Titlebook: Responding to Margaret Thatcher‘s Death; Louisa Hadley Book 2014 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2014 Marga

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,Political Responses to Thatcher’s Death,res — David Cameron, Ed Miliband and Glenda Jackson — and draws out the similarities and differences between responses from either side of the political divide. In particular, it examines how these responses elide the controversial aspects of Thatcher’s political legacy by focusing on her personal a

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Obituaries of Margaret Thatcher,alysis shows, Thatcher’s political career is mediated through the personal narrative of Thatcher as an outsider. From these official responses, Hadley turns to examine more subjective responses in the opinion pieces written by Russell Brand, Giles Coren, Sathnam Sanghera and Janice Turner — all of w

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,“A Proper Send-Off” for Thatcher,ion between the private, intimate aspects of the funeral and the public elements of it, arguing that it became a national pageant that was less about Thatcher — the woman or the politician — and more about a display of nationalism. From this official display of respectful mourning, the chapter turns

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Conclusion,e wake of Thatcher’s death, more recent reports seem to focus on the political — in terms of both Thatcher’s actions while Prime Minister and her legacy in contemporary politics. Hadley argues that this is in part the result of the release of previously sealed documents from Thatcher’s time in offic

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e 1980s and since her resignation. The responses examined include the anticipation of Thatcher‘s death in anti-Thatcher songs, social media responses, obituaries, picture tributes and the ceremonial funeral.978-1-137-42825-7

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,Anticipating Thatcher’s Death,taphor for her removal from power. Charges that these songs are disrespectful and ineffective political protests are assessed. The chapter closes with the campaign to get “Ding Dong the Witch is Dead!” to number one in the charts following Thatcher’s death, again connecting it to issues of respect and effective political protest.

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,Social Media Responses to Thatcher’s Death, person of Thatcher and issues gender and nationalism. This chapter also considers the youth response to Thatcher’s death which was often de-legitimised in the official public discourse suggesting that many responses used Thatcher’s death as a way to comment on the current political situation.