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Cabinet Government in Australia

Book by S. Encel; Melbourne University Press, 1962

Subjects:

Australia--Politics And Government, Cabinet System--Australia

Collections: Entire Library

...ministries. Now that Labour governments are an accepted part of the...the function of the British government is to govern. The working...reflects the belief that governments can be trusted with power...when he declared that no government should truckle to the multitude...leaders of the Labour Party, Attlee and Greenwood, sought the...
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Mackintosh's the Government and Politics of Britain

Book by Peter G. Richards; Unwin Hyman, 1988

Subjects:

Great Britain--Politics And Government--1945-

Collections: History, Entire Library

...July 1966 began to make the Labour Government unpopular. But, unlike the last years of the Attlee Government, the Conservatives developed no critique of the form or extent of government. Rather, they called for tax reductions...
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Patronage in British Government

Book by Peter G. Richards; University of Toronto Press, 1963

Subjects:

Great Britain--Politics And Government--1945-, Patronage, Political--Great Britain

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...but in 1951 the Churchill Government chose MR W. S. Morrison...Conservative and Coalition governments prior to 1945. This was...it was understood that the Government were willing to nominate...and a Law Officer in the Attlee Government; but Sir Frank declined...
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A Tragedy of Errors: The Government and Misgovernment of Northern Ireland

Book by Kenneth Bloomfield; University of Liverpool Press, 2007

Subjects:

Northern Ireland--Politics And Government

Collections: History, Entire Library

...winner-takes-all executive Government, nationalism was not merely...shop-window. Unionist Governments had done little to question...Westminster the Stormont Government - often starved of resources...services introduced by the Attlee Government. When faced with the choice...
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Cabinet Government

Book by Ivor Jennings; Cambridge University Press, 1951

Subjects:

Cabinet System, Great Britain--Politics And Government

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...274 -82; War Cabinets, 1939-45, 287 -91; Attlee Government, 291 -3; Defence organisation and, 291 -3; economic...King, 325 -41; examples of, 496 - 508 ; and see GOVERNMENT CAMPBELL-BANNERMAN, Sir Henry Prime Minister...

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Journal Articles on: attlee government

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"A Very Present Menace"? Attlee, Communism and the Cold War(1)

Journal article by Phillip Deery; The Australian Journal of Politics and History, Vol. 44, 1998

Subjects:

Attlee, Clement Richard--Political activity, Communism and international relations--History

Collections: History, Entire Library

...to the Attlee Governments anti-communist...breaking under Attlee referred to...which underpinned government behaviour, arose...trusts"), the Attlee Government must be "exposed...of their the governments role in office...central to the governments evaluation of...policy, the Attlee Government saw international...
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Attlee

Journal article by Robert Pearce; History Review, 1997

Subjects:

Attlee, Clement--Evaluation, Labour Party (United Kingdom)--History, Prime ministers--Evaluation, United Kingdom--History, 1900-

Collections: History, Entire Library

...out of which stepped Mr Attlee. Historians have also joined...chorus. We are informed that Attlee was `underwhelming rather...In 1931, when the National Government was formed, Labour lost its...compared with the National Governments victory in October 1931...the seats.) Crucially, Attlee hung on to his Limehouse seat...
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The 1950 and 1951 General Elections in Britain: Robert Pearce Asks Why Labour's Period in Office under Clement Attlee Came to an End

Journal article by Robert Pearce; History Review, 2008

Subjects:

Attlee, Clement--History, British history, 1945-, Labour Party (United Kingdom)--History, Prime ministers--History

Collections: History, Entire Library

...the short-lived 1950-51 government, which had suffered not...insisted that another Labour government would produce straight totalitarianism...perhaps even crucial. Was Attlee right in his timing of the...Eatwell, The 1945-51 Labour Governments (Batsford, 1979); H...Routledge, 1994) and Attlee (Longman, 1997). He has...
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Attlee, Bevin and Britain's Cold War: Graham Goodlad Examines the Role of Britain's Postwar Labour Government in the Early Stages of the Cold War

Journal article by Graham Goodlad; History Review, 2011

Subjects:

Financial services industry--International economic relations, Financial services industry--Military aspects, Financial services--International economic relations, Financial services--Military aspects, Foreign ministers--Military aspects, Prime ministers--Military aspects, Western Union Co.

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...the USSR. Did Attlee and Bevin contribute...Nazism? Can the government be convicted of...and aims of the governments principal policy...circumstances on the government, there is a real...world power. Attlee and Bevin had...especially during the governments first two years...months of the government by Herbert Morrison...interested colleagues, Attlee relied heavily...
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Developing Health and Social Care under the Reforms of Tony Blair and Clement Attlee, Prime Ministers of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Journal article by Iain Graham; Journal of Allied Health, Vol. 33, 2004

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...goods." The new government was elected on Labours...years of Conservative governments. Similar to Attlee, Blair led a party...government reforms, Blairs government has begun to redesign...reforms brought in by Attlee 50 years ago. These...differences between the Attlee and Blair governments. The provision of...

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Magazine Articles on: attlee government

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Mr Blair, You're No Clem Attlee: Francis Beckett Compares a Government That Made a Revolution with One That Merely Tinkers

Magazine article by Francis Beckett; New Statesman, Vol. 132, July 28, 2003

Subjects:

Attlee, Clement--Appreciation, Attlee, Clement--Political activity, Blair, Tony--Political activity, United Kingdom--History, United Kingdom--Political aspects, United Kingdom--Social policy

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Street for as long as Clement Attlee, Labour prime minister from...are reminders of what Labour government is supposed to be about...ministers try to diminish them. Attlee "ran out of steam", they say; his governments welfare state and nationalisation measures had faults; Attlee failed to win a full second...
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I Knew Clem Attlee to Be a Cricket Fanatic, a Poetry Lover and a Master of the Eloquent Silence. Sadly, My Admiration Was Not Reciprocated by the Great Man

Magazine article by R. Mostyn Pritt; New Statesman, Vol. 125, November 8, 1996

Subjects:

Attlee, Clement--Attitudes, Prime ministers--Personal narratives, United Kingdom--Politics and government

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...that I first encountered C R Attlee, while he was studying the...shortcomings of the Labour government. His reply was characteristically...note. Yours sincerely, C R Attlee. PS: No further correspondence...of his room at Number 10, Attlee put down his pen, raised his...
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Attlee and Truman: Jerry Brookshire Shows That the 'Special Relationship' in 1945-51 Was in Safe, and Curiously Similar, Hands

Magazine article by Jerry Brookshire; History Today, Vol. 53, December 2003

Subjects:

Attlee, Clement--Political activity, Prime ministers, Roosevelt, Franklin D.--Political activity

Collections: History, Entire Library

...civilian control. Attlee specifically guided his governments decision to develop...wartime project. Attlee sought to prevent...and then national government, men who had gained...great democracies, Attlee and Truman each emerged...
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The Coming Battle over Land and Property: There Was a Time, in the Days of Lloyd George and Then Attlee, When Land Reform Was a Convulsive Political Issue. It Should Be So Again

Magazine article by Jason Cowley; New Statesman, Vol. 139, October 18, 2010

Subjects:

Land reform--Political aspects, Land value taxation

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...recent recession and sharp increase in government spending, social democracy in its...especially after the collapse of the Brown government, and with it Labours reputation for...sprawl would be reduced. "All Labour governments since the Second World War have tried...present course, with the coalition government committed to a doctrinaire deficit...
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The Leader of the Commons Says Blair Has Done Better Than Attlee, and We Can Still Vote Labour Even If We Opposed the War

Magazine article by John Kampfner; New Statesman, Vol. 134, January 31, 2005

Subjects:

Blair, Tony--Interviews, Hain, Peter--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, United Kingdom. Parliament. House of Commons--Officials and employees, United Kingdom--Political aspects

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...Commons Says Blair Has Done Better Than Attlee, and We Can Still Vote Labour Even...youre either going to get a Tory government through the back door or youre going...Hain compares him with Clement Attlee, but even he governed for a "relatively...

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Newspaper Articles on: attlee government

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Half a Century Ago Attlee Slumped at the Polls (but HIS Legacy Lingers On)

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), May 6, 2005

Subjects:

Attlee, Clement

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

Half a Century Ago Attlee Slumped at the Polls (but...years last night to find a Government that suffered as badly as Tony...demolished the partys appeal. But Attlee - Churchills deputy PM in the...in history. By contrast Mr Attlee actually won more votes than...
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Why Attlee Was Our Best Prime Minister; Margaret Thatcher and Clement Attlee Have Recently Been Hailed as Britain's Most Effective Prime Ministers by a Prominent Historian. Most of Us Lived through Thatcherism but Attlee's Accomplishments Are Not Quite So Well Known. Here Alun Thorne Looks Back at the Legacy of Britain's First Post-War Prime Minister and Argues That His Achievements Outshine All Those before or Since

Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), August 30, 2006

Subjects:

Attlee, Clement, Historians--Analysis

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...In the 1924 Labour Government Attlee was appointed as Under...the Empire, Attlees Government finally saw India and...Conservative and New Labour Governments have seen much of Attlees...was crying out for a Government that cared. What do...Minister - hatcher or Attlee? Click our email button...
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Gordon Brown Could Learn from Clement Attlee

Newspaper article; Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England), June 6, 2009

Subjects:

Prime ministers

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...available to every family. But Attlee in government was revolutionary. His great...the first 16 months of the governments life Attlee battled alone against Bevin...are now witnessing with the government convulsed in yet another leadership...
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Austerity Attlee; He'd Never Have Wept on TV and Put Economic Integrity before Votes. What Can Today's Politicians Learn from the Shy Man of Principle Who Steered Britain through Its Post-War Financial Crisis? 'Attlee Would Be Horrified by the State of the Nation after 13 Years of Blair and Brown'; DOMINIC SANDBROOK ON POLITICS AND POWER

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), February 20, 2010

Subjects:

Financial crises--Economic aspects, Financial crises--Political aspects, Prime ministers--Economic aspects, Prime ministers--Political activity, Prime ministers--Political aspects

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Financial Crisis? Attlee Would Be Horrified...exhausted, fractious government. After years...Crucially, Attlee ran a clean government -- so clean...encouraged by a government that never knew...spirit of the Attlee years. But after...
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WHY WE NEVER RATE OUR LEADERS; the Ruling Classes: Prime Ministers Churchill, Thatcher, Attlee, Major, Douglas-Home and Wilson

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), August 9, 2008

Subjects:

Wilson, Harold, Lord

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Ministers Churchill, Thatcher, Attlee, Major, Douglas-Home and...replaced by Labours Clement Attlee. Attlee was welcomed as creator of...resentment persisted towards the government. The polling organisation...profit of successive Tory governments. Though Eden, Churchills...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: attlee government

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Attlee, Clement Richard Attlee, 1st Earl

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...mayor of Stepney. Attlee entered Parliament...formed the National government. As leader of the Labour party from 1935, Attlee was an outspoken critic...particularly to the governments failure to intervene...nationalized. His government also enacted considerable...margin, but in 1951, Attlee decided to go to the...
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India

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...1932, and led to the Government of India Act of 1935...entirely Indian provincial governments and a federal legislature...Muslim seats and formed governments in three of the remaining...establishing an Indian interim government, in which Great Britain...government of Prime Minister Attlee in 1946 offered self...control of several state governments. In 1969 the party split...Pakistan, attempts by the government (dominated by West Pakistanis...
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Citrine, Walter Mclennan Citrine, 1st Baron

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Conference in 1945. A skillful organizer, he led the conservative wing in labor and became powerful in the Labour government of Clement Attlee. He was created baron in 1946 and was chairman of the Central Electricity Authority (1947 57). His writings...
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Labour Party

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...in the wartime coalition governments. Until 1918 the party was...proved difficult, and the governments domestic program of unemployment...formed (1931) a coalition government, but he and the Labour leaders...found new leaders in Clement Attlee (later Earl Attlee ), Herbert Morrison, and...
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Great Britain

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...with their own systems of government. For physical geography and...countries are also important. Government Great Britain is a constitutional...because of the war) and Clement Attlee and the Labour party were...more competitive. The Labour government pursued from the start a vigorous...

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