The domestic policies of the Margaret Thatcher’s governments in english language sources and literature

The article systematizes and analyzes the main groups of historical sources and scientific andnon-fiction literature on the theoretical and practical principles of neoconservatism, its Britishmodel «Thatcherism» during 1979–1990; Margaret Thatcher’s methods, tools and results inimplementing social and economic policies and further prospects for research. Various types ofhistoriographical sources and literature of English origin were used: memoirs, interviews andspeeches, party and program documents, collective and individual monographs, profile articlesand intelligence, press information, Internet resources, etcetra have been used. By synthesizinghistorical, comparative sociological and problem-chronological methods for the first time in thedomestic historiography attempts have been made to comprehensively analyze historical sourcesand scientific works on economic and social policy headed by M. Thatcher of neoconservativegovernments. Found out on the basis social science studies of social scientists, economic, politicaland ideological factors that caused the turnaround of the British Conservative Party on socialissues in the 80’s the years of the twentieth century; outlined and traced the problems encounteredin the context of reforming the British economy. It is determined that among gaps that need furtherscientific reflection are this legislative support of the social and economic policies of Tetcher’sgovernment and clarification of the categorical and conceptual apparatus in the field of socialpolicy. For the first time in national historiography, a comprehensive generalization and systematicdata of English sources and literature on internal the policies of the M. Thatcher governments.The opportunity to go deeper understanding the features of internal political and socio-economicprocesses that took place in the UK in 1979–1990, their degree reflection in English-languagesources and research; expansion of information and reference base for scientific writing works.