The Iron Lady

Renwick, Robin

Reynolds, David

Rhodesia (see Zimbabwe)

Richardson, Gordon

Ridley, Adam

Ridley, Nicholas; as Environment Secretary

Rifkind, Malcolm

Right Approach,The

riots

Roberts, Alfred (MT’s father); influence on MT

Roberts, Beatrice (MT’s mother)

Rodgers, William

Rolls-Royce

Rook, Jean

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Rothschild, N.M.

Rothschild, Victor

Royal Mail

Royal Society

Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC)

Runcie, Robert

Russia

Ryder, Richard

S

Saatchi and Saatchi

Saddam Hussein

Sakharov, Andrei

Sakharov, Eleena

Sands, Bobby

Saudi Arabia

Scargill, Arthur

Schmidt, Helmut

Schwarzkopf, Gen, Norman

Scott Inquiry

Scottish National Party (SNP)

Scowcroft, Brent

Sergeant, John

Seitz, Raymond

Seldon, Arthur

Shamir, Yitzhak

Sherman, Alfred

Short, Edward

Shultz, George

Sinn Fein

Skinner, Denis

Sky TV

Sleaford Gazette

Smith, Adam

Smith, Geoffrey

Smith, Ian

Soames, Christopher

Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP)

Social Democratic Party (SDP)

social policy

Social Trends

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

Somerville College, Oxford

South Africa

South Georgia

Sowetan

Spycatcher

Stalin, Josef

Steel, David

steel strike (1980)

Stephenson, Daniel (MT’s grandfather)

Stephenson, Phoebe (MT’s grandmother)

Stepping Stones

sterling exchange rate

Stevas, Norman St John

Stoppard, Miriam

Stowe, Kenneth

Strachey, John

Strategic Defence Initiative (SDI)

Strauss, Norman

strikes

Suharto, General

Sun

Sunday Express

Sunday Mirror

Sunday Telegraph

Sunday Times

Sutch, ‘Lord’ David

T

Tambo, Oliver

taxation

Tebbit, Margaret

Tebbit, Norman; as Employment Secretary; as Conservative party chairman

Thatcher, Carol (MT’s daughter)

Thatcher, Denis (MT’s husband)… ; influence on MT; death

Thatcher, Diane (daughter-in-law)

Thatcher, Margaret (nee Roberts): Early life: parents and childhood; influence of