Site Guide
The core of the site consists of several thousand speeches and other statements by Margaret Thatcher.
This site also includes:
- many official British documents, such as the report of the Franks Commission on the Falklands War.
- many Conservative Party publications, including manifestos, policy documents, and campaign briefings.
- a full commentary and linked to that, third-party commentary, ranging from academic policy analysis to character sketches by friends and colleagues.
This section of the site contains a brief biography of Margaret Thatcher, followed by a short reading list & chronology.
How do I search this site?
All the documents on the site have been indexed by hand under subject headings, so searches by subject reliably find all (and only) relevant material.
All the documents on the site are graded by importance or rank (key, major, minor, trivial), so that you can focus on key documents or eliminate minor items.
You can search easily by date or period.