CHRISTOPHER COLLINS is director of the Margaret Thatcher Foundation and editor of its vast archive website: www.margaretthatcher.org. His background is that of an academic historian. He was a lecturer in politics at Lincoln College, Oxford, then assisted Margaret Thatcher in the writing of her memoirs 1992–95 before becoming editor of her 14 million words of public statements, published by Oxford University Press in 1998. He is married and lives in Edinburgh.