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Britain’s heir-to-the-throne Prince Charles and Prince William took center stage at the opening of parliament on Tuesday, replacing the 96-year-old Queen Elizabeth who missed the grand set-piece ...
The last general election held in July saw a Labour landslide in which Clement Attlee swept to power to oust Winston Churchill after the end of Second World War hostilities in Europe. The 1945 ...
In his Attlee Foundation lecture delivered at Queen Mary University of London, Jon Davis explores the ambiguous reputation of Britain’s first post-war prime minister and pays tribute to his own ...
A recent biography of the postwar Labour Prime Minister presents a figure fully as admirable—and, in some significant ways, more so—as Churchill.
After Labour’s first year, Starmer could still learn from ‘one-term Attlee’ - COMMENT: The current prime minister would be wise to study Clement Attlee’s post-war premiership, which also ...
The traditional hush of No. 10 Downing Street was broken last week by the sound of a precedent being shattered. Clement Attlee got himself a press secretary.The Prime Minister's new Steve Early is ...
CLEMENT ATTLEE: THE MAN WHO MADE MODERN BRITAIN By John Bew Oxford University Press, $39.95, 670 pages, illustrated ...
Like many another middle-class British family back in the '30s, Mr. & Mrs. Clement Attlee liked to spend their weekends getting away from it all in the family car. When Clem's duties ...
King Charles has reportedly extended an olive branch to his scandal-scarred younger brother, Prince Andrew, by inviting him to his big Christmas get-together next month.
Loaded down with strong opinions after his fleeting (18-day) guided tour of Communist China, ex-Prime Minister Clement Attlee came back home last week and promptly let the strongest of them fall ...
Clement Attlee, postwar prime minister of Britain, took in a Jewish child fleeing the Nazis Attlee sponsored a Jewish mother and her two children to leave Germany and come to Britain in 1939.