Margaret Thatcher

The Downing Street Years joins principle, personality and Cabinet disagreement in Thatcher's account of her premiership. The Falklands chapters offer a particularly useful comparison: her foundation publishes the handwritten recollection she produced in 1983, before the later public memoir, alongside associated papers. Read the two accounts together to examine how memory becomes a published political narrative. Nigel Lawson's The View from No. 11 supplies a colleague's perspective on other major disputes within her government.