Britain's first woman prime minister, friend of Ronald Reagan and the longest serving head of government in the 20th century (1979-90), but also the only one to be removed from office in peacetime by pressure from within her own party

Dr Clare Beckett teaches social policy at Bradford University, where she also conducts research on sexuality and identity and on social policy and communities. She has written several academic studies in these areas, as well as a short life of Aneurin Bevan (2004) and Race, Gender and Sexuality: The Oppression of Multiculturalism (2001).