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Margaret Hilda Thatcher (nee Roberts), born in 1925, was the first woman to serve as prime minister of Great Britain, and its longest serving prime minister. Schooled in chemistry at Oxford, she was first elected to the House of Commons in 1959, advancing to ministerial posts and finally being elected leader of the Conservative Party in 1975. Nicknamed the "Iron Lady" for her uncompromising style in matters such as privatization of state industries and in the 1982 Falklands War, she led a rightward shift in British politics. Thatcher retired from politics in 1992. She is now Baroness Thatcher of Kesteven.

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CNN - Interview with Margaret Thatcher - June 30, 1997 Transcript of Bernard Shaw's 1997 interview with Lady Thatcher discussing Hong Kong and Western relations with China. www.cnn.com/WORLD/9706/30/thatcher.transcript

TIME 100 - Margaret Thatcher Biographical profile of Thatcher, from the series "Leaders and Revolutionaries" of the 20th century. www.time.com/time/time100/leaders/profile/thatcher.html

General Election 3 May 1979 - BBC Politics 97 Report on the watershed 1979 election. Includes streaming audio of speeches by Margaret Thatcher and Jim Callaghan. www.bbc.co.uk/politics97/background/pastelec/ge79.shtml

10 Downing Street PMs in History - Margaret Thatcher Biography of Thatcher from the UK Prime Minister's official site. www.number-10.gov.uk/default.asp?PageId=601

History Channel - Margaret Thatcher A biography covering 1925-1995 published for Women's History Month. www.historychannel.com/../womenhist/bios_html/thatche.html

On Principle: Margaret Thatcher and the Rebirth of Conservatism Article by Stephen Davies on Thatcher's role in the historical ideological divide, in the journal of the John M. Ashbrook Center for Public Affairs. www.ashbrook.org/publicat/onprin/v1n2/davies.html

Biography.com: Thatcher, Margaret Includes a short summary of her life and political achievements, as well as links to biographies of related figures. search.biography.com/print_record.pl?id=6729

National Review: Margaret Thatcher and the Revival of the West An article by U.S. President Ronald Reagan crediting Thatcher with inspiring and reinvigorating Western civilization. www.nationalreview.com/flashback/flashback-reagan060701.shtml

Booknotes: Margaret Thatcher Transcript of a C-SPAN interview of Lady Thatcher discussing her memoirs, entitled "The Downing Street Years." www.booknotes.org/Transcript/?ProgramID=1177

C-SPAN Booknotes: Chris Ogden A 1990 interview with the author of the biography "Maggie: An Intimate Portrait of a Woman in Power," discussing both the writing of the book and its subject. www.booknotes.org/Transcript/?ProgramID=1010

Margaret Thatcher, Britain's Prime Minister A fan site which offers fun facts, timeline and list of famosu deeds, and bibliography. members.tripod.com/elpage13/margaret.htm

Frontline: Interview with Margaret Thatcher An interview on the PBS talk show on the prosecution and outcome of the 1991 Persian Gulf War. www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/gulf/oral/thatcher/2.html

Margaret Thatcher Foundation Offers free access to the full texts of thousands of documents relating to the politics of the last quarter of a century www.margaretthatcher.org

Britannia.com: Margaret Thatcher Biographical timeline. www.britannia.com/gov/primes/prime56.html

MSN Learning & Research Plus: Thatcher, Margaret Hilda Online encyclopedia article. encarta.msn.com/encnet/refpages/RefArticle.aspx?refid=761576502

The Margaret Thatcher Site Offers a biography, studies, quotations, photos and multimedia, news and further resources. www.margaretthatcher.net