1943: Canadian troops arrive in North Africa. 1945: The Allies land on the west coast of Burma, conquering Akyab. On the same day, British prime minister Winston Churchill visits France. 1946: Nazi ...
Thanks to our parliamentary system, the process of passing laws in Britain can be either a sea of tranquility or a riot of ...
Australian Prime Minister Ben Chifley (L), British Prime Minister Clement Attlee (second L) and Australian Foreign Minister H. V. Evatt (R) at 10 Downing Street in London, 1946 (Central Press/Hulton ...
Someone once said of him: “An empty taxi cab pulled up and out stepped Clement Attlee.” But it didn’t stop Attlee from going down in history as one of the greats, by setting up the NHS.
The year began with an ITV drama, Mr Bates vs The Post Office, which shoved the story of Britain’s biggest ever miscarriage ...
At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters on the ... “I reject it utterly. “(Clement) Attlee did not choose between allies. (Winston) Churchill did not choose.
The Prime Minister will be relaxed about that: he has long encouraged comparisons with that other famously dull but radical Labour leader and PM, Clement Attlee, about whom Winston Churchill never ...
The popular poem, actually titled “A Visit From St. Nicholas,” first appeared in The Times’s pages in 1896. “In thousands of ...
He vowed that Labour would not go “back to business as usual” and said it was time for a reset equivalent to the post-war government of Clement Attlee: “I believe there’s a mood in the air ...
2nd August 1936: British politician Clement Attlee speaking at the Cardiff and District United Peace Demonstration in Cathays Park, Cardiff. (Photo by Richards/Fox Photos/Getty Images) Here’s a ...