Newspaper cuttings, 1910-1967
File
Shelfmark: MS. CRA. 31
Held in our offsite storage facility
Comprises:
- Article informing of the conferment of a degree to Clement Attlee's brother Bernard Attlee by Oxford University, 18 Jun 1910
- Three cuttings, one n.d. Two are tributes to Clement Attlee, and one, 1919, concerns the Royal Air Force and the Navy, Apr 1919, Nov 1957
- Five out of six instalments of Admiral of the Fleet Lord Wester Wemyss's memoirs of the Dardanelles operations. The first instalment is missing, Apr 1924
- Cutting of an article from an Australian newspaper on Clement Attlee's profile, 9 Jun 1935
- Profile of Clement Attlee in The Star newspaper as a Member of Parliament and Leader of The Opposition, 16 Apr 1937
- Article regarding Clement Attlee's sister, Mary Attlee 21 Jul 1938
- Article regarding the activities of residents in the Cape Peninsula of South Africa, mentioning Mary Attlee, 1940
- Cutting of what appears to be a mention of Violet Attlee appearing on television or the radio, appealing on behalf of the Homes for Motherless Children, Ealing, [1945-1951]
- Cuttings regarding Clement Attlee and Violet Attlee's silver wedding anniversary, Jan 1947
- Page containing a picture of the Attlee family taking tea. Overleaf, an article regarding Clement Attlee's candidature for the Walthamstow West Constituency Labour Party selection, 1 Dec 1948
- Cutting from a French newspaper, regarding Violet Attlee, 1948
- Serialisation of Clement Attlee's autobiography in The Star, 13 Jul 1952
- Two photographs of Clement Attlee and Violet Attlee at an airport, 5 Jun 1954
- Eight cuttings either concerning Clement Attlee or written by Clement Attlee, mostly 1955-1956
- Incomplete piece from The Spectator regarding the aims of a socialist society, 3 Aug 1956
- Article written by Clement Attlee on the question of Malta's desire to become a part of the United Kingdom, 6 Sep 1956
- Article regarding a book review by Clement Attlee assessing colonialism in the modern age, 28 Sep 1956
- Review of biographies of Keir Hardie and Tom Mann, 7 Dec 1956
- Review by Clement Attlee of a memorial to Jan Masaryk written by Sir Robert Bruce Lockhart , 11 Jan 1957
- Review of Kwame Nkrumah's autobiography by Clement Attlee, 8 Mar 1957
- Review by Clement Attlee of an A.J.P. Taylor book on foreign policy dissent between 1792 and 1939, 28 Jul 1957
- Review of The Fateful Years by Hugh Dalton, Jul-Aug 1957
- Article entitled Never Smell a College Spoon by Clement Attlee, concerning his time at Haileybury, 21 Nov 1958
- Review of a book on Mahatma Gandhi by B.R. Nanda, 13 Mar 1959
- Article by Clement Attlee on men with influence at 10 Downing Street, 1959
- Article by Clement Attlee regarding leadership in politics, 7 Feb 1960
- Article by Clement Attlee on a number of topics pertaining representation of the people, social attitudes and how socialists of middle class background are perceived by others and their families, 14 Feb 1960
- Letter to the editor from Clement Attlee on the topic of the constitutional role of a Prime Minister in the United Kingdom political system, 9 Aug 1960
- Article on the annual procession at Windsor Castle for the Knights of the Garter, 19 Jun 1962
- Cutting showing Clement Attlee congratulating Lady Clementine Churchill on her 80th birthday. The cutting was sent to Clement Attlee from the President of the Pakistan Council for World Government, Mr. Ahmed Jaffer, 5-9 Apr 1965
- Cutting from the Sunday Times of an article titled Malory reclaimed by Hugh Trevor-Roper, 5 Mar 1967
- Two articles concerning the death of Clement Attlee. The first is by the Daily News of Kuwait on 9 Oct and reports his death, and the second is by the Illustrated Weekly of India on 5 Nov discussing a postage stamp tribute to Clement Attlee, 9 Oct-5 Nov 1967
- Article from the Daily News in Kuwait, reporting those mourning the death of Clement Attlee, including the Australian Prime Minister and leaders from Tokyo and Germany, 9 Oct 1967
- Three cuttigns from Indian newspapers, sent by an admirer of Clement Attlee (Mr. R. Rai)-from the Indian Express, The Hindu and the Deccan Herald. All three cuttings celebrate the life of Clement Attlee, and offer deepest condolences over his death, 10 Oct 1967
- Article by Clement Attlee on Keir Hardie, n.d.
- Article by Clement Attlee on a visit to the United Kingdom from the Soviet Union Mr Khrushchev and Mr Bulganin, n.d.
- Article written by Clement Attlee on his recent visit to the Soviet Union in The Star newspaper, n.d.
- Review by Clement Attlee of a book by Lord Halifax, n.d.
- Photograph of Clement Attlee with crowd in the background, n.d.
- Two articles by Clement Attlee regarding proposals to make the office of Prime Minister in to that similar to the President of The United States of America, n.d.
- Photocopy of Bernard Attlee's scrapbook containing a photograph of Clement Attlee and L. G. Attlee in their officer training corp uniforms. Also includes cuttings, n.d.
- Photocopy of article regarding Violet Attlee's death, n.d.
- Review of The Truman Memoirs, Volume 2, Years of Trial and Hope by Clement Attlee in unknown newspaper, n.d.
- Review of a pamphlet written by G. D. H. Cole regarding to communism and socialism, specifically dealing with Soviet style communism, n.d.
- Articles regarding reform of the House of Lords, n.d.
- Review by Clement Attlee of The Life of George Lansbury by Raymond Postgate, n.d.
- Article regarding the reform of the House of Commons, n.d.
Dates
- Creation: 1910-1967
Extent
1 box (1 folder)
Language of Materials
- English
- French
Shelfmark
MS. CRA. 31
Repository Details
Part of the Bodleian Libraries Repository
Contact:
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Weston Library
Broad Street
Oxford OX1 3BG United Kingdom
specialcollections.enquiries@bodleian.ox.ac.uk