Lib Dem MPs act to help save Lloyd George village school
Fifteen members of Parliament, including all four Welsh Liberal Democrat MPs, have signed an Early Day Motion (EDM) in the House of Commons protesting against the threatened closure of the village school at Llanystumdwy attended as a child by David Lloyd George. They linked their protest to the recent unveiling of the statue of LG […]
HELP SAVE LLOYD GEORGE’S VILLAGE SCHOOL
The Society understands that Plaid Cymru led Gwynedd Council have recently put forward proposals to close a number of the county’s Primary Schools. Among those threatened is the primary school which was once the school of the Liberal Prime Minister, David Lloyd George. A local group, Save Llanystumdwy, has been formed to campaign to keep […]
Leadership candidate chooses Lloyd George as ‘hero’
As they did for the leadership elections in 1999 and 2006, the Lib Dem History Group has approached the candidates to write a short piece nominating their personal historical heroes. The candidates were asked to explain how they have been inspired or influenced by their choices and to make some assessment of their importance. Nick […]
LLOYD GEORGE STATUE UNVEILED BY PRINCE OF WALES
The long awaited statue of David Lloyd George was unveiled yesterday in Parliament Square by the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall. The official party included Prime Minister Gordon Brown and former premiers Margaret Thatcher and John Major. Prince Charles was patron of the appeal trust committee which was formed to commission the […]
WEEKEND SCHOOL 2008 – SPEAKERS AND COSTS ANNOUNCED
It is confirmed that the next weekend school will be held at the Commodore Hotel, Llandrindod Wells between Friday 15 and Sunday 17 February 2008. The Society will have exclusive use of the hotel (except of course for the public bar). SPEAKERS Some attractive speakers have been announced for the school. Chris Huhne MP will […]
Professor Lord Morgan to champion Lloyd George in Greatest Liberal contest.
Was Lloyd George the greatest ever Liberal? As previously reported, the Liberal Democrat History Group is running a contest to determine who was the greatest Liberal of all time. Readers of the Journal of Liberal History voted over the summer to whittle down a list of 15 nominees (plus a number of write-in candidates) to […]
NEXT WEEKEND SCHOOL – DATES ANNOUNCED
It has just been announced that the next meeting of the Lloyd George Society will take place between Saturday and Sunday, 16 -17 February 2008, so make sure there is a space in your diary for that weekend. The venue has been confirmed as the Hotel Commodore, Llandrindod Wells. This will be our fourth year […]
The greatest ever Liberal? David Lloyd George in the final four.
The Liberal Democrat History Group, through its website and the Journal of Liberal History have been running a competition to find Britain’s greatest liberal. The contest was inspired partially by the 2002 Great Briton competition run by the BBC, won by Winston Churchill. The History Group invited readers of the Journal to vote for a […]
THERE IS NO FRIENDSHIP AT THE TOP
Politicians always get misquoted, or, as they usually prefer to put it, ‘get taken out of context’ (translation – “I did say that but I realise now it was a dreadful mistake to say it”. Sometimes they are famously credited with things they did not say at all. Jim Callaghan never uttered the words, “Crisis, […]
Lloyd George photos in the Daily Encounters exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery.
A new exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery in Trafalgar Square, Daily Encounters – Photographs from Fleet Street, Exploring Britain and Britishness through newspaper photography, tells the story of photojournalism since its earliest days to the near present. It features some pictures of Lloyd George as early examples of the kind of press photographs which […]
