John Bew.
JOHN BEW: CLEMENT ATTLEE BIOGRAPHY
CITIZEN CLEM: A BIOGRAPHY OF ATTLEE (2016)
Winner of the 2017 Orwell Prize for Political Writing.
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John Bew’s biography of Clement Attlee is unashamedly admiring. He sees Attlee not as an unassuming person of modest talents in the shadow of Churchill, but as a great prime minister whose achievements transformed post-war Britain. These achievement included the creation of the National Health Service, the granting of independence to India, and ensuring Britain’s role in the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation. Reviewing the book in the Sunday Times, Robert Harris wrote: ‘Outstanding … We still live in the society that was shaped by Clement Attlee’.
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John Bew has an academic family, his father Paul Bew being Professor Irish Politics at Queen’s University Belfast, and his wife Greta Jones bing a history professor at the University of Ulster. Bew took his degree in history at Cambridge, where he stayed on as lecturer in Modern British History. He is currently (2024) Professor in History and Foreign Policy at King’s College London.
