How does this artwork elucidate its History?
Clement Attlee, 1st Earl Attlee,  (1883 –  1967), served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1945 to 1951. His post-war administration saw the establishment of the National Health Service and the expansion of the Welfare state, the nationalization of major industries, the development of an independent nuclear deterrent, recognition of the State of Israel and independence for India. The son of a prosperous solicitor, Attlee practised as a barrister while undertaking voluntary work in the deprived East End of London. During the First World War he attained the rank of major, fighting in the Gallipoli campaign and on the Western Front. Profoundly affected by the poverty he observed in the East End, he began a political career as Mayor of Stepney in 1919, and was elected as Member of Parliament for Limehouse in 1922. In 1935 he was elected leader of the Labour Party and served during World War II as Deputy Prime Minister in Winston Churchill's war-time coalition, before defeating Churchill in the 1945 general election and leading his own administration as Prime Minister from 1945 to 1951.In the 1980s the Greater London Council (GLC), led by Ken Livingstone, established a public competition to design and create a statue to commemorate Attlee, who had died in 1967. The intention was to site the statue in Mile End Park, to celebrate both Attlee's achievements and his long connections with the East End. The competition was won by Frank Forster. By the time of the statue's completion in 1988, the GLC had been abolished, and the statue was accepted by Tower Hamlets London Borough Council which paid for the costs of erecting the statue outside the Limehouse Public Library. Attlee had represented the Limehouse parliamentary constituency, and its successor, Walthamstow West, from 1922 to 1955. The unveiling ceremony was undertaken by Harold Wilson, former Labour prime minister and the last surviving member of Attlee's post-war cabinet.The Limehouse Library was closed in 2003 and the Attlee statue became the target of repeated vandalism. Following an incident which saw the loss of one of the statue's hands, it was boarded up for over four years. In 2010 the council and Queen Mary University of London reached an agreement for the university to take the statue on permanent loan and re-locate it to the Mile End campus, with all costs being borne by the university. The new site also had connections to Attlee's career, as it is adjacent to the New People's Palace, where Attlee had attended the vote counting in the 1945 general election and learned of his landslide victory over Churchill which lead to the first majority Labour government. The statue was transferred, restored by Frank Forster, and re-sited and unveiled in 2011. On this occasion, the unveiling was conducted by Peter Mandelson, grandson of Herbert Morrison, Attlee's Deputy Prime Minister and his long-time political rival.
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