Thatcherism in the 21st Century: The Social and Cultural Legacy

ISBN-13: 9783030417949 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 296 str.

Antony Mullen; Stephen Farrall; David Jeffery

Spis treści

1. Introduction

Antony Mullen, David Jeffery, Stephen Farrall

Part I. Ideologies

2. The Ideological Composition of the Parliamentary Conservative Party from Thatcher to May

Timothy Heppell

3. Intellectual Reactions to Thatcherism: Conceptions of Citizenship and Civil Society from 1990-2010

Edmund Neill

4. Data-Driven Government: The Triumph of Thatcherism or the Revenge of Society?

Kieron O’Hara

Part II. Regions

5. ‘Rolling Back the Frontiers of the State, Only to See Them Re-imposed in Docklands?’: Margaret Thatcher, Michael Heseltine and the Contested Parenthood of Canary Wharf

Jack Brown

6. ‘The Jezebel Who Sought to Destroy Israel in a Day’: Margaret Thatcher’s Impact on the Northern Ireland Peace Process, 1984-1990

Fiona McKelvey

7. “The Iron Lady? She devastated the Country”: Former Scottish Steelworkers Narratives of Unions, Community and Thatcherism

James Ferns

8. Thatcherism and Wales: impacts and legacies

Sam Blaxland

Part III. Attitudes

9. The Political Socialisation of Thatcher’s Children: Identifying the Long Reach of Thatcherite Social and Economic Values and Perceptions of Crime

Emily Gray, Maria Grasso, Stephen Farrall

10. Margaret Thatcher and the Rhetorical Road to Brexit

Andrew S. Crines

11. Thatcher’s Legacy and Social Security

Ruth Davidson

Part IV. Interpretations

12. Thatcher’s Young Men and the End of the Party: Parody, Predictions and Problems in Literary Representations of Thatcherism

Dominic Dean

13. The Politics of The Iron Lady 

Antony Mullen

14.'Death of a Member', 10 April 2013

Martin Farr

O autorze

Antony Mullen is the director of the Thatcher Network, UK.

Stephen Farrall is a research professor at the University of Derby, UK.

David Jeffery is a lecturer at the University of Liverpool, UK.

Blurb

This collection examines the social and cultural legacy of Thatcherism in the 21st century. Drawing upon perspectives from a range of disciplines, it considers how Thatcherism manifests itself today and how we can assess its long-term impact. The book is divided into four sections, which offer different ways of conceptualising and addressing questions of legacy: the ideological impact of Thatcherism on the Conservative Party and on the country; the long-term impact of Thatcherism across different parts of the UK; how Thatcherism has altered social attitudes to everything from welfare spending to Europe; and how popular historical accounts of Thatcherism have become embedded in different parts of contemporary British culture. The essays in this volume draw upon newly available archival materials, oral histories, social attitudes surveys and parliamentary debates to provide a well-rounded perspective on Thatcherism today.

Antony Mullen is the director of the Thatcher Network, UK.

Stephen Farrall is a research professor at the University of Derby, UK.

David Jeffery is a lecturer at the University of Liverpool, UK.