Bibliography of Margaret Thatcher

Last updated September 11, 2025

This bibliography includes major books and articles about British prime minister Margaret Thatcher and her policies in office.

Thatcher biographies

Aitken, Jonathan (2013). Margaret Thatcher: Power and Personality . New York: Bloomsbury. ISBN 978-1-62040-342-6.
Berlinski, Claire (2008). There Is No Alternative: Why Margaret Thatcher Matters. Basic Books. ISBN 978-0-465-00231-3.
Campbell, John (2000). Margaret Thatcher: The Grocer's Daughter. Vol. 1. Pimlico. ISBN 978-0-7126-7418-8.
——— (2003). Margaret Thatcher: The Iron Lady. Vol. 2. Pimlico. ISBN 978-0-7126-6781-4.
——— (2011). David Freeman (ed.). The Iron Lady: Margaret Thatcher, from Grocer's Daughter to Prime Minister . Penguin Books. ISBN 978-1-101-55866-9.
Cannadine, David (2017). "Thatcher [née Roberts], Margaret Hilda, Baroness Thatcher (1925–2013), prime minister". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/106415.(Subscription, Wikipedia Library access or UK public library membership required.)
——— (2017). Margaret Thatcher: A Life and Legacy . Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-879500-1.
Harris, Robin (2013). Not for Turning: The Life of Margaret Thatcher . Transworld. ISBN 978-1-4481-2738-2.
Just, Peter (2025). Margaret Thatcher: Life After Downing Street. Hull, UK: Biteback Publishing. ISBN 978-1-7859-0920-7. OCLC 1512889058.
Moore, Charles (2013). Margaret Thatcher: From Grantham to the Falklands. Vol. 1. Knopf Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-307-95894-5.
——— (2015). Margaret Thatcher: Everything She Wants . Vol. 2. Penguin Books. ISBN 978-0-241-20126-8.
——— (2016). Margaret Thatcher: At Her Zenith: In London, Washington and Moscow. Vol. 2. Vintage Books. ISBN 978-1-101-87384-7.
——— (2019). Margaret Thatcher: Herself Alone . Vol. 3. Penguin Books. ISBN 978-0-241-32475-2.
Young, Hugo (1989). One of Us . Macmillan (published 2013). ISBN 978-1-4472-5196-5.

Politics

Bale, Tim, ed. (2015). Margaret Thatcher. Critical evaluations of key political leaders. Vol. 4. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-138-79690-4.^[1]
Butler, David and Dennis Kavanagh (1980). The British General Election of 1979 . Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-1-349-04755-0.
——— (1985). The British General Election of 1983 . Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-0-333-34578-8.
——— (1988). The British General Election of 1987 . Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-1-349-19143-7.
Butler, David; Tony Travers; and Andrew Adonis (1994). Failure in British Government: the Politics of the Poll Tax. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-827876-4.
Crines, Andrew S.; Timothy Heppell; and Peter Dorey (2016). The Political Rhetoric and Oratory of Margaret Thatcher . Springer. ISBN 978-1-137-45384-6.
Evans, Eric J. (2001). Thatcher and Thatcherism . Routledge (published 2008). ISBN 978-1-134-77669-6.
Filby, Eliza (2015). God and Mrs Thatcher: The Battle For Britain's Soul . Biteback. ISBN 978-1-84954-888-5.
Halcrow, Morrison (1989). Keith Joseph: A Single Mind. Macmillan London. ISBN 978-0-333-49016-7.
Jenkins, Peter (1988). Mrs. Thatcher's Revolution: Ending of the Socialist Era . Cambridge, US: Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-58833-2. OL 2031622M.
Jenkins, Simon (2006). Thatcher and Sons: A Revolution in Three Acts . Penguin Books. ISBN 978-0-14-191109-0.
Jones, Bill, ed. (1999). Political Issues in Britain Today . Manchester University Press. ISBN 978-0-7190-5432-7.
Letwin, Shirley Robin (1993). The Anatomy of Thatcherism . Transaction. ISBN 978-1-4128-4822-0.
Pugliese, Stanislao G. and Iain Dale, eds. (2003). The Political Legacy of Margaret Thatcher. Politico's. ISBN 978-1-84275-025-4.
Riddell, Peter (1989). The Thatcher Decade: How Britain Has Changed During the 1980s. Blackwell. ISBN 978-0-631-16274-2.
Shell, Donald R. (1985). "The British Constitution in 1984". Parliamentary Affairs. 38 (2): 131–149.
——— (1985). "The House of Lords and the Thatcher government". Parliamentary Affairs. 38 (1): 16–32.
Young, Hugo and Anne Sloman (1986). The Thatcher Phenomenon . London: British Broadcasting Corporation. ISBN 978-0-563-20473-2.

Economics and unions

Backhouse, Roger E. (2002). "The Macroeconomics of Margaret Thatcher". Journal of the History of Economic Thought. 24 (3): 313–334. doi:10.1080/104277102200004767. S2CID 154788348.
Dorey, Peter (2016). "Weakening the Trade Unions, One Step at a Time: The Thatcher Governments' Strategy for the Reform of Trade-Union Law, 1979–1984". Historical Studies in Industrial Relations. 37: 169–200. doi: 10.3828/hsir.2016.37.6 .
Farrall, Stephen and Colin Hay, eds. (2014). The Legacy of Thatcherism: Assessing and Exploring Thatcherite Social and Economic Policies. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-726570-3.
Fry, Geoffrey K. (1985). "Government and Public Administration in 1984". Parliamentary Affairs. 38 (3): 282–295.
Hanson, Charles (2016). Taming the Trade Unions: A Guide to the Thatcher Government's Employment Reforms, 1980–90 . Springer. ISBN 978-1-349-21319-1.
Howell, David; et al. (1987). "Goodbye to all that?: A Review of Literature on the 1984/5 Miners' Strike". Work, Employment & Society. 1 (3): 388–404. doi:10.1177/0950017087001003007. JSTOR 23745863. S2CID 154609889.
Gibbon, Peter (1988). "Analysing the British miners' strike of 1984–5". Economy and Society. 17 (2): 139–194. doi:10.1080/03085148800000008.
Marsh, David (1991). "Privatization under Mrs. Thatcher: a review of the literature". Public Administration. 69 (4): 459–480. doi:10.1111/j.1467-9299.1991.tb00915.x.
——— (1991). "British industrial relations policy transformed: the Thatcher legacy". Journal of Public Policy. 11 (3): 291–313. doi:10.1017/S0143814X00005341.
——— (1992). The New Politics of British Trade Unionism: Union Power and the Thatcher Legacy . Macmillan International Higher Education. ISBN 978-1-349-21921-6.
——— and Heather Savigny (2005). "Changes in trade union–government relations 1974–2002". Politics. 25 (3): 165–174. doi:10.1111/j.1467-9256.2005.00241.x. hdl: 2086/15638 . S2CID 144405462.
Miller, Kenneth and Mairi Steele (1993). "Employment legislation: Thatcher and after". Industrial Relations Journal. 24 (3): 224–235. doi:10.1111/j.1468-2338.1993.tb00675.x.
Norpoth, Helmut (1992). Confidence Regained: Economics, Mrs. Thatcher, and the British Voter . University of Michigan Press. ISBN 0-472-10333-4.
Towers, Brian (1989). "Running the Gauntlet: British Trade Unions under Thatcher, 1979–1988". Industrial and Labor Relations Review . 42 (2): 163–188. JSTOR 2523352 .
Ward, Jacob (2020). "Computer Models and Thatcherist Futures: From Monopolies to Markets in British Telecommunications" . Technology and Culture. 61 (3): 843–870. doi:10.1353/tech.2020.0076. PMID 33416793. S2CID 221468764.
Williamson, Adrian (2016). Conservative Economic Policymaking and the Birth of Thatcherism, 1964–1979 . Palgrave Macmillan UK. ISBN 978-1-137-46026-4.
Wilsher, Peter; Donald Macintyre; and Michael Jones, eds. (1985). Strike: Thatcher, Scargill and the Miners. Coronet Booksess. ISBN 978-0-233-97825-3.

Social policy

Ambler, John S. (1987). "Constraints on Policy Innovation in Education: Thatcher's Britain and Mitterrand's France". Comparative Politics. 20 (1): 85–105. doi:10.2307/421922. JSTOR 421922.
Bull, David and Paul Wilding, eds. (1983). Thatcherism and the Poor. Child Poverty Action Group. ISBN 978-0-903963-57-2.
Dixon, David (1983). "Thatcher's People: The British Nationality Act 1981". Journal of Law and Society . 10 (2): 161–180. doi:10.2307/1410230. JSTOR 1410230.
Douglas, Gillian (1990). "Family law under the Thatcher government". Journal of Law and Society. 17 (17): 411–426. doi:10.2307/1409899. JSTOR 1409899.
Evans, Stephen (2014). "Touching from a Distance: The Younger Generation of One Nation Conservatives and Thatcherism". Parliamentary History . 33 (2): 321–341. doi:10.1111/1750-0206.12102.
Farrall, Stephen and Colin Hay, eds. (2014). The Legacy of Thatcherism: Assessing and Exploring Thatcherite Social and Economic Policies. OUP/British Academy. ISBN 978-0-19-726570-3.
Klein, Rudolf (1985). "Why Britain's conservatives support a socialist health care system". Health Affairs . 4 (1): 41–58. doi:10.1377/hlthaff.4.1.41. PMID 3997046.
Peck, Jamie and Adam Tickell (2007). "Conceptualizing Neoliberalism, Thinking Thatcherism" (PDF). In Helga Leitner; Jamie Peck; and Eric S. Sheppard (eds.). Contesting Neoliberalism: Urban Frontiers . Guilford Press. pp. 26–50. ISBN 978-1-59385-320-4.
Rhodes, Martin (2000). "Desperately seeking a solution: social democracy, Thatcherism and the 'third way' in British welfare". West European Politics. 23 (2): 161–186. doi:10.1080/01402380008425371. S2CID 153504559.
Scott-Samuel, Alex; et al. (2014). "The impact of Thatcherism on health and well-being in Britain" (PDF). International Journal of Health Services. 44 (1): 53–71. doi:10.2190/HS.44.1.d. PMID 24684084. S2CID 33485592.
Sutcliffe-Braithwaite, Florence (2012). "Neo-Liberalism and Morality in the Making of Thatcherite Social Policy" (PDF). The Historical Journal . 55 (2): 497–520. doi:10.1017/S0018246X12000118. JSTOR 23263347. S2CID 144487600. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2020-11-30. Retrieved 2020-11-23.
Vinen, Richard (2009). Thatcher's Britain: The Politics and Social Upheaval of the 1980s. London: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-1-84737-175-1.
Whitty, Geoff and Ian Menter (1988). "Lessons of Thatcherism: education policy in England and Wales 1979–88". Journal of Law and Society. 16 (1): 42–64. doi:10.2307/1409976. JSTOR 1409976.

Foreign policy

Aldous, Richard (2012). Reagan and Thatcher: The Difficult Relationship . W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 978-0-393-08315-6.
Aughey, Arthur and Cathy Gormley-Heenan (2011). "The Anglo‐Irish Agreement: 25 Years On". Political Quarterly. 82 (3): 389–397. doi:10.1111/j.1467-923X.2011.02202.x.
——— (2011). The Anglo-Irish Agreement: Re-thinking its Legacy. Manchester University Press. ISBN 978-0-7190-8498-0.
Bennett, Harry (2004). "Lord Carrington: Foreign Secretary, 1979–82" . In Kevin Theakston (ed.). British Foreign Secretaries Since 1974. Psychology Press. pp. 131–154. ISBN 978-0-7146-5656-4.
Bermant, Azriel (2016). Margaret Thatcher and the Middle East . Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-107-15194-9.
Brown, Archie (2008). "The Change to Engagement in Britain's Cold War Policy: The Origins of the Thatcher-Gorbachev Relationship". Journal of Cold War Studies. 10 (3): 3–47. doi:10.1162/jcws.2008.10.3.3. S2CID 57561387.
——— (2020). The Human Factor: Gorbachev, Reagan, and Thatcher, and the End of the Cold War . OUP Oxford. ISBN 978-0-19-106561-3.
——— (2020). "Political leadership in the Cold War's ending: Thatcher and the turn to engagement with the Soviet Union". British Politics and Policy at LSE. Archived from the original on 16 Jun 2020.
Bruni, Domenico Maria (2018). "A leader at war: Margaret Thatcher and the Falklands crisis of 1982". Observatoire de la société britannique (20): 135–157. doi:10.4000/osb.2007.
Byrd, Peter, ed. (1988). British Foreign Policy under Thatcher. St. Martin's Press. ISBN 978-0-86003-401-8.
Carroll, Rory (2023). Killing Thatcher: The IRA, the Manhunt and the Long War on the Crown . London: HarperCollins. ISBN 978-0-00-847667-0. Published in the United States under the title There Will Be Fire: Margaret Thatcher, the IRA, and Two Minutes That Changed History.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link)^[2]
Cooper, James (2016). "From Reykjavik to Fulton: Reagan, Thatcher, and the ending of the Cold War" (PDF). Journal of Transatlantic Studies. 14 (4): 383–400. doi:10.1080/14794012.2016.1230259. S2CID 152137073.
Donaghy, Aaron (2017). "Margaret Thatcher's Private Secretaries for Foreign Affairs, 1979–1984". In Andrew Holt and Warren Dockter (eds.). Private Secretaries to the Prime Minister: Foreign Affairs from Churchill to Thatcher . Taylor & Francis. pp. 166–186. ISBN 978-1-317-07563-9.
Gibran, Daniel K. (2008). The Falklands War: Britain Versus the Past in the South Atlantic . McFarland & Company. ISBN 978-0-7864-9009-7.
Grachev, Andrei (2010). "Political and Personal: Gorbachev, Thatcher and the End of the Cold War". JEIH Journal of European Integration History. 16 (1): 45–57. doi:10.5771/0947-9511-2010-1-45.
Ionescu, Ghiță (1991). Leadership in an Interdependent World: The Statesmanship of Adenauer, De Gaulle, Thatcher, Reagan & Gorbachev. Westview Press. ISBN 978-0-8133-1399-3.
Kelly, Stephen (2020). "'The Anglo-Irish Agreement put us on side with the Americans': Margaret Thatcher, Anglo-American relations and the path to the Anglo-Irish Agreement, 1979–1985". Contemporary British History. 34 (3): 433–457. doi:10.1080/13619462.2020.1769607. S2CID 219739740.
Novak, Andrew (2009). "Face-saving maneuvers and strong third-party mediation: the Lancaster house conference on Zimbabwe-Rhodesia". International Negotiation. 14 (1): 149–174. doi:10.1163/157180609X406553.
Renwick, Robin (2013). A Journey with Margaret Thatcher: Foreign Policy Under the Iron Lady . Biteback. ISBN 978-1-84954-575-4.
Shannon, William V. (1986). "The Anglo-Irish Agreement". Foreign Affairs. 64 (4): 849–870. doi:10.2307/20042691. JSTOR 20042691.
Sharp, Paul (2016). Thatcher's Diplomacy: The Revival of British Foreign Policy . Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-0-333-98368-3.
——— (1991). "Thatcher's Wholly British Foreign Policy". Orbis . 35 (3): 395–410.
Stacey, Emily (2014). "From hectoring, dogmatic woman to a special relationship: Margaret Thatcher and Jimmy Carter, 1977–1979". White House Studies. 14 (2).
Stoddart, Kristan (2014). Facing Down the Soviet Union: Britain, the USA, NATO and Nuclear Weapons, 1976–1983 . Palgrave Macmillan UK. ISBN 978-1-137-44033-4.
Turner, Michael J. (2010). Britain's International Role, 1970–1991 . Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-0-230-36728-9.
Wapshott, Nicholas (2007). Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher: A Political Marriage . Sentinel. ISBN 978-1-59523-047-8.

Historiography

Bevir, Mark and Rod A. W. Rhodes (1998). "Narratives of 'Thatcherism'". West European Politics . 21 (1): 97–119. doi:10.1080/01402389808425234.
Campbell, Beatrix (2015). "Margaret Thatcher: To be or not to be a woman". British Politics. 10 (1): 41–51. doi:10.1057/bp.2014.27. S2CID 143944033.
Garnett, Mark (2007). "Banality in Politics: Margaret Thatcher and the Biographers". Political Studies Review . 5 (2): 172–182. doi:10.1111/j.1478-9299.2007.00127.x. S2CID 145538768.
Harrison, Brian (1994). "Mrs. Thatcher and the Intellectuals". Twentieth Century British History. 5 (2): 206–245. doi:10.1093/tcbh/5.2.206.
——— (2014). "Margaret Thatcher's Impact on Historical Writing". In Wm. Roger Louis (ed.). Irrepressible Adventures with Britannia: Personalities, Politics, and Culture in Britain. I.B. Tauris. ISBN 978-1-78076-798-7.
Jackson, Ben and Robert Saunders, eds. (2012). Making Thatcher's Britain . Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-107-01238-7.
Kelly, Stephen (2021). Margaret Thatcher, the Conservative Party and the Northern Ireland Conflict, 1975–1990 . Bloomsbury. ISBN 978-1-350-11538-5.
Kowol, Kit (2016). "Renaissance on the Right? New Directions in the History of the Post-War Conservative Party". Twentieth Century British History. 27 (2): 290–304. doi:10.1093/tcbh/hww012.
Kwarteng, Kwasi (2015). Thatcher's Trial: Six Months That Defined a Leader . Bloomsbury. ISBN 978-1-4088-5919-3.
Marquand, David (1987). "The literature on Thatcher". Contemporary British History. 1 (3): 30–31. doi:10.1080/13619468708580911.
Panton, Kenneth J. and Keith A. Cowlard, eds. (2008). Historical Dictionary of the Contemporary United Kingdom . Scarecrow Press. p. 640. ISBN 978-0-8108-5091-0.
Pilcher, Jane (1995). "The gender significance of women in power: British women talking about Margaret Thatcher". European Journal of Women's Studies. 2 (4): 493–508. doi:10.1177/135050689500200405. S2CID 144965800.
Porter, Bernard (1994). "'Though Not an Historian Myself ...' Margaret Thatcher and the Historians". Twentieth Century British History. 5 (2): 246–256. doi:10.1093/tcbh/5.2.246.
Roy, Subroto and John Clarke, eds. (2006). Margaret Thatcher's Revolution: How it Happened and What it Meant . A & C Black. ISBN 978-0-8264-8279-2.
Saunders, Robert (2017). "The Many Lives of Margaret Thatcher". English Historical Review. 132 (556): 638–658. doi: 10.1093/ehr/cex137 .
Stewart, Graham (2013). Bang!: A History of Britain in the 1980s . Atlantic Books. ISBN 978-1-78239-137-1.
Turner, John (1999). "The British Conservative Party in the Twentieth Century: from Beginning to End?". Contemporary European History . 8 (2): 275–287. doi:10.1017/s0960777399002052.
Vinen, Richard (2009). Thatcher's Britain: The Politics and Social Upheaval of the Thatcher Era . Simon & Schuster (published 2013). ISBN 978-1-4711-2828-8.

Primary sources

Dale, Iain, ed. (2013). Memories of Margaret Thatcher: A Portrait, By Those Who Knew Her Best . Biteback. ISBN 978-1-84954-612-6.
Heseltine, Michael (2001). Life in the Jungle: My Autobiography. Coronet Books. ISBN 978-0-340-73916-7.
Howe, Geoffrey (1994). Conflict of Loyalty. Macmillan. ISBN 978-0-333-59283-0.
Hurd, Douglas (2003). Memoirs. Abacus. ISBN 978-0-349-11828-4.
Lamont, Norman (1999). In Office. Little, Brown. ISBN 978-0-316-64707-6.
Lawson, Nigel (1992). The View from No. 11: Memoirs of a Tory Radical. Bantam Press. ISBN 978-0-593-02218-4.
——— (2011). Memoirs of a Tory Radical (abridged ed.). Biteback. ISBN 978-1-84954-279-1.
Major, John (1999). John Major: The Autobiography . HarperCollins (published 2013). ISBN 978-0-00-740046-1.
Parkinson, Cecil (1992). Right at the Centre. Weidenfeld & Nicolson. ISBN 978-0-297-81262-3.
Ridley, Nicholas (1991). 'My Style of Government': The Thatcher Years . London, UK: Hutchinson. ISBN 978-0-09-175051-0.
Tebbit, Norman (1988). Upwardly Mobile. Weidenfeld & Nicolson. ISBN 978-0-297-79427-1.
Thatcher, Margaret (1993). The Downing Street Years. HarperCollins. ISBN 978-0-00-255354-4.^[3]
——— (1995). The Path to Power. HarperCollins. ISBN 978-0-00-638753-4.^[4]
——— (1997). Robin Harris (ed.). The Collected Speeches of Margaret Thatcher . HarperCollins. ISBN 978-0-06-018734-7.
——— (2003). Statecraft: Strategies for a Changing World. Harper Perennial. ISBN 978-0-06-095912-8.
——— (2013). Robin Harris (ed.). Margaret Thatcher: The Autobiography . HarperCollins. ISBN 978-0-00-741694-3.
Urban, George (1996). Diplomacy and Disillusion at the Court of Margaret Thatcher: An Insider's View. Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN 978-1-86064-084-1.

Notes

↑ Reviewed by Saunders (2017).
↑ Carroll, Rory (2023). There Will Be Fire: Margaret Thatcher, the IRA, and Two Minutes That Changed History. Penguin Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-593-41949-6.
↑ Thatcher, Margaret (5 December 1993). "The Downing Street Years". Booknotes (Interview). Interviewed by Brian Lamb. Washington, District of Columbia: C-SPAN.
↑ Thatcher, Margaret (25 June 1995). "The Path to Power". Booknotes (Interview). Interviewed by Steve Scully. Washington, District of Columbia: C-SPAN.

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[1] Reviewed by Saunders (2017).

[2] Carroll, Rory (2023). There Will Be Fire: Margaret Thatcher, the IRA, and Two Minutes That Changed History. Penguin Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-593-41949-6.

[3] Thatcher, Margaret (5 December 1993). "The Downing Street Years". Booknotes (Interview). Interviewed by Brian Lamb. Washington, District of Columbia: C-SPAN.

[4] Thatcher, Margaret (25 June 1995). "The Path to Power". Booknotes (Interview). Interviewed by Steve Scully. Washington, District of Columbia: C-SPAN.

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