Margaret Thatcher and members of John Major's cabinet, including John Selwyn Gummer
Margaret Thatcher and members of John Major's cabinet, including John Selwyn Gummer
by Ian Waldie, for Reuters
digital colour print, 12 October 1994
15 1/8 in. x 24 in. (385 mm x 609 mm)
Given by Reuters, 2003
Photographs Collection
NPG x126072
Sittersback to top
- John Selwyn Gummer (1939-), Politician; Chairman of the Conservative Party. Sitter in 2 portraits. Identify
- Margaret Hilda Thatcher (née Roberts), Baroness Thatcher of Kesteven (1925-2013), Prime Minister. Sitter in 54 portraits. Identify
Artistsback to top
- Reuters, Photographers. Artist or producer associated with 6 portraits.
- Ian Waldie, Photographer. Artist or producer associated with 1 portrait.
Events of 1994back to top
Current affairs
The Queen opens the Channel Tunnel. After seven years of digging, various financial hold-ups and technical difficulties, a long-awaited rail link is created between Britain and France. The tunnel is 31 miles long with 24 miles under the sea, the longest under-sea tunnel in the world.Art and science
Trevor Bayliss starts production of his clockwork radio. The innovation is a fantastic example of simple environmentally friendly design and has been found particularly useful in areas where there is no electricity supply, such as remote communities in Africa.Blur release their classic Britpop album depicting London life, Parklife.
International
Violence breaks out in Rwanda. An estimated 800,000 people were massacred in the Rwandan Genocide, most of them Tutsis, murdered by extremist Hutu militia groups.South Africa holds its first democratic elections in which full enfranchisement is granted. The African National Congress led by Nelson Mandela won the majority of the vote, and Mandela became the country's first black State President.
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great-british
09 April 2018, 20:19
John Selwyn Gummer is the figure to Thatcher's left, our right.