In both of Attlee’s longest-lasting legacies, the creation of the modern British welfare state and NATO, Bew shows how Attlee’s profound anti-communism was central to his beliefs. The former was ...

On the first anniversary of Keir Starmer’s general election win, there will no doubt be much comment about what his government has achieved in its first year – and, more likely, where it has fallen ...

Both elections resulted in the election of resolute and determined prime ministers with radical agendas: Clement Attlee and Margaret Thatcher. Just as Mrs Thatcher transformed the nature of British ...

Puffing on a pipe in his book-lined living room in Cherry Cottage, Buckinghamshire, Clement Attlee, old soldier (a major in World War I) and mild-seeming architect of Britain’s 1945 Labor revolution, ...

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 permitted, a trim ...