![]() |
COOKIES: By using this website you agree that we can place Google Analytics Cookies on your device for performance monitoring. | ![]() |
University of Cambridge > Talks.cam > Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science > Thatcher, scientist
![]() Thatcher, scientistAdd to your list(s) Download to your calendar using vCal
If you have a question about this talk, please contact Lauren Kassell. Did it matter that Margaret Thatcher, three times British prime minister, staunch opponent of socialism, fervid proponent of markets rather than governments as the agents of choice and change, had trained and worked as a research scientist? In the immense literature on Thatcher and Thatcherism, no author emphasizes, or even discusses in any depth, the connection between Thatcher, scientist, and Thatcher, politician. This paper reviews the evidence for a connection, and offers an interpretation of an important episode in the formation of British science policy that, I argue, has broad repercussions for how historians might revise the understandings of a saltation in twentieth-century political and economic history. This talk is part of the Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science series. This talk is included in these lists:
Note that ex-directory lists are not shown. |
Other listsAMOP/TCM Seminar The LMS Hardy Lecture German Society Speaker EventsOther talksUncertainty Quantification of geochemical and mechanical compaction in layered sedimentary basins Women's Staff Network: Career Conversations The genetics of depression Grammar Variational Autoencoder Migration in Science Wetting and elasticity: 2 experimental illustrations |