#Thatcher: Ten Children Dead

From Margaret Thatcher became Prime Minister on the 4th May 1979 until her resignation on the 28h November 1990, ten children aged sixteen or under were killed by the security forces (the number is actually eleven as Hugh Maguire should be included in this list, see below). For anyone who wishes to evaluate or find the positive in a re-evaluation of her premiership, it is hard to ignore the recurrent moral failure to adequately protect children over whom she claimed the …

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CAIN archive: “I presume that it is not contemplated that External Affairs might suggest”

So, great news for pol and history anoraks… Cain have got hold of some fascinating fragments of history from the national archive in Dublin and put them online… You can browse it all from the home page here. And the way Cain have structured it you can dive in by year. The early stuff (mid 60s) is wonderfully laconic. I love the way too that senior civil servants address each other by their surnames. And the scribbled writing in the …

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