{"id":4657,"date":"2013-04-23T15:45:29","date_gmt":"2013-04-23T14:45:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www2.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/?p=4657"},"modified":"2022-07-01T11:30:07","modified_gmt":"2022-07-01T10:30:07","slug":"margaret-thatcher-at-imperial-college-1985","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/margaret-thatcher-at-imperial-college-1985\/","title":{"rendered":"Margaret Thatcher at Imperial College: 1985"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www2.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/files\/2010\/01\/thatcher.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"192\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignright wp-image-580 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/files\/2010\/01\/thatcher-192x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a previous entry you would have seen the video I made to celebrate the City and Guilds College Centenary in February 1985. As part of the week of events an exhibition was run entitled &#8220;Technology 2000&#8221;. It was opened by Margaret Thatcher -who was then Prime Minister- on 27 February 1985.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Bruce Sayers was then Dean of City and Guilds and made the introduction. This version of the speech is the full version. The one already seen in the C&amp;G centenary video is edited down to fit into a specific duration. Here then is the full, unedited version, from the original 1985 master tape.<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/B2f5VCWPMbw?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-GB&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<p>Here is the link to the <a title=\"City and Guilds Centenary Week 1985\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=gehbN70FV1A&amp;feature=share&amp;list=EC53C19799235AF2DA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">City and Guilds Celebration video on YouTube<\/a>. Included in that video is the tour Mrs Thatcher took of the exhibition Technology 2000 and shows some of the people she met.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Colin Grimshaw April 2013<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a previous entry you would have seen the video I made to celebrate the City and Guilds College Centenary in February 1985. As part of the week of events an exhibition was run entitled &#8220;Technology 2000&#8221;. It was opened by Margaret Thatcher -who was then Prime Minister- on 27 February 1985. Professor Bruce Sayers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,18461,53,80,390],"tags":[603,18469,3929,159,18467],"class_list":["post-4657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campus","category-college-history","category-events","category-people","category-technology","tag-administration","tag-centenary","tag-city-and-guilds","tag-faculties","tag-tv-studio"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Margaret Thatcher at Imperial College: 1985 - Imperial College Video Archive Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/margaret-thatcher-at-imperial-college-1985\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Margaret Thatcher at Imperial College: 1985 - Imperial College Video Archive Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"In a previous entry you would have seen the video I made to celebrate the City and Guilds College Centenary in February 1985. 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