Margaret Thatcher: The Autobiography
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Margaret Thatcher. Margaret Thatcher: The Autobiography
CONTENTS
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
EDITOR’S NOTE
CHAPTER ONE. A Provincial Childhood
CHAPTER TWO. Gowns-woman
CHAPTER THREE. House Bound
CHAPTER FOUR. The Outer Circle
CHAPTER FIVE. A World of Shadows
CHAPTER SIX. Teacher’s Pest
CHAPTER SEVEN. No End of a Lesson
CHAPTER EIGHT. Seizing the Moment
CHAPTER NINE. A Bumpy Ride
CHAPTER TEN. Détente or Defeat?
CHAPTER ELEVEN. Apprenticeship for Power
CHAPTER TWELVE. Just One Chance …
CHAPTER THIRTEEN. Over the Shop
CHAPTER FOURTEEN. Changing Signals
CHAPTER FIFTEEN. Into the Whirlwind
CHAPTER SIXTEEN. Not At All Right, Jack
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN. Not for Turning
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN. The West and the Rest
CHAPTER NINETEEN. The Falklands War: Follow the Fleet
CHAPTER TWENTY. The Falklands: Victory
CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE. Generals, Commissars and Mandarins
CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO. Disarming the Left
CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE. Home and Dry
CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR. Back to Normalcy
CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE. Mr Scargill’s Insurrection
CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX. Shadows of Gunmen
CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN. Keeps Raining All the Time
CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT. Men to Do Business With
CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE. Putting the World to Rights
CHAPTER THIRTY. Jeux Sans Frontières
CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE. Hat Trick
CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO. An Improving Disposition
CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE. Not So Much a Programme, More a Way of Life
CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR. A Little Local Difficulty
CHAPTER THIRTY-FIVE. To Cut and to Please
CHAPTER THIRTY-SIX. Floaters and Fixers
CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN. The Babel Express
CHAPTER THIRTY-EIGHT. The World Turned Right Side Up
CHAPTER THIRTY-NINE. No Time to Go Wobbly
CHAPTER FORTY. Men in Lifeboats
Photo Inserts
CHRONOLOGY, 1955–1990
LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS
INDEX
COPYRIGHT
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As my father had left school at the age of thirteen, he was determined to make up for this and to see that I took advantage of every educational opportunity. We would both go to hear ‘Extension Lectures’ from the University of Nottingham about current and international affairs, which were given in Grantham regularly. After the talk would come a lively question time in which I and many others would take part: I remember, in particular, questions from a local RAF man, Wing-Commander Millington, who later captured Chelmsford for Common Wealth – a left-wing party of middle-class protest – from the Churchill coalition in a by-election towards the end of the war.
My parents took a close interest in my schooling. Homework always had to be completed – even if that meant doing it on Sunday evening. During the war, when the Camden girls were evacuated to Grantham and a shift system was used for teaching at our school, it was necessary to put in extra hours at the weekend. My father, in particular, who was an all the more avid reader for being a self-taught scholar, would discuss what we read at school. On one occasion he found that I did not know Walt Whitman’s poetry; this was quickly remedied, and Whitman is still a favourite author of mine. I was also encouraged to read the classics – the Brontës, Jane Austen and, of course, Dickens: it was the latter’s A Tale of Two Cities, with its strong political flavour, that I liked best. My father also used to subscribe to the Hibbert Journal – a philosophical journal. But this I found heavy going.
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