When do you think this cartoon was published? What event(s) is this cartoon referring to?

1. The Legacy of ThatcherAim: to assess whether there was a ‘Thatcher Revolution’ and interpretations of Thatcher over time • When do you think this cartoon was published? • What event(s) is this cartoon referring to? • What interpretation does it have of Thatcher?

2. On the website to help your revision will be daily revision questions (www.historywcsch.wordpress.org) In 1985 at the annual Labour party conference Neil Kinnock denounced the militant extreme councillors as destroying the Labour party, especially unilateralism. On a post-it... Why did Labour lose every election from 1979 to 1987 despite Thatcher’s unpopularity?

3. The Legacy of ThatcherAim: to assess whether there was a ‘Thatcher Revolution’ and interpretations of Thatcher over time The Thatcher Revolution Historians, economists, scientists, journalists and many more all have different interpretations of what this was. • Lets assume Revolution is …. • noun • 1a forcible overthrow of a government or social order, in favour of a new system:the country has had a socialist revolution • (often the Revolution) (in Marxism) the class struggle which is expected to lead to political change and the triumph of communism:when I grew up it was the Marxism that was very strong, it was like the revolution was coming next week • a dramatic and wide-reaching change in conditions, attitudes, or operation:marketing underwent a revolution • What would your own definition be of Thatcher’s Revolution? • Which one do you agree the most with on your sheet? • Would you change your definition to include some which are on the sheet? • Main points for her having a revolution • Abandoned Consensus politics • Replaced Keynesianism with freemarket • Reduced the power of the state • Limited power of trade unions • Made Local Government answer more directly to people’s needs • Restored the notion of social accountability – effort should be rewarded and lack of effort penalised • ‘Mrs Thatcher inspired the thinking of a generation’

4. The Legacy of ThatcherAim: to assess whether there was a ‘Thatcher Revolution’ and interpretations of Thatcher over time • Evidence for it occurring – highlight in one colour • Evidence for it not occurring – highlight in another colour • Which pieces of evidence are particularly relevant to your definition? • Do you believe the ‘Thatcher Revolution’ happened?

5. The Legacy of ThatcherAim: to assess whether there was a ‘Thatcher Revolution’ and interpretations of Thatcher over time Look at your tables of key ideas from the beginning of the unit on Thatcher. Write next to it evidence that these aims were carried through or evidence which showed they weren’t. • Can you add any more aims and evidence showing they were carried out or not? • Do you believe the ‘Thatcher Revolution’ happened?

6. The Legacy of ThatcherAim: to assess whether there was a ‘Thatcher Revolution’ and interpretations of Thatcher over time Rhodes Boyson – British Conservative MP A very remarkable woman. It was the happy coincidence of the right person, in the right place, at the right time.Courage to see an opportunity and take it.Decisiveness in times of crisis.Clear beliefs held with an evangelical zeal. During the 1979 election, she ridiculed the Socialist Prime Minister Callaghan saying, "The Old Testament prophets did not say `Brothers, I want a consensus.' They said, `This is my faith; this is what I passionately believe; if you believe it too, then come with me.'" Her crusading qualities were embedded in her Methodist background, which gave a moral purpose to all she did.Physical strength. She needed little sleep and would certainly have been killed by the IRA bomb in Brighton if she had not been working on her conference speech at 2:00 a.m.Intellectual capacity. She entered Oxford at 17 reading chemistry.She was a slight, pretty, feminine woman in a man's world. She turned what could have been a disadvantage into a useful weapon, and she had luck.she had changed the culture of the machinery of government.When Margaret Thatcher was given the Winston Churchill Award by the U.S., the citation read: "Like Churchill she is known for her courage, conviction, determination and willpower. Like Churchill she thrives on adversity." They were both loved and hated but left their mark. Richard King - blogger The Tory Britain for which the Iron Lady and her ideological allies were nostalgic was in many ways illusory. But to the extent that it was real, Thatcher destroyed it. Even now, there are conservative commentators – Peter Hitchens, Roger Scruton – who regard her administration as a disaster. I regard it as a disaster, too, but for different reasons. Thatcher's low-tax, budget-cutting policies, her union-bashing and contempt for local democracy, were corrosive of more than just Tory values; they were corrosive of basic human ones such as fairness and community-spiritedness. The death of 'Tory England' doesn't bother me; I was glad to see the back of it. But few who know Britain well will deny that Thatcher left it a nastier place – coarser, greedier, sadder, more divided. Read your homework. Write at the bottom if they are pro or anti Thatcher and why they are like this. Explain it to your partner. • Fold your paper into 9 to make character cards. Write on them their name, year, occupation, and if they are pro or anti Thatcher and why. Use your research, your partners research, people below and any others you can think of. • A Nottingham miner 1985 • A small business owner 1984 • Geoffrey Howe 1990 • John Major 1993 • Tony Blair • David Cameron • Arrange your cards from anti to pro Thatcher

7. The Legacy of ThatcherAim: to assess whether there was a ‘Thatcher Revolution’ and interpretations of Thatcher over time Where would you put in these other statements? • What kinds of people are generally sympathetic to Thatcher and why? • What kinds of people are not sympathetic to Thatcher and why? • How do interpretations of Thatcher change over time?

8. The Legacy of ThatcherAim: to assess whether there was a ‘Thatcher Revolution’ and interpretations of Thatcher over time

9. The Legacy of ThatcherAim: to assess whether there was a ‘Thatcher Revolution’ and interpretations of Thatcher over time • How have interpretations of Thatcher changed over time? • Whilst Thatcher is in power • The 1990s under Major • 1997 under Blair • 2008 under Gordon Brown and as the economy turned for the worst • 2010 under Cameron – economy continuing to not be fantastic

10. The Legacy of ThatcherAim: to assess whether there was a ‘Thatcher Revolution’ and interpretations of Thatcher over time Other things to note Despite being the first woman PM Thatcher only ever had one woman in her cabinet, people think this was so she could assert her dominance, she also didn’t pass any legislation helping women. However, for a woman to lead a political party and be PM was a major achievemnt She wanted the right of the individual and the family to take precedent over ‘social good’, which was why she rolled back the state and welfare payments so that individuals had more drive to prosper In October 1987 Thatcher gave an interview where she said ‘there’s no such thing as society’ as she wanted to drive this idea of individual responsibility over the ‘social good’. She defended herself by saying the individual, family and neighbours should come before government spending. She wanted to challenge the ‘chattering classes’, often broadsheet and television journalists who listened to social scientists and believed that government spending should be maintained due to Keynesianism and the Beveridge Report. She cut unemployment, sickness, injury, maternity and invalidity benefits by 5%. However due to the sheer number of unemployed people and other costly benefits government expenditure rose by 60%. She didn’t want to keep systems or institutions in being when they had become wasteful and expensive Thatcher said she would ‘do business’ with Gorbachev, as he was a relatively reformist communist. However, she also believed that Communism was the ‘enemy of freedom’. She visited Poland, Hungary and the USSR, and as the ‘iron lady’ became known as someone who represented freedom to them. Poland built chapels and shrines for her, especially as she openly supported ‘Solidarity’ – their campaign to remove themselves from the USSR and communism. People wondered how she could be so anti trade unionist at home, but pro trade unions in Poland, as it was trade unions who particularly promoted Solidarity. Thatcher and Reagan (the US president) got on very well and united against communism. Thatcher promoted the ‘special relationship’ with the USA.

11. The Legacy of ThatcherAim: to assess whether there was a ‘Thatcher Revolution’ and interpretations of Thatcher over time Collect Friday’s lesson, essay improvement and a question. Whelan and Reginald last Friday’s notes. • Was there a Thatcher Revolution? • What do you think of Thatcher?