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Issue 2.4 - Special Issue "Thatcher's Legacies" Previous Issues

Thatcher’s Legacies: Editor’s Introduction

Bianca Leggett July 21, 2013 7 Comments 1980s childhood Margaret Thatcher Thatcher's children

Even before her death, Margaret Thatcher was a figure who seemed to prompt visions of haunting and exorcism. She was a curse whose effects were still felt…

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Issue 2.4 - Special Issue "Thatcher's Legacies" Previous Issues

Margaret Thatcher in the 21st Century

Joseph Brooker July 21, 2013 1 Comment 1980s 80s Alan Hollinghurst anti-Thatcher songs Conservative Party David Peace Eighties fiction GB84 Iain Sinclair Margaret Thatcher Miners' Strike Neo-1980s novel Politics retro Thatcherism The Line of Beauty

Democracy, Franco Moretti once declared, is not interested in the production of good novels (1987: 192). It is not self-evident that parliamentary politics should…

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Issue 2.4 - Special Issue "Thatcher's Legacies" Previous Issues

The Allure of the 1980s

Christopher Vardy July 21, 2013 1 Comment 1980s 1984-85 miners' strike Anthony Cartwright Cathi Unsworth contemporary British history contemporary fiction David Peace Denise Mina dystopia End of History Gordon Burn Irvine Welsh literature Nineteen Eighty Three nostalgia post-industrial landscapes retro-memory Rubik's cubes Skagboys Thatcherism Trainspotting trauma

When we remember, represent or consume the recent past, we often do so through the alluring prism of nostalgia. In Ali Smith’s short story ‘astute, fiery, luxurious’…

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