Margaret Thatcher’s third and final election victory dominates the 50,000 pages of her personal papers for the year 1987 – opening to the public from today at Churchill College, Cambridge.
Scott Anthony, Affiliated Research Scholar in the Faculty of History, discusses Jeremy Corbyn's Labour leadership campaign and the history of political 'spin'.
Papers opened to the public today reveal how the Brighton bombing stopped Margaret Thatcher from widening her infamous ‘enemy within’ rhetoric to include not only the striking miners but also the wider Labour movement and Party.
Today (17 November) Douglas Alexander MP will be in Cambridge to launch a book that charts the first 100 years of the city’s Labour Party. Its authors, Ashley Walsh and Richard Johnson, are Cambridge graduates of 2012, born in the Thatcher era but passionate proponents of the Labour cause.
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