Margaret Thatcher's time as prime minister might not seem like the most obvious inspiration for an opera, but for some she is a diva. The Rest is History podcast co-host and historian Dominic ...

Dominic Sandbrook, the prominent historian, turns his hand to the stage as librettist for ‘Mrs T’ Margaret Thatcher’s years in power are to be turned into an opera. The Iron Lady’s 11 ...

A portrait of Margaret Thatcher by the Scottish artist Anne Mackintosh has sold for £42,000 at auction. The oil canvas from the late Prime Minister’s personal collection was her favourite ...

A sale of items belonging to Margaret Thatcher reveals her sense of humour, the auctioneer has said. The former Conservative prime minister collected satirical cartoons by newspaper artists about ...

How do you solve a problem like Margaret Thatcher? Tom Gatti is joined by TV producer and editor Rob Burley, and the New Statesman’s TV critic Rachel Cooke. In 1989, following the shock resignation of ...

This will be his first foray into the world of opera and the combination of the complex politics of Thatcher’s inner circle and Sandbrook’s expertise will likely make a fascinating and entertaining ...

The then-prime minister, Margaret Thatcher, held a friendly meeting with a leading member of the junta in Downing Street in 1980 while Britain’s ambassador in Argentina regarded the promotion of ...

Following her death in 2013, the first Thatcher sale was staged by Christie’s two years later when bidders piled in from 41 different countries on five continents to compete for 165 lots which ...

The crisis became a defining moment of Margaret Thatcher's premiership, and changed her image and her political fortunes. Until then, April 2, 1982, opinion polls showed her to be the most ...

Billie Eilish performed her hit song “Birds of a Feather” at the Grammys and got Taylor Swift and Margaret Qualley standing up to dance together in the audience. Eilish was flanked by a ...

Andrea Jenkyns, the former Conservative MP, is wearing woollen protective equipment so thick that if she’s splashed by the liquid iron running at 1,500 degrees Celsius in the blast furnace, it ...