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The quiet crowd that made Margaret Thatcher

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The quiet crowd that made Margaret Thatcher

Our visions of crowds in politics are of street marches or masses of people protesting in city streets confronting police or army tanks. Australian historian, Christine Wallace has a different view.

In recent research , Wallace looks at the career of British PM , Margaret Thatcher. The crowd that made the Thatcher revolution was quite different, 'They waited quietly in their homes, read the papers and watched television, and when their champion emerged they picked up a pen and wrote a letter'

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