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Thatcher cartoon (June 1975)
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Thatcher cartoon (June 1975)

One week before the national referendum on 5 June 1975 Edwina Sandys, the grand-daughter of Sir Winston Churchill, puts on an exhibition in Chelsea portraying United Kingdom celebrities tackling the issue of Britain's place within the common market. This picture entitled ‘Ich lerne Deutsch' shows Margaret Thatcher learning German in the bath, a bathmat with Edward Heath's face on it close by.

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Title Thatcher cartoon (June 1975)
Document type Cartoon
Source Le marché commun vu par la petite fille de Churchill. Keystone, 1975. Black and White.
Keywords accession to the Community, referendum, United Kingdom
Copyright © Keystone.
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Caption One week before the national referendum on 5 June 1975 Edwina Sandys, the grand-daughter of Sir Winston Churchill, puts on an exhibition in Chelsea portraying United Kingdom celebrities tackling the issue of Britain's place within the common market. This picture entitled ‘Ich lerne Deutsch' shows Margaret Thatcher learning German in the bath, a bathmat with Edward Heath's face on it close by.
Location in the digital library HISTORICAL EVENTS >> 1969–1979 Crises and revival >> The first enlargement >> Negotiations with the United Kingdom >> The British request for renegotiation
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See also Statement by Labour’s National Executive Committee on the referendum on the United Kingdom’s accession to the European Communities (26 March 1975)
Leaflet from the Young European Left in the United Kingdom (Spring 1975)
Yes to Europe: The Conservative Guide for the 1975 Referendum Campaign
Harold Wilson, Final Term
Pamphlet on the referendum published by the Labour Research Department (1975)
The front page of the British daily newspaper Daily Mail (7 June 1975)
'Britain has never been able to opt out of Europe, and this has never been truer' from The Guardian (9 May 1975)
Statement by Harold Wilson (London, 9 June 1975)
Parliamentary debates in the House of Commons (23 January 1975)
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