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Thatcher papers reveal her 'grimmest year'

Thousands of papers relating to perhaps the toughest year of Margaret Thatcher's premiership are to be opened to the public at Cambridge University's Churchill Archives Centre from Monday.

Great handbags – but what about the politics?

Audiences are spellbound by Meryl Streep's performance as Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady. As a PhD student looking at British politics in the same era, Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite was keen to see how the movie portrayed the woman who changed the face of Britain.

‘Picture This #5′ – Baroness Thatcher’s handbag, Churchill Archive Centre.

Belonging to a woman in a man's world there was intense curiosity and speculation about the contents of the Thatcher handbag.