Attlee, Clement Richard, (1883-1967), 1st Earl Attlee, statesman

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Surname:	Attlee
Forenames:	Clement Richard
Gender:	Male
Date:	1883-1967
Title:	1st Earl Attlee
History:	Statesman and Prime Minister. Labour MP 1922-1955 (Limehouse 1922-50; Walthamstow 1950-55). Leader Parliamentary Labour Party, 1935-1955 (retired). Lord Privy Seal 1940-1942. Deputy Prime Minister 1942-1945. Prime Minister 1945-1951. Carried legislation for nationalisation of key industries and establishment of welfare state. Created Earl in 1955.
Biography:	ODNB link for Attlee, Clement Richard (1883-1967) 1st Earl Attlee, statesman
References:	DNB; NCA Rules
Name authority reference:	GB/NNAF/P274921 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/P165647 )
Online related resources	Bibliography of British and Irish History link for Clement Richard Attlee

Collections
Number	Description	Held by	Reference	Further information
1	1955: President Eisenhower's State of the Union Message: other policy speeches by US leaders;...	The National Archives, Kew	FO 371/114353
2	1938-1947: Cabinet Office: Minister of Defence Secretariat: Records	The National Archives, Kew	CAB 120
3	1938-1947: War Cabinet and Cabinet: Various Ministers: Private Office Files	The National Archives, Kew	CAB 118
4	1935-1951: Prime Minister's Office: Correspondence and Papers, 1945-1951	The National Archives, Kew	PREM 8
5	1916-1973: Cabinet Office and predecessors: Registered Files (1916 to 1965)	The National Archives, Kew	CAB 21
6	1924-57: corresp and papers	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections	MSS Attlee	NRA 27633 See Hazlehurst, Whitehead & Woodland, Guide to the papers of British cabinet ministers 1900-1964, 1996
7	1939-45: official corresp and papers	The National Archives	CAB118
8	1883-1955: misc corresp and papers	Cambridge University: Churchill Archives Centre	ATLE	NRA 12661 See Hazlehurst, Whitehead & Woodland, Guide to the papers of British cabinet ministers 1900-1964, 1996
9	c1943-50: corresp with Viscount Addison	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections	MS Addison dep c 190	NRA 42344
10	1941-64: corresp with AV Alexander	Cambridge University: Churchill Archives Centre	AVAR	NRA 12665 Alexander
11	c1943-64: corresp (48 items) with Lord Ammon	Hull History Centre (Hull University Archives)	U DMN	NRA 27799
12	1915-60: letters to Tom Attlee	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections	MSS Eng c. 4792-4
13	1943-61: corresp with Lord Beaverbrook	Parliamentary Archives	BBK	NRA 19284 Aitken
14	1951-64: letters to Patricia Beck	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections	MSS Eng c 571	See Accessions to Repositories 1983
15	1940-45: corresp with Ernest Bevin	Cambridge University: Churchill Archives Centre	BEVN	NRA 19698
16	1950-53: corresp with Sir Sydney Cockerell	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MS 52703
17	1940-47: corresp with Sir Henry Dale	The National Archives	CAB 127/213
18	1951-52: corresp with Hugh Dalton	The National Archives	CAB 127/211
19	1946-56: corresp with Clement Davies	National Library of Wales: Department of Collection Services	Clement Davies	NRA 31414 Davies
20	1945-47: corresp with 17th Earl of Derby	Liverpool Record Office	920 DER	NRA 20761
21	1939: corresp with ER Dodds	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections	MS Eng lett c 469	See Annual Report 1979-80 p20
22	1946-66: letters to Desmond Donnelly	National Library of Wales: Department of Collection Services	Desmond Donnelly Papers/A,C	NRA 41723
23	1947-55: corresp with Huw T Edwards	National Library of Wales: Department of Collection Services	Huw T Edwards papers	NRA 42410
24	1941-64: corresp with AL Goodhart	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections	MS Eng c 2881	NRA 36176
25	1922-67: letters to James Griffiths	National Library of Wales: Department of Collection Services	James Griffiths	NRA 23695 Griffiths See Annual Reports, 1977-78, 1978-79
26	1929-59: corresp, mainly with Arthur Creech Jones	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections	MSS Brit Emp s 332	NRA 14026
27	letters (61) to Harold Laski	Hull History Centre (Hull University Archives)	DLA	See J Saville, The Labour Archive at the University of Hull, 1989, p8
28	1936-50: corresp with Sir BH Liddell Hart	King's College London: Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives	KCLMA Liddell Hart B H	NRA 19291
29	1937: corresp with Lord Londonderry	The Story Durham (formerly Durham County Record Office)	D/Lo	NRA 11528 Vane-Tempest-Stewart
30	1940-62: corresp with David Low	Yale University Libraries: Beinecke Library	GEN MSS 96
31	1950-64: corresp with Morgan Phillips	Labour History Archive and Study Centre (People's History Museum)		NRA 14863
32	1931-46: corresp with 3rd Earl of Selborne	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections	Selborne papers	NRA 22802
33	1948-52: corresp with Lord Shawcross	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections	MS Eng c 2720	See Accessions to Repositories 1991
34	1938-54: corresp with RR Stokes	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections	Stokes papers	See Hazlehurst & Woodland, Guide to the papers of British cabinet ministers 1900-1951, 1974
35	1952: corresp with Sir RR Welensky and associated papers rel to his visit to Rhodesia	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections	MSS Welensky (386/1-5)	NRA 39191
36	1939-52: corresp with Arthur Woodburn	National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections	Acc.7656
37	1945-67: corresp with AP Young	Warwick University: Modern Records Centre	MSS.242/C/8	NRA 33301
38	1955-60: corresp rel to World Government Associations	Sussex University Library Special Collections	SxMs 33	NRA 20887