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Clement Richard Attlee, 1st Earl Attlee, KG, OM, CH, PC, FRS (3 January 1883 – 8 October 1967) was a British statesman and Labour Party politician who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1945 to 1951 and Leader of the Labour Party from 1935 to 1955.
May 25, 2024 · Clement Attlee, British Labour Party leader (1935–55) and prime minister (1945–51). He presided over the establishment of the welfare state in Great Britain and the granting of independence to India, the most important step in the conversion of the British Empire into the Commonwealth of Nations.
Mar 29, 2017 · LSE lecturer, First World War veteran and later Prime Minister of Britain, Clement Attlee’s achievements have often been overlooked. Professor John Bew, King’s College London, and Professor Michael Cox, LSE IDEAS, re-investigate the life and times of Clement Attlee.
Clement Attlee, 1950 © Attlee was the British Labour Party leader for 20 years, and presided over the 1945 - 1951 Labour government. This was the most significant reforming administration of...
Clement Attlee was leader of the Labour Party from 1935 to 1955, and served as Britain’s Prime Minister from 1945 to 1951.
Jun 13, 2017 · Clement Attlee, representing London’s East End in Parliament, was there through those early struggles, a witness to Labour’s near annihilation in 1931, when it was reduced to just fifty-two seats in Parliament, and a central figure in its slow recovery over the following decade.
Mar 11, 2014 · Clement Attlee bore little resemblance to the contemporary politician. He had no time for the things that are now the stock-in-trade of all serious aspirants for high office: image and public...
Clement Attlee, 1st Earl Attlee of Walthamstow, (born Jan. 3, 1883, Putney, London, Eng.—died Oct. 8, 1967, Westminster, London), British Labour Party leader (1935–55) and prime minister (1945–51).
Clement Attlee was the leader who did the most to shape Britain after the Second World War. During his premiership the National Health Service was created. His government also legislated for the modern system of National Insurance, the National Parks system, and the New Towns Act.
May 6, 2021 · Labour’s postwar leader Clement Attlee presided over the most consequential raft of legislation in modern British history. Charlotte Lydia Riley provides a brief history of his life and legacy. Published: May 6, 2021 at 2:48 PM.
