STORY: Death of Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher Dominates U.K. News Coverage The English Beat voiced their disdain with the genteel “Stand Down Margaret.” ...

At some point in her 11-year rule, Margaret Thatcher adopted the royal prerogative of referring to herself in the plural - as when she announced the birth of a child to her daughter Carol in 1989.

Thatcher becomes the first female prime minister of Great Britain on May 4, 1979. Sharing a message of hope during her first day on the job, she faces a tough first term bogged down by ...

‘Stand Down Margaret’: English Beat’s Dave Wakeling Reflects on Anti-Thatcher Anthem Says the 80s ska band's guitarist and vocalist: "Most everything about Margaret Thatcher was pretend ...

Thatcher’s rise to the leadership of the Conservative Party and the longest British premiership since the early nineteenth century, was reported in our pages via Mollie Panter-Downes’s regular ...