During the eleven years of Margaret Thatcher's premiership, education in England was transformed by her determination to reorganise the state sector along public school lines and, in doing so, to remove local councils from the key role they had always played in the national system.

Throughout this time, Donald Naismith was the Director of Education for three of them where he frequently came, in Lord Denning's words, 'very near the line' in pursuing policies central to Mrs Thatcher's revolution but opposed by both the 'right' as well as the 'left' wings of the education...

During the eleven years of Margaret Thatcher's premiership, education in England was transformed by her determination to reorganise the state sector along public school lines and, in doing so, to remove local councils from the key role they had always played in the national system.

Throughout this time, Donald Naismith was the Director of Education for three of them where he frequently came, in Lord Denning's words, 'very near the line' in pursuing policies central to Mrs Thatcher's revolution but opposed by both the 'right' as well as the 'left' wings of the education...