John Bew has been awarded the 2017 Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography for his book Citizen Clem: A Biography of Attlee (riverrun/Quercus). Bew won the £5,000 prize for his book, which ...

Clement Attlee was one of the most successful leaders in modern Britain yet was habitually shy, laconic and self-deprecating. He believed in basic honesty and accountability. When asked whether he ...

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, when ...

Attlee turned in a stellar performance as Churchill’s wartime deputy. To begin with, he got along with Churchill, no mean feat. Many in the Labour Party felt that he was too deferential to the prime ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Clement Attlee leaving No 10 Downing Street in 1949. ‘Attlee’s greatest quality wasn’t succinctness – it was integrity.’Photograph ...

A new play documenting the fascinating time in post-war history when Government changed in power from Conservative Prime Minister Winston Churchill to Labour's Clement Attlee, comes to Liverpool's ...