From New Left Project
''Three decades have now passed since Thatcher came to power, meaning that
new archival material has become available to scholars under the
‘thirty year rule’. There is also, however, a good political rationale
for revisiting this period (though not one that necessarily motivates
the contributors to this collection). Those who were mindful to look at
the actual evidence already knew that the lofty claims made about the
record of Thatcherism were little more than triumphalist bluster.[3]
But now, in the aftermath of a spectacular financial crash and the
midst of a seemingly never ending economic crisis, few can doubt that
Thatcherism has been discredited. It seems like a good time, then, to
look again at the political disaster that was Thatcherism, if only to
ask: how did we get here? ''
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