Clement Attlee
Clement Richard Attlee, 1st Earl Attlee, KG, OM, CH, PC, FRS (1883 - 1967) was a British politician who served as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1945 to 1951, and as the Leader of the Labour Party from 1935 to 1955.
Attlee was the first person ever to hold the office of Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, serving under Winston Churchill in the wartime coalition government, before going on to lead the Labour Party to a landslide election victory in 1945 and a narrow victory in 1950. He became the first Labour Prime Minister ever to serve a full five year term, as well as the first to command a Labour majority in Parliament, and remains to date the longest ever serving Leader of the Labour party.
Attlee was the first person ever to hold the office of Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, serving under Winston Churchill in the wartime coalition government, before going on to lead the Labour Party to a landslide election victory in 1945 and a narrow victory in 1950. He became the first Labour Prime Minister ever to serve a full five year term, as well as the first to command a Labour majority in Parliament, and remains to date the longest ever serving Leader of the Labour party.
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The King's Speech
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2010
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Churchill: A Biography
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2001
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Ill Fares the Land
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2010
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A History of Modern Britain
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2007
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Remnants of a Separation: A History of the Partition through Material Memory
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2018
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Citizen Clem: A Biography of Attlee
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2016
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Lords of the Desert: Britain's Struggle with America to Dominate the Middle East
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2018
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Austerity Britain, 1945-51
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2007
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One Palestine, Complete: Jews and Arabs Under the British Mandate
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1999
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Potsdam: The End of World War II and the Remaking of Europe
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2015
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