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W
HEN YOU WERE
born and where you lived undoubtedly defined your experience, and, most probably, still determines your opinion of the Thatcher years. I was born on the night of the Brixton riots in April 1981 in nearby Tooting where copycat disturbances prompted my father to start boarding up the front windows of the house, during which his frantic nail-banging triggered my mother’s waters to break. I can safely say that I am a child of Thatcher, yet I have no personal tales of struggle or success associated with that tumultuous decade. I am neither the daughter of a miner nor a Sloane Ranger. I do not remember ever reading
Jenny Lives with Peter and Eric
but I do recall ‘AIDS’ being the ultimate curse in the playground. We lived in a house rather than a flat, which my father owned, but we were not benefactors of Thatcher’s ‘sale of the century’, rather of a risky bet my grandfather had won on the eve of war. Margaret Thatcher was very much in the background rather than in the foreground in my youth; an absence which I have more than made up for in my adult life.
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I HAVE ACCRUED
many debts in the writing of this book: financial, intellectual and personal. The Department of History at King’s College London proved a stimulating and rewarding environment in which to be based and thanks must go to the departmental staff, especially Richard Vinen and Pat Thane as well as my PhD supervisor Matthew Thomson at Warwick for all their support and encouragement.
Special thanks also go to all the undergraduates who took the ‘Britain’s Thatcher’ course between 2010 and 2014. My students forced me to think and rethink my ideas about the 1980s and reaffirmed my belief that teaching is a privilege, which often benefits the teacher more than the student.
If a historian is wholly dependent on their archives, then this book is entirely indebted to the countless number of librarians and archivists who managed to unearth obscure and often uncatalogued material from their respective basements. My thanks go to all the staff at the British Library and those at John Ryland’s Library, Grantham Library, Winchester Records Office, Lincolnshire Records Office, Lambeth Palace and Manchester Central Library. There are a few archivists to whom I am especially grateful: Paul Webster at Liverpool City Archives, Meg Whittle at Liverpool Catholic Cathedral Archives, Chris Collins for granting me permission to use the Margaret Thatcher papers and for creating the Margaret Thatcher Foundation website, which is unparalleled in its breadth, accessibility and comprehension. Finally, the irrepressible Andrew Riley, keeper of the Thatcher papers at Churchill College, Cambridge, for all his help and guidance in both my teaching and research. I am also extremely grateful to those who gave me permission to use such material, including the Archbishop’s Council, Rt Rev. Nigel McCulloch, Enoch Powell’s Literary Estate, Derek Worlock’s Literary Executors for special permission to view and print his papers and the late Lady Grace Sheppard, who not only granted me full access to the David Sheppard archive but also proved a most stimulating and informative interviewee; it is privilege to be able to call their daughter, Jenny Sinclair, a friend. In conducting interviews with both Anglicans and Conservatives it really did seem as if I was encountering two different ‘Englands’ and yet both were characterised by their warm hospitality and enthusiasm for the project. I am incredibly grateful to the following for their time and contributions: Jonathan Aitken, Rt Hon. Lord Baker, Rt Rev. Michael Baughen,
Rt Hon. Lord Powell of Bayswater, Rt Rev. Ronnie Bowlby, Rt Rev. Tom Butler, Rt Hon. Lord Carey, Cynthia Crawford, Rt Hon. Frank Field, Rt Lord Gummer, Rt Hon. Lord Harries, Derek Hatton, Rt Hon. Lord Howe, Rt Hon. Lord Hurd, Sir Bernard Ingham, Rt Hon. Lord Jenkin, Rt Hon. Lord Lawson, Clifford Longley, Rt Rev. David Jenkins, Anthony Kilmister OBE, Prof. Diarmaid MacCulloch, Prof. David Martin, Charles Moore, Rev. Dr Edward Norman, Sir Richard O’Brien, Rt Hon. Lord Parkinson, Rt Hon. Lord Charles Powell, Hon. James Runcie, Rt Hon. Lord Sacks, Rt Rev. Mark Santer, Dr Michael Schluter, Lady Grace Sheppard, Rt Hon. Lord Tebbit, Harvey Thomas CBE, Rt Hon. Lord Wakeham and Rt Hon. Ann Widdecome. Finally, Richard O’Brien, Tony Benn, Humphrey Carpenter, Rev. Eric James and Very Reverend Alan Webster, who all unfortunately passed away while I was writing this book.
Special thanks must go to Aaron Simons for some early investigative work, Alfie Stirling for some fast and fantastic trips to the National Archives and Grantham, and Connor Lovell, whose help was invaluable as I limped over the final hurdle. I am also grateful to Ben Wright for nudging me out of my academic mindset and Hugh Dougherty for making my words palatable for popular print. To my publishers at Biteback: Iain Dale for daring to publish a book called
God and Mrs Thatcher
and my editors Victoria Godden and Olivia Beattie for all their help, encouragement and, above all, patience. I am also grateful to the anonymous reviewers for their feedback on the initial manuscript, whose suggestions greatly improved this book. I owe a great debt of gratitude to Professor Philip Williamson, Dr Dianne Kirby and Professor Linda Woodhead for their constructive feedback on the second draft and especially Rt Rev. Mark Santer who painstakingly went through the entire manuscript with great proficiency and speed. The faults that remain are of course entirely my own.
On a personal level, I am indebted to Rogan, Bharji, my sisters Kate and Alex, Debbie Giacomin, Ali Alizadeh, Victoria Lawrence,
Paul Wicks, Sarah Sanderson, Katherine Wilson and Charlotte Riley for never asking ‘when’s the book out?’ and constantly reminding me that there is more to life than Mrs Thatcher. I am grateful, too, to ‘Smugla’ Brown, Steven Clarke, Leslie Joynes and Timmy Freed for both challenging my individualism and testing my altruism. Thanks also go to Carolyn Rennie and Elvis Afchu for bolstering my physical and mental faculties at times of profound stress. Wynton Marsalis has proved a constant source of inspiration throughout, not least in forcing me to consider why the story of Thatcher and the Church of England would be of interest to a trumpet player from New Orleans. Likewise my ‘Renaissance Men’, especially David Pearl and Martin Lovegrove, whose enthusiasm and example have been a great stimulus and Andrew St George, who embodies the concept of ‘Renaissance Man’ more than most. Thanks must also go to John and Kerry Fanning at La Muse Writers’ Retreat and to all those at Chalosse for providing idyllic settings in which I was able to write without distraction. Finally, to the Pearly Queen of Mitcham, great aunt Phyllis Derbyshire, who did not live to see the final result and definitely would not have read it if she had. Above all, my greatest thanks must go to my parents, Susan and Leslie Filby, for encouraging a sense of history and for their unconditional and unfailing support. I am forever in their debt. It is to them that this book is dedicated.