Thatcher’s Ministers (2025)

Edited by Antony Mullen, Sam Blaxland and Martin Farr.

In progress – contracted to Palgrave Macmillan.

This volume of critical biographies provides an analysis of the key achievements, failures, influences and legacies of Margaret Thatcher’s cabinet ministers. The book aims to give an account of ‘Thatcherism’ by analysing the cogs in the government machine, focusing on those charged with designing and delivering the policies that defined the -ism. Rather than reinforcing stereotypes of Thatcher as the lone domineering figure of the 1979-90 government, it considers instead the role of cabinet government, ministerial agency, the importance (or otherwise) of individual government departments to the political project, and the relationship between Margaret Thatcher and her ministers.

Thatcherism in the 21st Century: The Social and Cultural Legacy (2020)

Edited by Antony Mullen, Stephen Farrall and David Jeffery.

Available now from Palgrave Macmillan.

Reviews

“Whether you’re interested in ideological legacy, policy impact, artistic interpretations, or electoral shifts, this eclectic set of takes on one of Britain’s great ‘watershed’ politicians is indubitably the book for you.”

Tim Bale, Professor of Politics, Queen Mary University of London, UK

“A highly original and deeply impressive collection of essays which offers considerable insight into the complex and varied legacies of Thatcherism whilst laying to rest a series of enduring myths about this most contested period of British politics.”

Colin Hay, Professor of Political Sciences, Sciences Po Paris, France