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Margaret Thatcher: Iron LadyBy Siân Ellis | British Heritage | 4 comments | Print This Post | Email This Post Her legacy, like her life, is one of paradox. A force for change, she saved her country from the economic mire and made it governable again, but threw the Conservative Party into turmoil. She altered national attitudes: After monetarism there has been no return to Keynesian economics, and Britain is no longer the sick country of Europe. She consolidated the Atlantic Alliance and helped create the dynamics of the post–Cold War world, but left the Tory Party—and the country—deeply divided on Europe and integration into its union. However these legacies play out, Margaret Thatcher will be seen as an icon of the 20th century and one of Britain’s outstanding peacetime prime ministers. Subscribe Today
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4 Comments to “Margaret Thatcher: Iron Lady”
thank you who ever wrote this you saved me from the painful C+ i was sure to get on the old paper but now i enjoy my A
By abigail gentry on Feb 20, 2009 at 9:43 am
i can’t find email for Sian ellis on British Heritage page. As an author of books on Wales, I have a few questions for her. May i have an email contact. hwyl , Peter
By peter willliams on Feb 28, 2009 at 1:43 pm
Margret Thtcher, the woman who ruined British industry.She killed the coal industry because of her revenge against the miners who she practically starved into submission.And almost single handedly forced the steel industry to her wishes by ultimately selling out.Her popularity was largely based on the British armies success in the Falklands until people gradually realised what a fraud she really was.
By ray duggan on Apr 20, 2009 at 4:25 am
I am a former mining industry editor. The argument on the miners’ strike can go on for ever. The strikers were led by Arthur Scargill who did bother with such niceties as a ballot of his members. He started the strike just after winter 1984/5 when people would not need vast reserves of coal for heating for another nine months. Lions led by donkeys comes to mind. The British steel industry became successful until its forced merger with a Dutch steel company. No-one would ever want to go back to the pre- Margaret Thatcher days – ask Tony Blair, the Labour leader who turned out to be Mrs Thatcher’s third child.
By Michael Schwartz on Jul 24, 2009 at 7:02 pm