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Clem Attlee
Labour's Great Reformer
Francis Beckett
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Labour's Great Reformer
Francis Beckett
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As British prime minister from 1945 to 1951, Clement Attlee built a legacy that includes today's famous—and controversial—National Health Service, yet he is often remembered as a rather dull political figure. Rejecting Winston Churchill's jibe that Attlee was a "modest little man with plenty to be modest about, " this biography makes the case that his reputation as Britain's greatest reforming prime minister is fully deserved.Building on his earlier work on Attlee and including new research and stories, many of which are published here for the first time, Francis Beckett highlights Attlee's relevance for a new generation. A poet and dreamer, Attlee led a remarkable political life that saw, among other challenges, the beginning of the Cold War. Ultimately, this perceptive biography demonstrates that Attlee's ideas have never been more relevant.
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Chapter 1
1. Mearns, Reverend Andrew, The Bitter Cry of Outcast London: An Inquiry into the Condition of the Abject Poor (Clarke, London, 1883). Available online at: https://archive.org/details/
2. Attlee, Clement, As It Happened (Heinemann, London, 1954).
3. Attlee, Peggy, With Quiet Conscience: Thomas Simons Attlee, 1880–
1960 (Dove and Chough Press, London, 1995).
4. Attlee, Peggy, With Quiet Conscience.
5. Attlee, Clement, As It Happened.
6. Attlee, Peggy, With Quiet Conscience.
7. Attlee, Clement, As It Happened.
8. Unpublished autobiographical notes housed in The Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
9. Attlee, Clement, As It Happened.
10. Attlee, Clement. ‘The Pleasure of Books’, Attlee’s Great Contemporaries: The Politics of Character, ed. Frank Field (Bloomsbury, London, 2009).
11. Attlee, Peggy, With Quiet Conscience.
12. Haileybury Official History housed in Haileybury School archives.
13. Haileybury Official History housed in Haileybury School archives.
14. Attlee, Clement, As It Happened.
15. Unpublished autobiographical notes housed in The Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
16. Unpublished autobiographical notes housed in The Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
17. Thompson, Paul, The Edwardians (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London, 1975).
18. Jenkins, Roy, Mr Attlee: An Interim Biography (Heinemann, London, 1948).
19. Attlee, Clement, As It Happened.
20. Thompson, Paul, The Edwardians
21. Ibid.
22. Ibid.
23. Attlee, Clement, The Social Worker (George Bell and Sons, London, 1920).
24. Harris, Kenneth, Attlee (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London, 1995).
25. Dear, John, Peace Behind Bars: A Peacemaking Priest’s Journal from Jail (Rowman & Littlefield, Washington DC, 1995).
26. Unpublished autobiographical notes housed in The Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
27. Attlee, Clement, As It Happened.
28. Attlee, Clement, As It Happened.
29. Clem Attlee’s poems housed in Countess Attlee’s collection.
Chapter 2
1. Attlee, Clement, As It Happened (Heinemann, London, 1954).
2. Hattersley, Roy, Campbell-Bannerman (Haus Publishing, London, 2006).
3. Jenkins, Roy, Mr Attlee: An Interim Biography (Heinemann, London, 1948).
4. Harris, Kenneth, Attlee (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London, 1995).
5. Hattersley, Roy, Campbell-Bannerman.
6. Harris, Kenneth, Attlee.
7. Dalton, Hugh, Call Back Yesterday: Memoirs,1887–1931 (Frederick Muller, London, 1953).
8. Attlee, Clement, As It Happened.
9. Attlee, Clement, As It Happened.
10. Attlee, Clement, As It Happened.
11. Document headed ‘Written on Walney Island, Barrow, 1918’ housed in The Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
12. Ibid.
13. Barrett, Michèle, Casualty Figures: How Five Men Survived the First World War (Verso, London, 2007).
14. Attlee, Peggy, With Quiet Conscience: Thomas Simons Attlee, 1880...