A hundred years ago this coming Monday, Margaret Roberts was born above her father’s grocer’s shop in Grantham.

Nearly every family has had an iron lady, a strong, determined woman — usually a mother, grandmother or aunt — who comes to the fore in hard times and saves the family farm, the family business or ...

The two trailblazing women met weekly for 11 years during the prime minister’s three terms, but the rumored tension may have also been filled with mutual respect.

Elaine Showalter is a professor emerita of English at Princeton University. When the second volume of Charles Moore’s monumental biography of Margaret Thatcher came out in 2015, she had two ...

To appreciate the greatness of Margaret Thatcher — as this excellent biography makes possible — you must go back to Grantham ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Click to print (Opens in new window) Click to share on X (Opens in new window) The first volume ...

A sensational new book has claimed that former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher had two extramarital affairs during her ...

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. In the case of Mrs. Thatcher there were subsidiary reasons to favor such a strategy. First, there already existed ...

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Margaret Thatcher: The Authorized Biography, Volume Three: Herself Alone, by Charles Moore (Allen Lane, 880 pp., $24.06) Right after World War II, Labour prime minister Clement Attlee, overly ...

He was a potential prime minister until he left high office to care for his wife, who was seriously hurt in a bombing by the Irish Republican Army. By Alan Cowell In “The Siege,” Ben Macintyre gives a ...