantel, in...

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...

Pinter voted Tory in May 1979 (when Margaret Thatcher became Prime Minister) in reaction against trade union intransigence (which had threatened a play he was directing at the National Theatre ), and SDP in June...

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...

Don Smith was born in about 1924 and grew up in Newark, Nottinghamshire, where he came from a long line of psychics (he himself claimed to have woken up to see the ghost of...

At Inverness High School, as AS recalls, a flourishing and creative environment allowed her to explore writing through poetry and plays. Her first play, Peanuts (Unsalted), a characteristically political piece concerning Margaret, Baroness Thatcher Thatcherism and...

Early among these works by Smith was Stalemate (1986), her first Fringe feature, a take off of Thatcherism performed by a company of undergraduate women called Trouble and Strife.

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)...

The book's epigraph from Shakespeare 's The Tempest (What's past is prologue) provokes the narrator's question, how far back do you want? How far will do?What's past in this book...

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).

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...

This book of social history, which cites statistics to chart the decline of welfare provision during Margaret Thatcher 's prime ministership, is also full of personal witness: stories from Townsend's own life and the lives...