Come and join us at the next weekend school – 14/15 February 2015
The next Society weekend school will be held at the Hotel Commodore, Llandrindod Wells, on Saturday 14 and Sunday 15 February 2015. The programme is nearly complete and contains the usual good mix of history, politics and debate. Our after dinner speaker on Saturday evening is Mayor Dorothy Thornhill, three times elected Mayor of Watford.
One […]
David Lloyd George – A World War One timeline
David Lloyd George has often been called “The Man Who Won the War” given his performance after becoming Prime Minister in December 1916. Now, in the anniversary year of the outbreak of The Great War, the BBC has called on some of its most well known presenters, Huw Edwards, Andrew Marr and Jeremy Paxman, to […]
David Lloyd George: A Biography in Cartoons – a new publication
The Society is pleased to let members and supporters have details of an important new book on Lloyd George by author Alan Mumford and published by Troubador. You can find links to information about the book elsewhere on our home page the main menu.
This review of cartoons of the life of one of the major […]
Lloyd George’s Tada – latest news
The Society has heard further from the author Peter Rowland, concerning the publication by PublishNation of his new book about William George, the father of David Lloyd George about which we reported on the website at the end of last year.
The book can be obtained from either Amazon or www.lulu.com for £10.99 plus postage. (Amazon […]
Garden party for Welsh MPs
Society members and supporters are invited to a garden party for two Welsh Lib Dem MPs, Mark Williams and Roger Williams. The party will be held on June 24 at the home of Jane Ashley who works for both MPs in the House of Commons.
If you would like to attend please email Jane for more […]
New survey of George family history published
The Society is pleased to announce that we will be holding a special event in the Lloyd George Room at the National Liberal Club starting at 7.30pm on the evening of Monday 21 July, to celebrate the publication of Professor Russell Deacon’s book, The meeting will hear Professor Deacon introduce his book; to be […]
Widening the scope of the Society – two new Vice Presidents
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he Society is delighted to announce, following a decision at the 2013 AGM to try and widen the political scope of the Society, that Labour peer Professor Lord Kenneth Morgan and Plaid Cyrmu’s Lord Dafydd Wigley have agreed to become Vice Presidents. Lords Morgan and Wigley were our guest speakers last year at the Society […]
The best weekend school ever?
Members gathered for the Society’s 2014 weekend school were treated to an excellent selection of talks and presentations on the Saturday as well as a terrific debate on Britain’s membership of the European Union and a lively panel session on Sunday. Society president Lord Thomas of Gresford wondered aloud after the event if the programme […]
Come and join us at Llandrindod Wells for the next weekend school – 15/16 February 2014
The next Society weekend school will be held at the Hotel Commodore, Llandrindod Wells, on Saturday 15 and Sunday 16 February 2014. The attractive programme contains a good mix of camaraderie, history, politics and debate with themes about Europe and the also the First World War as 2014 is Euro election year as well as […]
Lloyd George’s Tada – the one father he never knew
The Society has received some more information about the new biography of the father of David Lloyd George, due to be published next year to coincide with the 150th anniversary of the death of school teacher William George. As the author, Peter Rowland, points out – in the words of the song Lloyd George knew […]
