ABSTRACT
While the Koeppler bequest wound its way through the law courts, work at Wilton Park continued as usual-in two senses. In Sussex, within the walls and grounds of Wiston House, it remained intensive and tightly packed, though outward-looking and wide-ranging. Some fifty miles to the north, in Whitehall and Westminster, Wilton Park’s future still hung in the balance, with renewed threats of budgetary cuts or worse. A new Government had come to power in May 1979. It was headed by Margaret Thatcher.
