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Margaret Hilda Roberts Thatcher Thatcher, Baroness
Margaret Hilda Roberts Thatcher Thatcher, Baroness 1925-, British political leader. Great Britain's first woman prime minister, Thatcher served longer than any other British prime minister in the 20th cent. In office she initiated what became known as the "Thatcher Revolution," a series of soci... Read more
Michael Ray Dibdin Heseltine
Michael Ray Dibdin Heseltine , 1933-, British politician. After studying law at Oxford, he built a successful career in publishing before entering the House of Commons as a Conservative in 1966. He held junior posts in the Heath government (1970-74). In Margaret Thatcher 's government, he was secre... Read more
Douglas Hurd
Douglas Hurd 1930-, British politician. Educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge, he worked in the diplomatic service (1952-66) and later served as Prime Minister Edward Heath 's political secretary (1970-74). He entered the House of Commons in 1974 and held a succession of junior posts in ... Read more
Robert Alexander Kennedy Runcie
Robert Alexander Kennedy Runcie , 1921-2000, archbishop of Canterbury (1980-91). Bishop of St. Albans from 1970 to 1980, he was enthroned as the 102d archbishop of Canterbury in 1980, succeeding Donald Coggan. Runcie supported the ordination of women and other liberal Anglican positions and was ofte... Read more
John Major
John Major 1943-, British statesman, b. John Major Ball. Raised in a working-class area of London, he was elected to Lambeth borough council (1968-71) and entered Parliament as a Conservative in 1979. He became Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher 's chief secretary to the Treasury in 1987, foreign se... Read more
Leonard James Callaghan Callaghan of Cardiff, Baron
Leonard James Callaghan Callaghan of Cardiff, Baron 1912-2005, British statesman. He was first elected to Parliament as a Labour member in 1945. As chancellor of the exchequer (1964-67), he introduced extremely controversial taxation policies, including employment taxes; he resigned when he was for... Read more
Peter Carington Carrington, 6th Baron
Peter Carington Carrington, 6th Baron 1919-, British politician. Educated at Eton and Sandhurst, he succeeded to the peerage in 1938. After serving in World War II, he took his seat in the House of Lords, where he held ministerial positions under the Conservative governments of Winston Churchill, A... Read more
Friedrich August von Hayek
Friedrich August von Hayek , 1899-1992, British economist, b. Vienna. He was raised and educated in Austria and taught at the London School of Economics in the 1930s, where he gained attention for his criticism of Keynes . He expressed his commitment to free markets and his aversion to government i... Read more
Michael Howard
Michael Howard 1941-, British politician, leader of the Conservative party (2003-5), b. Llanelli, Wales, as Michael Hecht. The son of immigrants (his father changed the family name after becoming a British subject in 1947), he was educated at Cambridge and became a successful barrister. In 1983 he ... Read more
Ken Livingstone
Ken Livingstone 1945-, British politician. Elected to the Greater London Council (GLC) in 1973 as a Labour member, he became GLC leader in 1981. His use of the local office to promote leftist policies earned him the nickname "Red Ken" and was a major factor in Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher ... Read more

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Sir Geoffrey Howe
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...became foreign secretary. Called the "patient Fabian of Thatcherism" by one writer, Howe was less outspoken than the prime...as chancellor, a bold document which set the course for Thatcherism. This course, which in broad outline resembled that which...
Thatcher, Margaret
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences ...in having her name associated with a set of ideas, policies, and style of governance known as Thatcherism . Yet the extent to which Thatcherism as an ideology guided the policies of Thatcher ’ s governments in office has been disputed...
Conservative Party (Britain)
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences ...accelerating economic decline coupled with mounting social and political turmoil enabled Thatcher to lead her party to power. Thatcherism subsequently came to describe a mix of policies designed to promote free-market economics and lessen public reliance on...
Neoconservatism
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences ...constitute the second sense of neo . Neoconservative thought, with its emphasis on social morality, is thus distinguished from Thatcherism as well as the broader trend in neoliberalism to extend market relations into all aspects of political and social life...
National Theatre
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature ...has achieved particular success with new plays including the trilogy by D. Hare , charting the decline of British institutions under Thatcherism, The Madness of George III by Alan Bennett , Arcadia by Stoppard, and numerous others.
Thatcher, Margaret Hilda, Baroness
Book article from: World Encyclopedia ...first woman Prime Minister. Her government embarked on a radical free-market programme that became known as ‘Thatcherism’. Her monetarist policies, especially cuts in public spending, provoked criticism and contributed to a recession...
Major, John
Book article from: World Encyclopedia ...exchequer. Following Mrs Thatcher's resignation, Major emerged as her compromise successor. He moderated the excesses of Thatcherism; such as scrapping the unpopular poll tax . Major lent full military support to the US in the Gulf War (1991) and led...
Heath, Sir Edward
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History ...selectivity in the social services, and taking Britain into Europe. Such objectives inevitably encourage comparisons with the Thatcherism of later years. But for Heath the new policies represented a practical approach to the modernization of British society...
Francis Pym
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...from her government. Pym was then free to speak his mind as an independent, and he began to elaborate on his criticisms of Thatcherism in 1984. He had always felt uneasy about the prime minister's monetarist economic policies which led to unemployment and...

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Thatcherism
Book article from: A Dictionary of Contemporary World History Thatcherism A term describing the ideology of Margaret Thatcher , which formed the...looking to its pre-1945 status as a world power. The influence of Thatcherism could be seen in the government of the Labour Party , which under Tony...
Distant Voices, Still Lives
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...Cannes Film Festival, 1988. Publications Books: Friedman, Lester, editor, Fires Were Started: British Cinema and Thatcherism, Minneapolis, 1993. Winston, Wheeler, editor, Re-viewing British Cinema, 1900–1902: Essays and Interviews...
Macmillan, (Maurice) Harold, 1st Earl of Stockton
Book article from: A Dictionary of Contemporary World History ...subsequently devoted much of his time to his duties as Chancellor of Oxford University, to which office he had been elected in 1960. From 1984 he was a prominent member of the House of Lords, and an outspoken critic of Thatcherism .
monetarism
Book article from: A Dictionary of Contemporary World History ...governments have accepted the control of inflation as a central economic objective, though they have been reluctant to carry out the more radical implications of monetarism such as the dismantling of the welfare state . Keynesianism ; Thatcherism
Neoliberalism
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas ...Ronald Reagan (yielding the label "Reaganomics") and former prime minister of the United Kingdom Margaret Thatcher ("Thatcherism"); particular intellectual trends, such as supply-side economics and monetarism, associated with academics such as...
Thatcher, Margaret
Book article from: A Dictionary of British History ...political patriotism, low taxes, private ownership, balanced budgets, and individual initiative which later became known as Thatcherism. However, if the goal was financial stability, permanently low inflation, reduced government spending, and lower taxes...
populism
Book article from: A Dictionary of Sociology ...state itself, the policies of British governments during the 1980s, and the ideology which informed them (so-called Thatcherism), were sometimes described by those on the political left as ‘authoritarian populism’. Populism...
Foot, Michael
Book article from: A Dictionary of Contemporary World History ...goverment's lack of an overall majority. In 1980, he became Labour leader, when the party responded disastrously to Thatcherism by steering to the left, rather than to the centre. He supported unilateral disarmament and the CND , which convinced many...
Beveridge Report
Book article from: A Dictionary of Contemporary World History ...society after the war, and prepared the ground for Attlee's surprise victory against Churchill in 1945. Its recommendations formed the foundation of British social and economic policy from 1945 until the advent of Thatcherism in 1979.
Major, John
Book article from: A Dictionary of Contemporary World History ...poll tax and signed the Maastricht Treaty . To general surprise, he was re-elected in 1992. In many respects, he took Thatcherism to areas where even she was reluctant, such as the privatization of the railways and the attempted privatization of the...

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The Anatomy of Thatcherism.
Magazine article from: Public Interest; 3/22/1993; ; 700+ words ; ...particularly true of most studies of Thatcherism, with Peter Riddell's data-laden...bundle of attributes" that make up Thatcherism. The dozens of previous works devoted to explaining Thatcherism contain "no agreement whatever about...
Will Europeanism be Blair's answer to Thatcherism?
Magazine article from: The Spectator; 7/5/2003; ; 700+ words ; ...ism'. Lady Thatcher has Thatcherites and Thatcherism. Her followers give dinners in her honour...Blairites are not the same kind of thing as Thatcherism and Thatcherites. Thatcherism, as commonly understood, has roots and antecedents...
Thatcherism lives. (significance of Conservative Party victory in British elections) (Editorial)
Magazine article from: National Review; 5/11/1992; 700+ words ; So Thatcherism has not, after all, been consigned...that the fundamental changes wrought by Thatcherism had an impact on voters that even a...The voters declined the invitation. Thatcherism also meant-and means-a friendly...
WHAT WAS THATCHERISM?(Review)
Magazine article from: Contemporary Review; 9/1/2000; ; 700+ words ; Thatcherism and British Politics, 1975-1999. Brendan Evans. Sutton Publishing...Again and again it attempts to answer the questions: what was Thatcherism? and was Thatcherism Conservatism or not? There are a few underlying conceptions...
Word of the week: Thatcherism
Newspaper article from: The Scotsman; 3/8/2003; ; 622 words ; Thatcherism: noun. The system of political thought...goddess. However, as neologisms go, Thatcherism has stayed the course remarkably well...actually Sanskrit. However, I doubt if Thatcherism's minor cousin, Blairism, will last...
Thatcherism RIP?(United Kingdom Conservative Party tones down its agenda)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: The Economist (US); 4/24/1999; 700+ words ; ...waver on policy expressed the spirit of Thatcherism-even though her steadfastness was...devoted acolytes, appeared to say that Thatcherism must no longer be the party's guiding...Lilley's New Toryism-not so much Thatcherism denied as Thatcherism repackaged? It...
Thatcherism - Stateside
Newspaper article from: Scotland on Sunday; 12/19/2004; ; 700+ words ; ...reform. And they have a name for it: Thatcherism. Ever since being returned with a 3...over her speeches and has distilled Thatcherism in a new label: 'ownership society...a 1993 British book, The Anatomy of Thatcherism. Written by Shirley Letwin - the late...
Thatcherism lingers; Your Say.
Newspaper article from: Evening Gazette (Middlesbrough, England); 5/21/2009; 491 words ; ...An Entire Decade, 11.05.09), Thatcherism did not end with the resignation of...as Prime Minister in November 1990. Thatcherism continues to be a considerable force...government is very much influenced by Thatcherism. The hold of Margaret Thatcher on the...
Thatcherism.
Magazine article from: The Economist (US); 12/10/1988; 700+ words ; THATCHERISM. Edited by Robert Skidelsky. Chatto...University symposium. Only two clearly liked Thatcherism (LSE's rather hectoring Ken Minogue...duchesses. He thinks this must be because Thatcherism is a sort of British Gaullism-"born...
OPINION: Thatcherism is alive and well and working in the White House.
Newspaper article from: Sunday Business (London); 12/19/2004; 700+ words ; ...reform. And they have a name for it: Thatcherism. Since being returned with a 3.5...over her speeches and has distilled Thatcherism in a new label: "ownership society...a 1993 British book, The Anatomy of Thatcherism. Written by Shirley Letwin -- the...