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Margaret Thatcher touring a doll factory in Glasgow during the 1987 election campaign. Thatcher went on to win her third consecutive term in office, cementing her victory over the National Union of Mineworkers two years earlier.

Police watch a building crumble to cinders in Brixton, 1985. After Brixton police mistakenly shot Cherry Groce, the mother of a man for whom they were searching, a second round of race riots erupted, fueled largely by the continued harassment of blacks and failure of the government to address the social grievances that caused the 1981 riot.

Police horses were used extensively during the miners’ strike to corral and break mass pickets. Scenes like this one in Brodsworth near Doncaster in the fall of 1984 looked more like medieval battles than contemporary political skirmishes.

A young boy playing near the busted-out window of a council estate in Manchester. Over the course of Thatcher’s time in office, the contrast in living conditions between the increasingly wealthy upper and middle classes and the inner-city poor grew starker and starker year by year. (PS: Check out the Burberry.)

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