Harold Wilson – The Winner: a Lloyd George Society meeting with Nick Thomas-Symonds MP; Tuesday 18 October at 7:30pm in The Lounge at the National Liberal Club
The Lloyd George Society will be holding a meeting on the evening of Tuesday 18 October in The Lounge at the National Liberal Club starting at 7.30pm. Our guest speaker will be the Labour MP for Torfaen and Shadow Secretary of State for International Trade, Nick Thomas-Symonds. Mr Thomas-Symonds, who is a Fellow of the […]
The Death of Queen Elizabeth II
The Lloyd George Society wishes to send its deep and sincere condolences to His Majesty the King and the Royal Family on the death of the Queen. A family has lost a mother, a grandmother, a beloved aunt, a matriarch and we offer our sympathies on this personal loss. But the death of Queen Elizabeth […]
Judi Lewis – A Tribute
Helen Hughes, former private secretary to Emlyn Hooson was a close colleague and friend of Judi Lewis, one of the founder members of the Lloyd George Society who sadly died on 18 June. Helen’s personal trubute to Judi is attached below. The photograph of Judi was kindly supplied by the family and we understand it […]
Remembering Judith (Judi) Lewis MBE
Readers will be saddened to hear that one of the Lloyd George Society’s founding members, Judi Lewis, has died at the age of 83. Judith Lewis died on 18 June 2022 at the University of Wales Hospital in Cardiff after a brave struggle with a debilitating illness. Her funeral will be held at Cardiff and […]
Lloyd George Society elects a new Vice President
The AGM of the Lloyd George Society held on 26 February 2022 agreed to the election of Lady Elizabeth Gibson-Morgan as a new Vice President of the Society. Elizabeth has become a frequent and much appreciated speaker at the Society’s weekend schools over the past few years sharing her wide and detailed academic knowledge on […]
Another successful weekend school
Despite doubts that we would be able to hold a weekend school this year with continuing Covid 19 restrictions in place during the organisational phase last autumn and with people rightly still cautious about mixing in face to face groups again in the winter and as the year turned, we were determined to go ahead […]
The Lloyd George Society weekend school is back
As promised, the Lloyd George Society weekend school is back. The 2022 school will be held at our usual venue, the Hotel Commodore in beautiful Llandrindod Wells on 26-27 February. The hotel has not asked for any increase in accommodation costs since our last school in 2020 but there is a small increase in the […]
What happened to the voices arguing for a strong Welsh and British identity in the union? by Professor Russell Deacon
Alistair Cooke, Baron Lexden, the historian of the Conservative party, has kindly agreed to address the Society on the subject of the Lloyd George peacetime coalition. The first post 1918 government contained leading Liberals including Winston Churchill, HAL Fisher and Christopher Addison. But how Liberal was the government going to be faced with a Coalition […]
A Liberal History of Montgomeryshire – online talk
One hundred and forty years ago Montgomeryshire people were up in arms against high rents, discrimination and unfair taxes. It led to the rise of the Liberal Party and over a century of Liberal and Liberal Democrat MP’s. Welshpool Town Councillor and former Montgomeryshire Party Chair, Richard Church, talks about the personalities that have represented […]
