Save the date! Lloyd George Society and Liberal Democrat History Group meeting with Damian Collins and Paul Spackman
When Britain declared war on Germany in August 1914, David Lloyd George was Chancellor of the Exchequer and Herbert H. Asquith was Prime Minister. On 6 December 1916, Lloyd George replaced Asquith as Prime Minister, leading a wartime coalition that included the Conservative Party.
Lloyd George’s ascendancy (via stints as the Minister of Munitions and the […]
Paul Spackman to deliver talk on Lloyd George and Europe in Llanystumdwy – He’ll also be speaking at our Weekend too!
At 7:30pm on Thursday 19 November, Lloyd George’s biographer, Paul Spackman, will be delivering a talk on Lloyd George and Europe at the Village Hall in Llanystumdwy.
The talk is being hosted by Cyfeillion Amgueddfa Lloyd George/Friends of The Lloyd George Museum. Entry is £5 or free for Friends of the Museum.
Lloyd George Society Weekend
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SAVE THE DATE! Announcing The 2027 Lloyd George Society Weekend!
After this year’s really successful Weekend, which included a change of venue, we’re pleased to announce that the Lloyd George Society will be heading back to the Lake Country House & Spa in Llangammarch Wells.
As you can see in the photo above, the hotel is in a stunning location, and we’ll have it all to […]
LGS establishes new link with US National Winston Churchill Museum in Fulton Missouri
On the 29th September 2026, our Chair Professor Russell Deacon visited the US National Winston Churchill Museum and was given a tour around by the director Timothy Riley.
Prof Deacon was shown a lot of the material concerning Churchill as a Liberal and the original extract of the famous “Iron Curtain Fulton Speech” Churchill made that […]
‘Over me beat the invisible wings’ – Ireland, Churchill and Lloyd George
The author, Charles Stephenson, has kindly agreed that we can publish a recent article that he has written.
Although far from conventionally religious, Churchill had long considered himself under the protection of Providence. He was certainly physically fearless and sought to put himself ‘in harm’s way’, as the phrase has it. Whilst campaigning in northern […]
Interview with Paul Spackman, biographer of David Lloyd George
Paul Spackman, the author of a recently published biography of David Lloyd George, has kindly answered some questions about his book David Lloyd George – Welsh Radical, World Statesman.
Can you tell us a bit about yourself and how you came to be an author & biographer?
I have always been fascinated by History, the endless […]
Lloyd George, Liberals and Blue Plaques
Recently, our Chair was walking around Cowbridge in South Wales, a place he’s been to many times, and noticed something new – a Lloyd George Blue Plaque.
This got us thinking: have you, dear reader, noticed any blue plaques to Lloyd George or to historical Liberals?
I’ll be looking into this and I plan to make a […]
Churchill and Lloyd George: Rivals for Greatness – new podcast series
Professor Richard Toye, author of the classic Churchill and Lloyd George: Rivals for Greatness, and author and historian Dr Warren Dockter, have announced a major new series of their podcast Churchill The Finest Half Hour concentrating on the relationship between two of Britain’s greatest wartime prime ministers, David Lloyd George and Winston Churchill.
They start […]
The first serving PM to receive the Legion of Honour?
The BBC and The Guardian have both recently reported that Sir Keir Starmer was the first serving British PM to receive the French Legion of Honour. Both are wrong.
David Lloyd George was invested as Grand Cordon of the Legion of Honour in 1920. Grand Cordon was the secularist Third republic’s name for the Legion’s highest […]
