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Robert Pearce examines the Labour government of 1945-51. He looks at the main political personalities of the period, sets their work in the context of Labour history since 1900, and examines their domestic and foreign achievements.
In the 1930s Britain experienced an economic crisis, with high unemployment, wage cuts, benefit cuts and a deterioration in living standards. It was a decade noted for its austerity. Yet... Læs mere
Clement Attlee was the Labour leader from 1935 to 1955, and Prime Minister of the first majority Labour governments in the postwar years from 1945 to 1951. This study examines the man behind the stern exterior, finding ambition and indecision, and a moral vision.