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Celebrity supporters of Margaret Thatcher

The 70s 80s 90s Blog5 years ago3 years ago03 mins

Margaret Thatcher had some prominent celebrity supporters in the early 1980s as Tony McMahon discovers in the archives

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Thatcher was not a feminist

The 70s 80s 90s Blog13 years ago3 years ago09 mins

In recent years, Thatcher has been lauded as a feminist icon – an idea that would have been laughed at in the 1980s

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