Wm. Roger Louis reviews “Clement Attlee: The Man Who Made Modern Britain” by John Bew. ... When asked whether he would like to comment on the political campaign in 1945, ...

In a political age devoid of decency and talent, the lessons we can learn from Clement Attlee. In his Attlee Foundation lecture delivered at Queen Mary University of London, Jon Davis explores the ...

John Bew’s new account serves up an altogether more compelling story of Attlee—the wartime deputy prime minister inspired by John Milton; the political lion who bested Winston Churchill in the Chamber ...

Professor Sir David Cannadine explores political fame and image by looking at how an object or prop can come to define a political leader. In this episode - Clement Attlee's family car.

In a stunning upset while World War II was still raging in Asia, the British people replaced the Conservative Winston Churchill with a man as unlike him as possible, the Socialist Clement Attlee.

When Clement Attlee was once asked how he had felt on first entering 10 Downing Street, his reply was characteristically terse and modest. “There were jobs to be done,” he said. There were ...

Jeremy Corbyn prefers the collective approach to leadership also favoured by Clement Attlee The idea that just one person should be entitled to determine the policy of his or her political party ...

Prime Minister Clement Attlee announced a fund-raising drive to erect a statue of Franklin D. Roosevelt opposite the American embassy in London. By The International Herald Tribune From the Herald ...

Clement Attlee and his wife Violet wave to crowds in London on 26 July 1945 – the day he became prime minister (Getty) My great stroke of professional fortune came in my final undergraduate year ...

Jeremy Corbyn's leadership style is closer to Clement Attlee than Tony Blair, but times are very different, says Prof Archie Brown.