Online Seminar
Margaret Thatcher came to power following the humiliating spectacle of the British Government going into the International Monetary Fund, cap in hand, for a bailout.
Her government's election came after a disastrous Winter of Discontent, in which rubbish wasn't collected and bodies weren't buried. After leaving power, Thatcher was given a full statue outside the House of Commons to recognise her profound impact upon British life, and was the only British Prime Minister of the twentieth century to have given her name to an enduring framework of ideals: Thatcherism.
That framework of ideals may be summarised, perhaps best, as anti-socialist. What was Thatcher's problem with socialism? What were the historical, economic, philosophical, and ideological reasons that Thatcher believed that 'to cure the British disease with socialism was like trying to cure leukaemia with leeches'?