The Iron Lady: Margaret Thatcher, From Grocer's Daughter to Prime Minister

George P. Shultz, Turmoil and Triumph: My Years as Secretary of State (Scribners, New York, 1993)

Brendan Simms, Unfinest Hour: Britain and the Destruction of Bosnia (Allen Lane, 2001)

Brian Simon, Bending the Rules: The Baker ‘Reform’ of Education (Laurence and Wishart, 1988)

John Simpson, Strange Places, Questionable People (Macmillan, 1998)

Alan Sked and Chris Cook, Post-war Britain: A Political History, 1945 – 1992 (Penguin, 1993)

Robert Skidelsky ed., Thatcherism (Chatto & Windus, 1988)

Geoffrey Smith, Reagan and Thatcher (Bodley Head, 1990)

Ronald A. Smith, The Premier Years of Margaret Thatcher (Kevin Francis, 1991)

Jon Sopel, Tony Blair: The Moderniser

David Steel, Against Goliath: David Steel’s Story (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1989)

Tom Stacey and Roland St. Oswald, Here Come the Tories (Tom Stacey, 1970)

Philip Stephens, Politics and the Pound: The Tories, the Economy and Europe (Macmillan, 1996)

Hugh Stephenson, Mrs Thatcher’s First Year (Jill Norman, 1980)

Norman St John Stevas, The Two Cities (Faber, 1984)

Roy Strong, Diaries, 1967 – 1987 (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1997)

Mark Stuart, Douglas Hurd: The Public Servant (Mainstream, 1998)

Robert Taylor: The Trade Union Question in British Politics: Government and Unions since 1945 (Blackwell, 1993)

Norman Tebbit, Upwardly Mobile (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1988)

—, Unfinished Business (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1991)

Carol Thatcher, Diary of an Election: With Margaret Thatcher on the Campaign Trail (Sidgwick & Jackson, 1983)

—, Below the Parapet: The Biography of Denis Thatcher (HarperCollins, 1996)

—, A Swim-On Part in the Goldfish Bowclass="underline" A Memoir (Headline, 2008)

Margaret Thatcher, What’s Wrong With Politics? (Conservative Political Centre, 1968)

—, Let Our Children Grow Talclass="underline" Selected Speeches, 1975-77 (Centre for Policy Studies, 1977)

—, In Defence of Freedom: Speeches on Britain’s Relations with the World, 1976 – 1986 (Prometheus Books, 1987)

—, The Downing Street Years (HarperCollins, 1993)

—, The Path to Power (HarperCollins, 1995)

—, The Collected Speeches, edited by Robin Harris (Harper Collins, 1997)

—, Statecraft: Strategies for a Changing World (HarperCollins, 2002)

George Thomas, Mr Speaker (Century, 1986)

Andrew Thomson, Margaret Thatcher: The Woman Within (Allen Lane, 1989)

D.R.Thorpe, Alec Douglas-Home (Sinclair-Stevenson, 1996)

Kenneth R. Timmerman, The Death Lobby (Fourth Estate, 1992)

Nicholas Timmins, The Five Giants: A Biography of the Welfare State (HarperCollins, 1995)

Ian Trethowan, Split Screen (Hamish Hamilton, 1984)

Christopher Tugendhat, Making Sense of Europe (Viking, 1986)

Rodney Tyler, Campaign! The Selling of the Prime Minister (Grafton Books, 1987)

George Urban, Diplomacy and Disillusion at the Court of Margaret Thatcher: An Insider’s View (Tauris, 1996)

Cento Veljanovski, Selling the State: Privatisation in Britain (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1987)

Anthony Verrier, The Road to Zimbabwe (Jonathan Cape, 1986)

George Walden, Lucky George: Memoirs of an Anti-Politician (Allen Lane, 1999)

Peter Walker, Staying Power (Bloomsbury, 1991)

Alan Walters, Britain’s Economic Renaissance: Mrs Thatcher’s Reforms (Oxford, 1986)

—, Sterling in Danger: The Economic Consequences of Pegged Exchange Rates (Fontana/IEA, 1990)

Dennis Walters, Not Always With the Pack (Constable, 1989)

Nicholas Wapshott and George Brock, Thatcher (Macdonald, 1983)

Marina Warner, Monuments and Maidens: The Allegory of the Female Form (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1985)

Alan Watkins, Brief Lives (Hamish Hamilton, 1982)

—, A Conservative Coup: The Fall of Margaret Thatcher (Duckworth, 1991, 1992)

Charles Webster, The National Health Service: A Political History (Oxford, 1998)

Wendy Webster, Not a Man to Match Her: The Marketing of the Prime Minister (Women’s Press, 1990)

Caspar Weinberger, Fighting for Peace: Seven Critical Years at the Pentagon (Michael Joseph, 1990)

Nigel West, The Secret War for the Falklands (Warner Books, 1997)

Martin Westlake, Kinnock: The Biography (Little, Brown, 2001)

Geoffrey Wheatcroft, The Strange Death of Tory England (Allen Lane, 2005)

Phillip Whitehead, The Writing on the Walclass="underline" Britain in the Seventies (Michael Joseph/Channel 4, 1985)

William Whitelaw, The Whitelaw Memoirs (Aurum Press, 1989)

Sandy Woodward, One Hundred Days:The Memoirs of the Falklands Battle Group Commander (HarperCollins, 1992)

Peregrine Worsthorne, Tricks of Memory (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1993)

Peter Wright, Spycatcher: The Candid Autobiography of a Senior Intelligence Officer (Viking, 1987)

Woodrow Wyatt, Confessions of an Optimist (Collins, 1985)

—, The Journals of Woodrow Wyatt, 3 Vols, (Macmillan, 1998, 1999, 2000)

Daniel Yergan and Joseph Stanislaw, The Commanding Heights: The Battle Between Government and the Marketplace that is Remaking the Modern World (Touchstone, New York, 1998)

Peter York, Peter York’s Eighties (BBC, 1996)

Hugo Young, One of Us: A Biography of Margaret Thatcher (Macmillan, 1989, 1991)

—, This Blessed Plot: Britain and Europe from Churchill to Blair (Macmillan, 1998)

Hugo Young and Anne Sloman, The Thatcher Phenomenon (BBC, 1986) Lord Young, The Enterprise Years: A Businessman in the Cabinet (Headline, 1990)

Index

NB. The use of titles in this index is not consistent. Most individuals are referred to by the name or title under which they are first mentioned, but some by that under which they are best known.

A

Acheson, Dean

Acheson, Sir Donald

Adam Smith Institute

Afghanistan

African National Congress (ANC)

aid policy

Al-Yamamah deal

Allen, Richard

Allende, Salvador

Andropov,Yuri

Anglo-Irish Agreement (1985)

Annual Register

Appleyard, Leonard

Archer, Jeffrey

arms trade

Armstrong, Sir Robert