[PDF file]: Historical Notes Scott Newton Nigel Lawson and the Thatcher U-turn Nigel Lawson, who died earlier this year, received a good press from a series of laudatory tributes and obituaries, which naturally spent a lot of time discussing his period as Margaret Thatcher’s Chancellor of the Exchequer between 1983 and 1989. The Thatcher government’s economic […]
[PDF file]: […] British goods out of export markets.’ (p. 247) (emphases added) Exchange rate policies and high interest rates . . . is there a theme here? Prime Minister Thatcher, Financial Secretary to the Treasury Nigel Lawson and Chancellor Geoffrey Howe were in charge of the economy during the first years of Thatcherism. Mostly it was […]
[PDF file]: […] early and mid 1980s, encouraged a trend to self-employment and a rise in the number of small businesses. Life became unpredictable and sometimes precarious for many; but Thatcher offered compensation to the old working class in the form of popular capitalism. This was based on possession of assets. These generally took two forms: either […]
[PDF file]: […] funding by the Road Haulage Association, then distantly threatened with nationalisation, is discussed. Best account is Hinton’s. Dorothy Crisp is the historical figure who most resembles Margaret Thatcher. 47 é é é 12 an an additional anticipated income of £260,000.’48 The pre-war tradition, discussed below, of newspapers reprinting anti-left briefings from Conservative Party groups […]
[PDF file]: The liberal apocalypse: or understanding the 1970s and 80s1 Robin Ramsay We’ve just had another burst of intellectual activity around the Thatcher years. We’ve seen recently: Richard Cockett’s Thinking the Unthinkable: Think-tanks and the Economic Counter-Revolution 1931-83 (Harper Collins, London, 1994); ‘Mrs Thatcher and the Intellectuals’, by Brian Harrison, in 20th Century British History, […]
The liberal apocalypse: or understanding the 1970s and 80s1 Robin Ramsay We’ve just had another burst of intellectual activity around the Thatcher years. We’ve seen recently: Richard Cockett’s Thinking the Unthinkable: Think-tanks and the Economic Counter-Revolution 1931-83 (Harper Collins, London, 1994); ‘Mrs Thatcher and the Intellectuals’, by Brian Harrison, in 20th Century British History, […]
The liberal apocalypse: or understanding the 1970s and 80s1 Robin Ramsay We’ve just had another burst of intellectual activity around the Thatcher years. We’ve seen recently: Richard Cockett’s Thinking the Unthinkable: Think-tanks and the Economic Counter-Revolution 1931-83 (Harper Collins, London, 1994); ‘Mrs Thatcher and the Intellectuals’, by Brian Harrison, in 20th Century British History, […]
[PDF file]: […] celebrate Margaret Thatcher’s greatness and Heath is the ideal foil for this: the man the miners defeated contrasted with the woman who defeated the miners. It was Thatcher, after all, who began the neo-liberal reshaping of Britain. This was a wholly good thing because. as Bower argues, privatisation was to show that ‘public-owned industries […]
[PDF file]: […] in Sri Lanka but also on those who were living in exile in the United Kingdom. Regarding the Tamil Coordinating Committee operating from London at the time, Thatcher was to tell the Foreign Minister of Sri Lanka, ‘We keep a close eye on and shall continue to do so.’3 0 The Sri Lankan government […]
[PDF file]: […] began to rise sharply, the Treasury tried to persuade the Labour government to scrap exchange controls. This Labour refused to do; but they were abolished by the Thatcher government in 1980. However, despite a rush of capital out of the UK, the value of the pound continued to rise, making British exports uncompetitive and […]
