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Authors: Gillian Shephard
Margaret Thatcher’s professionalism, attention to detail, immaculate appearance and seemingly indefatigable constitution were all on show during her tour of Norfolk in 1974.
Election day, 1979. Margaret Thatcher’s reaction to her historic win is captured in these candid photographs.
© Sarah Joiner
Mrs T. in finest attire on a visit to Plymouth.
© Baroness Fookes
An outsider with her insider: Denis and Margaret Thatcher.
Mrs T. with Gillian Shephard.
A woman in a man’s world: Mrs T. is applauded by her Cabinet colleagues, including Nigel Lawson, Geoffrey Howe, Norman Fowler, Tom King, John Major and Douglas Hurd.
© Press Association
Paving the way for women in politics: Mrs T. and the female MPs of 1991, featuring Lynda Chalker (left of MT), Janet Fookes (directly behind MT) and Gillian Shephard (far front right).
© Peter Beal and John Rifkin