Complex sentence: On being confirmed as Prime Minister, Attlee appointed Wilkinson as Minister of Education, the first woman to hold the post in Britain, and only the second woman ever to have held a position in the cabinet in British history, after Margaret Bondfield.
Split into simpler sentences: On being confirmed as Prime Minister, Attlee appointed Wilkinson as Minister of Education, the first woman to hold the post in Britain. She was only the second woman ever to have held a position in the cabinet in British history, after Margaret Bondfield.