Biographies, authorised or otherwise
Abse, L, Margaret, daughter of Beatrice : a politician’s psychobiography of Margaret Thatcher (Jonathan Cape, London: 1989).
Campbell, J, Margaret Thatcher Vol.1. The Grocer’s Daughter (Jonathan Cape, London: 2000).
——, Margaret Thatcher Vol. 2. The Iron Lady (Jonathan Cape, London: 2003).
Cosgrave, P, Margaret Thatcher : Prime Minister (Arrow Books, London: 1978).
Murray, P, Margaret Thatcher (W H Allen, London: 1980).
Young, H, ‘One of Us’: a biography of Margaret Thatcher (Macmillan, London: 1989).
Books about Thatcherism
Different aspects of Thatcherism have attracted different analyses: it is possible to find writing on almost any aspect of the Thatcher governments or policies or actions. This list is indicative reading including general commentaries as well as specific critiques.
Andrews, K, and J Jacobs, Punishing the poor: poverty under Thatcher (Macmillan, London: 1990).
Bagwell, P S, End of the line?: the fate of public transport under Thatcher (Verso Editions and NLB, London: 1984).
Byrd, P, British Foreign Policy under Thatcher (Philip Allan, Oxford: 1988).
——, British Defence Policy: Thatcher and beyond (Philip Allan, New York, London: 1991).
Campbell, B, The Iron Ladies : why do women vote Tory? (Virago, London: 1987).
Dalyell, T, Misrule: how Mrs Thatcher has misled Parliament from the sinking of the Belgrano to the Wright affair (Hamish Hamilton, London: 1987).
Durham, M, (1991). Moral Crusades: family and morality in the Thatcher years (New York University Press, New York: 1991).
Edmonds, J, and Trent Business School, Trade unions – is there life after Thatcher? (Trent Business School, Trent Polytechnic, Nottingham: 1987).
Evans, E J, Thatcher and Thatcherism (Routledge, London: 1997).
Ewing, K D and C A Gearty, Freedom under Thatcher: civil liberties in modern Britain (Clarendon Press, Oxford: 1990).
Ferguson, J, and J Pearce, The Thatcher years: Britain and Latin America (Latin America Bureau, London: 1988).
Gaffikin, F, and M Morrissey, Northern Ireland: the Thatcher years (Zed Press, London: 1990).
George, B, S d’Albertanson, et al. (1985). British defence policy, decision making and expenditure under the Thatcher Governments 1979–1985 (and beyond) (International Security Studies Program, Washington DC: 1985).
Jackson, P M, and Royal Institute of Public Administration, Implementing government policy initiatives: the Thatcher administration 1979–83 (Royal Institute of Public Administration, London: 1985).
James, G, In the public interest: a devastating account of the Thatcher government’s involvement in the covert arms trade, by the man who turned Astra Fireworks into a £100m arms manufacturer (Warner Books, London: 1996).
Johnson, C, The economy under Mrs Thatcher 1979–1990 (Penguin, London: 1991).
Joseph, K J, and Centre for Policy Studies, Monetarism is not enough (Centre for Policy Studies, Chichester: 1976).
Kavanagh, D, and A Seldon, The Thatcher Effect (Clarendon, Oxford: 1989).
Marsh, D, J King, et al, The Trade Unions under Thatcher (Dept. of Government, University of Essex, Colchester: 1985).
Midwinter, A F and Department of Government, University of Strathclyde, Public finance in the Thatcher era : a critical assessment (Dept. of Government, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow: 1992).
Moon, J, Innovative leadership in democracy: policy change under Thatcher (Dartmouth, Aldershot: 1993).
Raban, J, God, Man & Mrs Thatcher (Chatto & Windus, London: 1989).
Riddell, P, The Thatcher Government (Basil Blackwell, Oxford: 1985).
——, The Thatcher Decade: how Britain has changed during the 1980s (Basil Blackwell, Oxford: 1989).
——, The Thatcher era and its legacy (Basil Blackwell, Oxford: 1991).
Savage, S P and L Robins, Public policy under Thatcher (Macmillan, London: 1990).
Thornton, P, and National Council for Civil Liberties, Decade of decline: civil liberties in the Thatcher years (National Council for Civil Liberties, London:1989).
Thornton, R C, The Falklands Sting: Reagan, Thatcher, and Argentina’s bomb (Brassey’s, London/Washington DC: 1998).
Urban, G R, Diplomacy and disillusion at the court of Margaret Thatcher : an insider’s view (I B Tauris, London: 1996).
Wilsher, P, D Macintyre, et al, Strike: Thatcher, Scargill and the miners (Coronet, Sevenoaks: 1985).
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