1. ‘Thatcher’s Britain’ Dr Robert Saunders Queen Mary University of London

2. Thatcher’s Britain: 1975-1990

6. ‘I came into politics because of the conflict between good and evil’

7. Thatcher and Reagan The Cold War: East v West

10. THE NORTHERN IRELAND ‘TROUBLES’: 1968-1998

11. THE BRIGHTON BOMBING, 12 October 1984

12. The Three Day Week, 1974

13. ‘The Winter of Discontent, 1978-79’

14. What’s wrong with Britain? 1. The state was too big 2. Trade Unions were too powerful 3. Something had gone wrong with the national character SOCIALISM!

15. What to do next? 1. Tax Cuts: Top rate of income tax halved (83p to 40p); basic rate down from 33p to 35p 2. Privatisation: British Gas, British Coal, British Telecom etc 3. Cuts in public spending – especially subsidies to industry 4. Reform of Trade Union law: 7 new Trade Union Acts

16. Thatcher on Council Housing ‘council estates bring together people who are out of work but enjoy security of tenure at subsidized rents. They not only have every incentive to stay where they are: they mutually reinforce each other’s passivity and undermine each other’s initiative. Thus a culture grows up in which the unemployed are content to remain living mainly on the state with little will to move and find work’.

17. The 1981 Riots

19. The Miners’ Strike, 1984-85 ‘The Battle of Orgreave’, June 1984

20. Leadership Election, 1990 Michael HeseltineTarzan, Lord of the Jungle

21. 22 November 1990: Margaret Thatcher announces her resignation

23. Poll Tax Riots 1989-1990

24. John Major (‘The Grey Man’)