Peek at the Times archive
Yesterday’s (18 June) online edition of the Times newspaper contains extracts from the speeches of a number of past Chancellors of the Exchequer – to complement the contribution to be made by Alistair Darling at the Mansion House. One of the speeches included is by David Lloyd George, delivered in July 1911, although interestingly it […]
More about the new LG book
You’ll have to read the entire review of Ffion’s Hague’s new book about the women in Lloyd George’s life; The Pain and The Privilege (HarperPress, 2008) by Sam Leith in the Spectator magazine if you want to understand the headline. You can find the article at: http://www.spectator.co.uk/the-magazine/books/766561/part_3/goats-and-donkeys.thtml
New book about Lloyd George launched
As reported earlier on the website, Ffion Hague has been planning a book about Lloyd George and his women. The book has now been published and Mrs Hague launched it at the recent Hay Festival. It is called The Pain and the Privilege: The Women in Lloyd George’s Life and is published by HarperPress for […]
The Caseg Press
In an article for the Liverpool Echo published on 3 May, Dawn Collinson reviewed the value of certain forms of prime ministerial memorabilia. Included in this was mention of a Margaret Thatcher teapot fetching the sum of £70, a ceramic bust of William Gladstone fetching about £100 but noting (lamentably it seems to me) that […]
Churchill and Lloyd George – book review
In an article today in the Western Mail, under the headline ‘Welsh hands that shaped the Middle East conflict’, Rhodri Clark explores the contributions of T E Lawrence and David Lloyd George to the downfall of the Ottoman Empire in the First World War and the post-war settlement covering Palestine and its legacy for the […]
Lloyd George and Hitler
A major controversy has erupted over Lloyd George’s attitude towards Nazi Germany and Adolf Hitler, in which doubt is thrown on LG’s liberalism. We should watch the pages of forthcoming Journals of Liberal History for more debate on this issue. You can find out more about the Journal of Liberal History and the Liberal Democrat […]
Earl Lloyd George talk at the National Liberal Club
The joint Kettner Lunch/Liberal Democrat History Group meeting at the National Liberal Club yesterday was a great success. Peter Whyte of the Kettner Lunch announced that the attendance at the event was the best, the highest for any lunch since the foundation of the Kettner Lunch 34 years ago. The numbers were so great that […]
Lloyd George and Jerusalem
An interesting piece in the People Column of today’s Liberal Democrat News records the surprise of members of the Liberal Democrat Friends of Israel, on a recent fact-finding trip to Israel, at discovering a street in Jerusalem named after David Lloyd George. Lloyd George was of course prime minister at the time of the Balfour […]
Lloyd George and the Royal Air Force
Lloyd George gets a couple of mentions in recent newspaper articles concerning the anniversary of the formation of the Royal Air Force in 1918. L-G had become prime minister in December 1916 but he had previously been an unstoppable force as Minister of Munitions. He was always enthusiastic about new weapons and innovative types of […]
Lloyd George in Opera
Simon Jenkins poses this question in today’s Guardian newspaper in his review of The Welsh Academy Encyclopaedia of Wales edited by John Davies, et al (University of Wales Press), £65. According to Jenkins the book encapsulates Wales and is an essential addition to other classic volumes about Wales such as the Dictionary of Welsh Biography, […]
