The Papers of Clement Attlee, Earl Attlee

CURRICULUM VITAE:

3 Jan 1883: Born in Putney.

1892: Preparatory School, Northern Place, Potters Bar.

1896: Haileybury College.

Oct 1901: University College, Oxford.

1906: Called to the Bar.

1907: Manager of Haileybury College Boys' Club, Stepney.

1910: Secretary of Toynbee Hall, Whitechapel.

1913: Lecturer at London School of Economics.

1914: Lieutenant, 6th South Lancs. Regt.

1915: Gallipoli.

1919: Demobilised as a Major.

1919: Mayor of Stepney.

1922: M.P. for Limehouse.

1923: Under Secretary of State for War.

1930: Chancellor of Duchy of Lancaster.

1931: Postmaster General.

1935: Leader of Labour Party.

1940: Lord Privy Seal.

1942: Deputy Prime Minister and Secretary of State for the Dominions.

1943: Lord President of the Council.

1945: Prime Minister.

1950: M.P. for West Walthamstow.

1951: Resigned. Leader of the Opposition.

1955: Earl Attlee.

8 Oct 1967: Died in London, buried in Westminster Abbey.

Publications: "As It Happened" (London, 1954), "A Prime Minister Remembers" by Francis Williams (London, 1961).

The small collection of Clement Attlee's papers held at Churchill Archives Centre consists of material relating to Attlee's autobiography (published in 1954), "As It Happened" (Heinemann) and some correspondence.

Lord Attlee deposited this small collection at Churchill College in April 1965.

The first file (marked "Biography Material", now ATLE 1) contained some early drafts of his autobiography and the other (marked "Income Tax", now ATLE 2) contained correspondence with Churchill and other letters. Neither file was arranged in order, but the contents of each had clearly been carefully selected.

The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge. Churchill Archives Centre is open from Monday to Friday, 9am-5pm. A prior appointment and two forms of identification are required.

Researchers wishing to publish excerpts from the papers must obtain prior permission from the copyright holders and should seek advice from Archives Centre staff.

Please cite as Churchill Archives Centre, The Papers of Clement Attlee, Earl Attlee, ATLE

Lord Attlee's autobiography "As It Happened" (London, 1954).

The Bodleian Library, Oxford, holds most of Lord Attlee's papers (reference GB 0161 MSS Attlee). A description of the collection is available on the Archives Hub (http://www.archiveshub.ac.uk/).

A copy of this finding aid is available for consultation at Churchill Archives Centre, Cambridge, the National Register of Archives, London and on the Janus website, http://janus.lib.cam.ac.uk/.

This collection level description and catalogue were prepared by Natalie Adams of Churchill Archives Centre in March 2005, using information from the original catalogue to the collection (1967).

ATLE 3/2 is a microfilm copy of the collection. It is not issued in place of the collection as the divisions between one file and the next are not clear and it might be difficult to establish references clearly and accurately.