Oil portrait of Margaret Thatcher among 100 personal items appearing at auction on Friday Margaret Thatcher commissioned an oil painting to mark her wedding to her husband Denis, it has emerged.

Margaret Thatcher’s private desk, at which she wrote many of her speeches, is to be sold at auction with a guide price of up ...

We tend to see the 1980s as "a combustible era of economic growth and social unrest", said Mark Hudson in The Independent. On ...

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The exhibit will depict some of the most tumultuous events of the decade, including powerful images of the miners’ strikes by ...

During that strike, Margaret Thatcher’s government used the state to violently crush the miners and their communities.” Mr ...

The prime minister said he "totally disagrees" with John McTernan, who said he was in favour of doing to farmers "what Margaret Thatcher did to the miners". Politics Live: Eye-watering' climate ...

From the start of her time as prime minister Margaret Thatcher divided opinion. When she came to power in 1979 she wanted to make big changes to how the country was run - and she transformed Britain.

Margaret Thatcher, the UK's first woman prime minister, led the country between 1979 and 1990 The extent to which leading Conservatives under-estimated Margaret Thatcher, both as a politician and ...