Fellows of Somerville College, Oxford - Honorary Fellows of Somerville College, Oxford, Margaret Thatcher, Angela Vincent, Kiri Te Kanawa (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 36. Chapters: Honorary Fellows of Somerville College, Oxford, Margaret Thatcher, Angela Vincent, Kiri Te Kanawa, G. E. M. Anscombe, Shirley Williams, A. S. Byatt, Phyllis Starkey, Philippa Foot, Daphne Osborne, Margaret Jay, Baroness Jay of Paddington, Shriti Vadera, Baroness Vadera, Daphne Park, Baroness Park of Monmouth, Onora O'Neill, Baroness O'Neill of Bengarve, Emma Kirkby, Ann Oakley, Nancy Rothwell, Kathleen Ollerenshaw, Enid Starkie, Averil Cameron, Julia Higgins, Kay Davies, Margery Fry, Grace Eleanor Hadow, Mildred Pope, Jennifer Welsh, Karin Erdmann, Rosalind Marsden, Tamsyn Imison, Steven H. Simon, Aditi Lahiri, Louise Johnson, Charles Spence, Barbara Everett. Excerpt: Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher, (nee Roberts; born 13 October 1925) is a former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom who served from 1979 to 1990. Born in Grantham, Lincolnshire, Thatcher studied chemistry at Somerville College, Oxford before qualifying as a barrister. In the 1959 general election she became MP for Finchley. Edward Heath appointed Thatcher Secretary of State for Education and Science in his 1970 government. In 1975 she was elected Leader of the Conservative Party, the first woman to head a major UK political party, and in 1979 she became the UK's first female Prime Minister. After entering Thatcher was determined to reverse what she perceived as a precipitous national decline. Her political philosophy and economic policies emphasised deregulation, particularly of the financial sector, flexible labour markets, the sale or closure of state-owned companies, and the withdrawal of subsidies to others. Thatcher's popularity waned amid recession and high unemployment, until economic recovery and the 1982 Falklands War brought a resurgence of support resulting in her re-election in 1983. Thatcher survived an assassination attempt i...