Our Thatcher’s Ministers conferences were held at University College London on Thursday 23rd and Friday 24th June 2022 and at King’s College London on Friday 12th and Saturday 13th January 2024.

These conferences are tied to our Thatcher’s Ministers book project which, like the conferences, aims to explore the extent to which ‘Thatcherism’ was shaped by cabinet ministers of the Thatcher era – rather than the Prime Minister herself, who sometimes disagreed with policies her government pursued.

The conferences featured biographies of individual cabinet ministers by leading academics, focusing upon the ministers’ contributions to the political project to which Thatcher gave her name.

At the 2022 conference, a keynote was delivered by Caroline Slocock – former Private Secretary to Margaret Thatcher – who will speak on Thatcher and Cabinet Government.

The Thatcher’s Ministers project also contributed to the 2024 Britain and the World Annual Conference, which featured a paper on Kenneth Baker as Education Secretary and a panel on Margaret Thatcher’s Foreign Secretaries. The latter also featured on the programme of the Transatlantic Studies Association 22nd Annual Conference.