What are the lessons of the Newport by-election for today’s Coalition partners?
In an earlier article on this site, Professor Russell Deacon wrote about the Newport by-election of 1922 which was the catalyst for the fall of the Lloyd George-Bonar Law, Liberal-Tory coalition government. In a further article Professor Deacon looks in more detail at impact of the Newport by-election and the lessons for present day Clegg-Cameron […]
Ninety years on: the Welsh by-election that brought down a coalition government
October 2012 marks the 90th anniversary of a by-election in Wales that changed the course of British politics and, in many ways, has uncanny similarities with the present day. Professor Russell Deacon casts his gaze on the coalition-rocking Newport by-election of 1922.
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Two men who got things done
Deputy Prime Minister, Nick Clegg seen here with Lloyd George Society officer, Professor Russell Deacon holding two portrait posters of Clegg and David Lloyd George at the Cardiff South and Penarth by-election headquarters in Cardiff on Friday 8th September.
The original Lloyd George poster comes from the 1929 ‘We can conquer unemployment’ general election. It alludes […]
Date of 2013 weekend school announced
The Society’s weekend school for 2013 will take place at the Hotel Commodore, Llandrindod Wells from Friday 15 – Sunday 17 February next year. Please note your diaries now.
The following speakers have confirmed; Dr J Graham Jones, Head of the Welsh Political Archive at the National Library of Wales on our former Vice-President, Jennifer Longford; […]
Join us for a celebration of Britain’s last Liberal prime minister – on his 150th birthday
David Lloyd George was born on 17 January 1863 in Manchester. Brought up in the Caernarfonshire village of Llanystumdwy under the tutelage of his uncle Lloyd he went on to become Celtic Radical, Welsh Nationalist, Champion of Nonconformity, Liberal MP for Caernarfon Boroughs for 54 years, Author of the People’s Budget, Prime Minister and The […]
First Welsh minister in Liberal tradition since Gwilym Lloyd George
The Society is delighted to report that Baroness Jenny Randerson’s recent appointment as a Welsh Office minister in the government re-shuffle makes her first Welsh Liberal to hold a UK ministerial post in a peacetime administration since Gwilym Lloyd George in 1945. She also becomes the first Welsh female politician to hold office at Westminister […]
Celia Thomas wins Health Champion award
The Society wishes to offer its congratulations to Baroness Celia Thomas, one of the Society’s Vice-Presidents and committee member, on her receipt of the award of Health Champion from the as part of their Charity Champion Awards, 2012. Celia received her award from Speaker of the House of Commons, John Bercow.
The organisers ask charitable […]
Professor Kenneth Morgan recommends Peace, ReformandLiberation
Professor Kenneth Morgan, biographer of Lloyd George, and valued guest at Society events has written a review of the recently published history of Liberal politics in Britain, edited by Robert Ingham and Duncan Brack and published by Biteback Books. Morgan’s review is almost as much of a review of Liberal history itself as it […]
Tribute to Gwilym Rhys Edwards
Society members attending our last weekend school were saddened to learn of the death of one of our most stalwart supporters and friends, Gwilym Rhys Edwards. Here is the tribute to Gwilym delivered at the school by Winston Roddick, now the chairman of the Society.
” had been a life long member of the Liberal Party […]
Jennifer Longford remembered
A new obituary of Jennifer Longford has appeared in The Telegraph, edition of 9 April 2012. With the Society’s consent it quotes from the talk Jennifer gave to the weekend school in 2001 and contains other material which may be new to some readers. The obituary also recognises Jennifer Longford’s role as a Vice-President of […]
