Grantham

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Next week, we are going to be in Grantham in Lincolnshire.

The week after that, we will be in Gloucestershire.

But from here in Ulster in Warwickshire, it just leaves me to say thank you so much to our panel.

The King's School.

Between the ages of zwölf and siebzehn, he attended the King's School in Grantham.

There, he studied Latin and Greek.

Although his mother briefly tried to turn him into a farmer, he disliked the occupation.

From 1978 to 1988, his image appeared on the British £1 banknote.

The note showed him with a map of the solar system.

Several statues have been erected in his honor, including one at the British Library in London and another in his hometown of Grantham.

His birthplace at Woolsthorpe Manor is preserved as a historic site.

Yeah.

It works, I think, because it's in Grantham, it's in Lincolnshire, and there's a lot of farms around here.

There's a lot of poultry businesses that are operating in this area, and so you do get a good number of people come

along.

As a rule, British units stay in their camps until D-Day, then move by road to the airfields, though there is at least one sanctioned exception.

On the morning of Friday, September 15th, 1944, The 2nd Parachute Battalion is shuttled in sealed trucks under military police escort to a cinema in Grantham for a special screening of the 1941 comedy Hell's a Poppin', starring the American comedians Chick Johnson and Ole Olsen.

Private James Sims considers it the funniest film he has ever seen.

American practice differs.

The journeys vary.

The 1st Parachute Battalion travels some 24 kilometres from Grimsthorpe to the 61st Troop Carrier Group's base at Barkston Heath.

The 2nd and 3rd Parachute Battalions at Grantham and Spalding lie about 13 and 48 kilometres from the 314th Troop Carrier Group's field at Saltby.

Most of the 1st Air Landing Brigade appears to move from Woodhall Spa in Lincolnshire to temporary billets nearer the Western Tug airfields.

So if we want to understand how Margaret Thatcher's inner theater drove her unique brand of System 1 intuition, we have to figure out who wrote the script.

We have to look at the town of Grantham between 1925 and 1947.

We do.

Her upbringing in Grantham is the foundation of literally everything that follows.

According to Charles Moore's biography, her father, Alfred Roberts, was the primary coach in her life.

Right.

She couldn't tolerate the anxiety of questioning her foundational beliefs.

Her System 1 was locked down tight.

Today we're unpacking how Margaret Thatcher rewired Britain's economy, reshaped its society, and sparked the controversies that still echo in our politics.

When you think about the most transformative prime minister in late twentieth century Britain, it is hard not to picture a woman who rose from humble beginnings in Grantham and ended up steering a nation through a seismic economic shift.

She grew up in a working class family where the idea of a state running all the services was a thing of the past.

She would later become the architect of an economy that no longer depended on such state provision.

Today we examine how Margaret Thatcher reshaped Britain's economy, politics and international standing.

Think about the first girl in Grantham whose family ran a tiny grocery shop and you start to see the roots of someone who would one day claim power over an entire nation.

She grew up on modest means, her father was a local businessman, and that early sense that hard work could carve a path into public life stuck with her for decades.

Then there's the leap to Somerville College at Oxford, chemistry undergraduates, who weren't usually the first to walk into Westminster, yet Margaret was.

Kyme the goodly house and park is a three miles from Sleaford.

Grantham from Stanford to Grantham, all in Keston, and by meetly good plenty of wood eighteen miles from Stanford to Beechfield.

A mean thoroughfare twelve mile much plain ground, saving in the parts about Beechfield South from Beechfield to Ancaster, a poor thoroughfare, all by plain and much heathy ground from Ancaster to Lincoln, sixteen miles all by like plain grounds in Keston.

Here mark that all this heath or plain from Beechfield to Lincoln beareth the name of Ancaster from Bourne in Keston to go through by Holland to Boston, twenty miles all by low ground and much marsh and no wood in manor.

Sir Thomas Hennage hath done much cost there, in translating and new building, with brick and abbey stone.

Sandon dwelleth at Ashby, half a mile from Spilesby.

Porter by Grantham.

Harrington beside Ancaster.

So let's break him down, Almanac style.

Henry Moore was born in Grantham in Lincolnshire, England in October of 1614, placing him in the age of King James.

He was born to parents that he called great Calvinists, but with all very pious and good ones.

He went on to claim that even in my earliest childhood, an inward sense of the divine presence was so strong upon my mind that I did then believe there could be no deed, word, or thought hidden from him.