This new Seminar Study, by one of the experts on the subject, provides students with a balanced historical analysis of the Thatcher years and their consequences. Within a chronological framework, Dr Seldon analyses the many controversial episodes and aspects of Margaret Thatcher's premiership, including the Falklands War, the miners' strike, Britain's relations with America and the stationing of missiles at Greenham Common, In particular, there is a chapter discussing the impact which her policies had on the British people at large and Britain's changing social and economic circumstances between 1979 and 1990.