Making Thatcher’s Britain comprises a perceptive collection of essays, primarily by a younger generation of historians and political scientists. Many of them make use of the massive cache of original material available on the Margaret Thatcher Foundation website and in the Thatcher papers at the Churchill Archives Centre, Cambridge. The book provides what is probably the best available introduction to the historiographical problems of the Thatcher era, and it can be read both with profit and with pleasure. But it also casts considerable light on the politics of today.
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