Book offer for members – Lloyd George and the Coalition Liberal Party
Book offer for members – Lloyd George and the Coalition Liberal Party
A new book Lloyd George and the Coalition Liberal Party – The Papers of Lieutenant-Colonel Scovell, General Secretary of the Party, 1919-1922 is being published by Boydell & Brewer. Edited by G. H. Bennett, who has previously written on the 1922 General Election, foreign policy under […]
Michael Meadowcroft (1942-2026) – A Liberal to His Core
Last week, the Lloyd George Society was saddened to hear about the death of our friend and colleague, Michael Meadowcroft, after a short illness.
I first came across Michael’s name whilst undertaking the research for my PhD on the Welsh Liberal Party (WLP). (Although I was aware of him before this, it was here that I […]
Damian Collins at Hereford Military History Festival in September
Damian Collins OBE, Friend of the Lloyd George Society and former MP, will be talking about his book, Rivals in the Storm – How Lloyd George Seized Power, Won the War and Lost his Government, at the Hereford Military Festival.
From the event website:
Rivals in the Storm tells the gripping story of how David Lloyd George […]
Liz Saville Roberts to Give the David Lloyd George Memorial Lecture at Gwyl Cricieth Festival
Plaid Cymru’s leader in the House of Commons, Rt Hon Liz Saville Roberts MP, will give the David Lloyd George Memorial Lecture at the Gwyl Cricieth Festival on Sunday 14 June 2026.
The subject of the lecture will be “We’ll always have democracy, won’t we?”
Tickets are available from https://criciethfestival.co.uk/david-lloyd-george-lecture/
From the festival website:
About this event
‘We’ll always have […]
Richard Rhys O’Brien Gives Talk on Margaret Lloyd George – Photos
Richard Rhys O’Brien, Margaret Lloyd George’s biographer and friend of the Society, gave a talk to a packed audience yesterday in the aptly named ‘Lloyd George Room’ at the National Museum of Wales.
Organised by the Friends of the National Museum of Wales, 70 people were held in thrall to stories about this remarkable woman. Members […]
Richard Rhys O’Brien at the National Museum of Wales, Cardiff
Richard R. O’Brien, friend of the Lloyd George Society, will be continuing his series of talks on Margaret Lloyd George, the subject of his two acclaimed books The Woman Who Helped Win the War and The Campaigns of Margaret Lloyd George.
Richard will be making a personal appearance at the National Museum of Wales in Cathays, […]
Lloyd George Society Weekend 2026 – A Meeting Report
The weekend of 6 March 2026 signalled a change in the Lloyd George Society. For the first time in many years, we held our meeting at a new venue – the Lake Country House Hotel & Spa in Llangammarch Wells.
The venue change reinvigorated the Weekend school.
First of all, the accommodation was a marked change, […]
LlG Society Event – Lloyd George at the Fleet Street Festival of Words
Tuesday 12th May 2026, 5pm to 6pm at Temple Church, London, EC4Y 7BB
David Lloyd George knew Fleet Street well throughout his adult life. He took his exams at the Law Society building, at the Fleet Street end of Chancery Lane, and as a politician would cultivate the support of the editors and proprietors whose newspapers […]
His father knew Lloyd George
On the 9th April 1917, Easter Monday, the poet Edward Thomas was killed in the Battle of Arras.
