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Portrait of Margaret Thatcher

The lady is for turning (and reversing) – Thatcher archives for 1986 open to the public

23 Jan 2017

Margaret Thatcher’s isolation over Westland and the US bombing of Libya – as well as fears about the standards of her driving – are among the...

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Handbag owned by Baroness Thatcher (THCR 9/1/1)

'Picture This #5' - Baroness Thatcher's handbag, Churchill Archive Centre.

14 Sep 2011

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

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1984 Port Talbot Miners Strike

Brave New World?

17 Sep 2009

British trade unionism was not undermined by Margaret Thatcher, but by the dawn of a new, brutally competitive age that weakened it dramatically in...

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