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Margaret Thatcher

Portrait of Margaret Thatcher

The Iron Lady · Prime Minister · Prime Minister of Britain · 1925–2013

Britain's first female Prime Minister — grocer's daughter, chemist, barrister, conviction politician.

Why Thatcher is on Incandio

Incandio is a free revision platform for the Pearson Edexcel International GCSE. Its historical figures are the people a student learns from, questions and — where a specification topic is theirs — defends an idea against. Margaret Thatcher can be questioned here in a dramatised, historically grounded portrayal, and the five-chapter life below is written to be read alongside the course.

Explore the life of Thatcher — five chapters

  1. Above the Shop in Grantham — A Methodist upbringing and a chemistry degree
  2. Milk Snatcher to Party Leader — An unexpected challenge in 1975
  3. The Medicine and the Cost — Inflation, unemployment and the miners' strike
  4. The Falklands, the Cold War and South Africa — Abroad, where her judgement ran both ways
  5. The Poll Tax and the Fall — Removed by her own party

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