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Andy McSmith, Kenneth Clarke: A Political Biography (Verso, 1994)

Brenda Maddox, Maggie: The First Lady (Hoffer & Stoughton, 2003)

Lady Olga Maitland, MargaretThatcher: The First Ten Years (Sidgwick & Jackson, 1989)

John Major, The Autobiography (HarperCollins, 1999)

Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom (Little, Brown, 1994)

Jean Mann, Woman in Parliament (Odhams, 1962)

David Marquand, The Unprincipled Society: New Demands and Old Politics (Jonathan Cape, 1987)

—, Britain Since 1918: The Strange Career of British Democracy (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2008)

Andrew Marr, Ruling Britannia (Michael Joseph, 1995)

Arthur Marwick, British Society since 1945 (Penguin, 1990)

Reginald Maudling, Memoirs (Sidgwick & Jackson, 1978)

Anthony Meyer, Stand up and be Counted (Heinemann, 1990)

Keith Middlemas, Power, Competition and the State, Vol.3, The End of the Post-War Era: Britains since 1974 (Macmillan, 1991)

Ronald Millar, A View from the Wings (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1993)

Alasdair Milne, D-G: The Memoirs of a British Broadcaster (Hodder & Stoughton, 1988)

Kenneth Minogue and Michael Biddiss eds., Thatcherism: Personality and Politics (Macmillan, 1987)

Ernle Money, Margaret Thatcher, First Lady of the House (Leslie Frewin, 1975)

Charles Moore and Simon Heffer, A Tory Seer: The Selected Journalism of T.E. Utley (Hamish Hamilton, 1989)

Kenneth O. Morgan, The People’s Peace: British History, 1945-1989 (Oxford, 1990)

—, Callaghan: A Life (Oxford, 1997)

Oliver Morrissey, Brian Smith and Edward Horesh, British Aid and International Trade: Aid Policy Making, 1979 – 89 (Oxford, 1992)

Patricia Murray, Margaret Thatcher (W.H. Allen, 1980)

Andrew Neil, Full Disclosure (Macmillan, 1986)

H.G. Nicholas, The British General Election of 1950 (Macmillan, 1950)

Philip Norton, Conservative Dissidents: Dissent within the Parliamentary Conservative Party, 1970 – 74 (Temple Smith, 1978)

—, Dissension in the House of Commons, 1974 – 1979 (Oxford, 1980)

John Nott, Here Today and Gone Tomorrow (Politico’s, 2002)

Robin Oakley, Inside Track (Bantam, 2001)

Chris Ogden, Maggie (Simon & Schuster, New York, 1990)

Amy C. Old, The History of Kesteven and Grantham Girls’ School, 1910 – 1987 (Privately printed)

Arwel Ellis Owen, The Anglo-Irish Agreement: The First Three Years (University of Wales, Cardiff, 1994)

David Owen, Face the Future (Jonathan Cape, 1981)

—, Time to Declare (Michael Joseph, 1991)

Cecil Parkinson, Right at the Centre (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1992)

Matthew Parris, Chance Witness: An Outsider’s Life in Politics (Viking, 2002)

Chris Patten, East and West (Macmillan, 1998)

Jeremy Paxman, Friends in High Places: Who Runs Britain? (Michael Joseph, 1990)

Edward Pearce, Election Rides (Faber, 1992)

—, Denis Healey: A Life in our Times (Little, Brown, 2002)

John Peyton, Without Benefit of Laundry (Bloomsbury, 1997)

Melanie Phillips, The Divided House (Sidgwick & Jackson, 1980)

Ben Pimlott, Harold Wilson (HarperCollins, 1992)

—, The Queen (HarperCollins, 1996)

Chapman Pincher, Their Trade is Treachery (Sidgwick & Jackson, 1981)

Clive Ponting, Whitehalclass="underline" Tragedy and Farce (Hamish Hamilton, 1986)

James Prior, A Balance of Power (Hamish Hamilton, 1986)

Peter Pugh and Carl Flint, Thatcher for Beginners (Icon Books, 1997)

Stanislao Pugliese, ed., The Political Legacy of Margaret Thatcher (Politico’s, 2003)

Francis Pym, The Politics of Consent (Hamish Hamilton, 1984)

Jonathan Raban, God, Man and Mrs Thatcher (Chatto & Windus, 1989)

Timothy Raison, Tories and the Welfare State: A History of Conservative Social Policy since the Second World War (Macmillan, 1990)

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—, The Winds of Change: Macmillan to Heath, 1957-1975 (Longman, 1996)

—, An Appetite for Power: A History of the Conservative Party since 1830 (HarperCollins, 1998)

John Ranelagh, Thatcher’s People: An Insider’s Account of the Politics, the Power and the Personalities (HarperCollins, 1991)

Peter Rawlinson, A Price Too High (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1989)

Ronald Reagan, An American Life (Arrow, 1991)

John Rentoul, The Rich get Richer: The Growth of Inequality in Britain in the 1890s (Unwin, 1987)

Robin Renwick, Fighting with Allies: America and Britain in Peace and War (Macmillan, 1996)

—, Unconventional Diplomacy in Southern Africa (Macmillan, 1997)

David Reynolds, Britannia Overruled: British Policy and World Power in the Twentieth Century (Longman, 1991)

Peter Riddell, The Thatcher Decade (Blackwell, 1989)

Nicholas Ridley, ‘My Style of Government’: The Thatcher Years (Hutchinson, 1991)

Kenneth Rose, Elusive Rothschild: The Life of Victor, Third Baron (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2003)

Andrew Roth, Heath and the Heathmen (Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1972)

Paul Routledge, Scargilclass="underline" The Unauthorised Biography (HarperCollins, 1993)

Anthony Sampson, The Changing Anatomy of Britain (Hodder & Stoughton, 1982)

—, The Essential Anatomy of Britain: Democracy in Crisis (Hodder & Stoughton, 1992)

—, Nelson Mandela (HarperCollins, 1999)

John Sergeant, Maggie:Her Fatal Legacy (Macmillan, 2005)

Raymond Seitz, Over Here (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1998)

Anthony Seldon, Major: A Political Life (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1997)

Anthony Seldon and Stuart Ball, The Conservative Century: The Conservative Party since 1900 (Oxford, 1994)

William Shawcross, Murdoch (Chatto & Windus, 1992)

Robert Shepherd, The Power Brokers:TheTory Party and its Leaders (Hutchinson, 1991)

—, Enoch Powell (Hutchinson, 1996)

Norman Shrapnel, The Performers: Politics as Theatre (Constable 1978)

—, The Seventies (Constable, 1980)