Lois Keith obituary
Writer, teacher and disability rights campaigner who challenged the barriers facing disabled women
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Writer, teacher and disability rights campaigner who challenged the barriers facing disabled women
This deftly constructed account of the IRA’s 1984 attempt to kill the prime minister leaves us with one insistent question: what would have happened if they had succeeded?
In this extract from his new book, Killing Thatcher: The IRA, the Manhunt and the Long War on the Crown, Rory Carroll recounts the moment the bomb went off, the devastation it caused and the prime minister’s immediate reaction
Margaret Thatcher only narrowly escaped the IRA bomb explosion in Brighton's Grand Hotel in 1984, which caused extensive damage and two deaths.
Patrick Magee (pictured), one of the IRA's most notorious operatives, planted a bomb behind a bath panel and primed it to explode on the last day of the Conservative Party Conference in 1984.