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nigelfletcher.bsky.social
As today is the centenary of Margaret Thatcher’s birth, I think it’s obligatory to treat you to a succession of anecdotes about her.
Here goes:
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October 13, 2025 at 7:38 AM
jamesbarr.bsky.social
My Thatcher100 anecdote.

Summer 1998. I am a keen shot and have narrowly squeezed into the GB under-25s rifle shooting and am shortly off to Canada for its annual open competition and the match vs the Canadians.
October 13, 2025 at 7:35 AM
expremiers.bsky.social
💥 Publication alert!

😊 Delighted to have a chapter in this @lordnortonlouth.bsky.social and Matt Beech edited volume.

📘 'The Elgar Companion to Margaret Thatcher' inspired 'Margaret Thatcher: Life After Downing Street'.

🛒 Order a copy here:
www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/elg...

#Thatcher #Thatcher100
Cover of 'Elgar Companion to Margaret Thatcher' edited by Philip Norton and Matt Beech.
November 10, 2025 at 7:03 AM
expremiers.bsky.social
🛒 You can preorder 'Margaret Thatcher: Life After Downing Street' via: amazon.co.uk/Margaret-Tha...

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A book cover featuring an image of Margaret Thatcher. It reads, 'Margaret Thatcher: Life After Downing Street', Peter Just. There is a quote from Andrew Roberts, 'A joy to read'.
July 12, 2025 at 8:32 AM
nigelfletcher.bsky.social
Some more #Thatcher100 from the Fletcher archive: In 2007 I organised an exhibition in Parliament to mark 30 years since Mrs Thatcher was the first Leader of the Opposition to use the current Shadow Cabinet Room. It was quite the event - with all the (then) Conservative Leaders of the Opposition.
October 13, 2025 at 12:36 PM
peterdjust.bsky.social
🤔 'I love abstaining'

🤭 Who knew?!

#ThatcherAfterDowningStreet #Thatcher #MargaretThatcher #Thatcher100
expremiers.bsky.social Peter Just @expremiers.bsky.social · Jul 16
🚨 Great to see this in John Rentoul's 'Commons Confidential' newsletter about last night's 'Margaret Thatcher: Life After Downing Street' launch.

▶️ You can subscribe to the newsletter here: independent.co.uk/subscribe

🤭 And learn below why I love abstaining!
Extract from John Rentoul's Commons Confidential newsletter about the launch of 'Margaret Thatcher: Life After Downing Street'. Extract from John Rentoul's Commons Confidential newsletter about the launch of 'Margaret Thatcher: Life After Downing Street'. Extract from John Rentoul's Commons Confidential newsletter about the launch of 'Margaret Thatcher: Life After Downing Street'.
July 16, 2025 at 8:12 PM
expremiers.bsky.social
😊 Where 'Margaret Thatcher: Life After Downing Street' began.

🤦🏻‍♂️ The first draft of my 10,000 word chapter came out at 80,000 words.

🤯 Yes, really.

⭐️ That's Margaret Thatcher for you.

#Thatcher100 #Thatcher #MargaretThatcher #ThatcherAfterDowningStreet #ExPremiers
lordnortonlouth.bsky.social Lord Norton of Louth @lordnortonlouth.bsky.social · Sep 30
Being published on 28 November. ‘A pungent and dynamic set of essays helping to explain the phenomenon that is Thatcher through the lens of history.’ -- Sir Anthony Seldon
www.amazon.co.uk/Companion-Ma...
September 30, 2025 at 12:10 PM
expremiers.bsky.social
💡 An explanation from @lordnortonlouth.bsky.social of why Margaret Thatcher was such a successful Prime Minister.

📘 And, as #ThatcherAfterDowningStreet shows, why even now we can't stop talking about her, whether we're
Conservative or Labour.

#MargaretThatcher #Thatcher100 #Thatcher #ExPremiers
May 11, 2025 at 4:52 PM
expremiers.bsky.social
📘 You can order the @lordnortonlouth.bsky.social and Matt Beech edited 'Elgar Companion to Margaret Thatcher' on the link below.

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#Thatcher #MargaretThatcher #Thatcher100 #ExPremiers #ThatcherAfterDowningStreet

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Elgar Companion to Margaret Thatcher
‘In my judgement this collection of expert and scholarly essays is a lastingly valuable source for those who wish to have an understanding of Margaret Thatcher and Thatcherism.’ – Robin Butler, Head o...
www.e-elgar.com
December 5, 2025 at 7:09 AM
expremiers.bsky.social
📽️ With the publication of 'Margaret Thatcher: Life After Downing Street' getting ever closer, here's how The National Archives have exploded so many of the myths that have shrouded her life after 1990.

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July 12, 2025 at 8:28 AM
expremiers.bsky.social
🤔 What did Margaret Thatcher think of the UK's departure from the Exchange Rate Mechanism?

📘 Find out in 'Margaret Thatcher: Life After Downing Street':
www.bitebackpublishing.com/books/margar...

🎦 This clip gives you a clue!

#Thatcher100 #Thatcher #MargaretThatcher #IronLady #LadyT #IconicLady
September 19, 2025 at 6:14 AM
expremiers.bsky.social
👜 Another #ConservativePartyConference another Margaret Thatcher tote bag.

1️⃣ On the left from #CPC25 courtesy of the Conservative Environment Network.
2️⃣ On the right from a previous conference courtesy of @lordnortonlouth.bsky.social

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Two tote bags featuring Margaret Thatcher.
October 7, 2025 at 8:25 AM
expremiers.bsky.social
📅 #OTD in 1991 Margaret Thatcher delivered the Clare Boothe Luce Lecture:
www.margaretthatcher.org/document/108...

🤩 Read all about why one attendee was 'stunned' by the reaction she received in 'Margaret Thatcher: Life After Downing Street':
www.bitebackpublishing.com/books/margar...

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Extract from Margaret Thatcher's Clare Boothe Luce Lecture on 23 September 1991.
September 23, 2025 at 6:22 AM
expremiers.bsky.social
🤩 Delighted to meet the outfit with which the story of 'Margaret Thatcher: Life After Downing Street' begins at #CPC25 this morning.

#Thatcher100 #Thatcher #MargaretThatcher #ExPremiers #ThatcherAfterDowningStreet
A man holding a copy of 'Margaret Thatcher: Life After Downing Street' next to the outfit Margaret Thatcher wore on the day of her resignation.
October 6, 2025 at 2:06 PM
expremiers.bsky.social
📘 'Margaret Thatcher: Life After Downing Street' is out on 29 July and can be preordered now: bitebackpublishing.com/books/margar...

#ThatcherAfterDowningStreet #Thatcher100 #MargaretThatcher #Thatcher

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A book cover featuring an image of Margaret Thatcher. It reads, 'Margaret Thatcher: Life After Downing Street', Peter Just. There is a quote from Andrew Roberts, 'A joy to read'.
July 17, 2025 at 6:57 AM
nigelfletcher.bsky.social
UPDATE: I have dug my photos out of the Fletcher archive… the full Margaret Thatcher circus at the Conservative Party conference in Bournemouth, 1998.
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October 13, 2025 at 10:10 AM
expremiers.bsky.social
📚 Delighted to see 'Margaret Thatcher: Life After Downing Street' in such good company in Hull recently.

🎁 It's the ideal Christmas present, available in bookshops or online:
www.bitebackpublishing.com/books/margar...

#Thatcher #MargaretThatcher #Thatcher100 #ThatcherAfterDowningStreet
Charles Moore's single volume biography of Margaret Thatcher, Peter Just's 'Margaret Thatcher: Life After Downing Street', Iain Dale's short biography of Margaret Thatcher, and Tina Gaudoin's 'The Incidental Feminist' on a bookshelf in Hull.
December 16, 2025 at 6:54 AM
expremiers.bsky.social
🚨 Another area of work for Margaret Thatcher after 1990 was 'party'.

📘 It features in 'Margaret Thatcher: Life After Downing Street'.

🛒 #ThatcherAfterDowningStreet can be preordered now:
www.bitebackpublishing.com/books/margar...

#Thatcher100 #MargaretThatcher #Thatcher #ExPremiers

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A book cover featuring an image of Margaret Thatcher. It reads, 'Margaret Thatcher: Life After Downing Street', Peter Just. There is a quote from Andrew Roberts, 'A joy to read'.
June 2, 2025 at 7:01 AM
expremiers.bsky.social
🚆 #ThatcherAfterDowningStreetOnTour starts with a trip to The North via Hull Trains.

📘 'Margaret Thatcher: Life After Downing Street' is about putting us all right on her ex-premiership, as she put us right about more or less everything between 1990 and 2002.

#Thatcher100
The book 'Margaret Thatcher: Life After Downing Street' next to a Hull Trains train on a platform at King's Cross station.
July 30, 2025 at 1:01 PM
peterdjust.bsky.social
😊 Not my average Sunday morning, and, I think, the first time I've been on live TV since my Big Breakfast appearance in 2001.

😍 But great to speak about 'Margaret Thatcher: Life After Downing Street' on GB News this morning.

#ThatcherAfterDowningStreet #MargaretThatcher #Thatcher100 #Thatcher

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A man on GB News. A man on GB News. Two men on GB News. Two men on GB News.
July 20, 2025 at 1:35 PM
expremiers.bsky.social
🗓️ #OTD in 1991, 1995, and 2009, Margaret Thatcher was in the news.

📘 'Margaret Thatcher: Life After Downing Street' covers all three and can be preordered now:
www.bitebackpublishing.com/books/margar...

#Thatcher100 #MargaretThatcher #Thatcher #ExPremiers #ThatcherAfterDowningStreet

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🗓️ #OTD in 1991, 1995, and 2009, Margaret Thatcher was in the news. 📘 'Margaret Thatcher: Life After Downing Street' covers all three and can be preordered now: https://www.bitebackpublishing.com/books/margaretthatcher #Thatcher100 #MargaretThatcher #Thatcher #ExPremiers #ThatcherAfterDowningStreet 53/100
May 28, 2025 at 6:57 AM
expremiers.bsky.social
📘 As part of #ThatcherAfterDowningStreetOnTour we took 'Margaret Thatcher: Life After Downing Street' back to Parliament yesterday.

🛒 You can preorder your copy now:
www.bitebackpublishing.com/books/margar...

#ThatcherAfterDowningStreet #MargaretThatcher #Thatcher100 #Thatcher
July 27, 2025 at 6:45 AM
expremiers.bsky.social
💥 Margaret Thatcher: special announcement.

🗓️ Tomorrow, we're launching the 'Margaret Thatcher: Life After Downing Street' Advent Calendar.

🎄 24 reasons over 24 days to buy the book this Christmas.

🥳 And the usual daily tweets.

😻 Yes, really!

#Thatcher100 #Thatcher #MargaretThatcher
A book cover featuring an image of Margaret Thatcher. It reads, 'Margaret Thatcher: Life After Downing Street', Peter Just. There is a quote from Andrew Roberts, 'A joy to read'.
November 30, 2025 at 8:07 AM
expremiers.bsky.social
🚨 I was delighted to discuss all things former Prime Ministers and Parliament - including 'Margaret Thatcher: Life After Downing Street' - with @ruthfox.bsky.social and @darcyxtip.bsky.social.

⬇️ Check out our conversation below.

#Thatcher100 #Thatcher #ParliamentAfterDowningStreet #ExPremiers
October 4, 2025 at 5:55 AM
expremiers.bsky.social
🚨 Unlike some of her more recent successors, Margaret Thatcher was keen to retain a parliamentary seat after Downing Street.

🎧 I discussed this with @ruthfox.bsky.social and @darcyxtip.bsky.social in a recent @hansardsociety.bsky.social Parliament Matters podcast.

#Thatcher #Thatcher100

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October 5, 2025 at 9:08 AM