Dates and speakers announced for 2012 weekend school
The next Society weekend school will be held from Friday 17 – Sunday 19 February 2012 at the Hotel Commodore, Llandrindod Wells. Confirmed speakers include Dr Sandy Waugh (contributor to the ) comparing aspects of Scottish and Welsh Liberalism, Professor Jon Roper of Swansea University to give an assessment of President Barack Obama in Presidential […]
The Wizard, the Goat and the Man Who Won the War – Lloyd George’s life on stage
Playwright D J Britton, who lectures in Creative Writing at Swansea University has written a one-man play about the life of David Lloyd George. It will star actor Richard Elfyn and will tour venues across Wales this coming November. An early version of the drama was given a reading in Lloyd George’s home village of […]
Remembering John Campbell – a celebratory lecture
Society members were shocked and saddened to learn at this year’s weekend school that one of our stalwart members and former speaker at the school, John Campbell, had died last year after being diagnosed with cancer. John, together with his wife Suzanne, were frequent visitors to the schools and regularly enlivened sessions with their trenchant […]
New addition to the Society archive – talks delivered to the weekend school of 2004
The Lloyd George Society unfortunately does not hold a complete archive of all the talks delivered at past weekend schoold, so we are pleased to be able to make available on the website a copy of the published talks given to the 2004 weekend school held at Llanwrytyd Wells. One of these talks on the […]
Lloyd George and Churchill: echoes of Cameron and Clegg?
A recent article in Wales online should make interesting reading for Society members and all those fascinated by the lives and careers of those two 20th century political giants David Lloyd George and Winston Churchill. The article posits that theirs was a relationship with very modern echoes. Like David Cameron and Nick Clegg, David Lloyd […]
Heroes and villains of the Welsh Liberal Party
In honour of the late Lord Richard Livsey, Professor Russell Deacon reprised elements of the talk he gave to the 2011 weekend school in a special lecture at the Telegraph Hay Festival in May. Richard Livsey was a well loved vice-president of the Lloyd George Society and was also a vice president of the Hay […]
Lloyd George Society congratulates new Assembly Member William Powell
The Lloyd George Society is very pleased to offer its congratulations to Councillor William Powell on his election to the National Assembly as a member for mid-Wales. William is currently a county councillor for Talgarth, the home area of former LG Society vice-president the late Lord Richard Livsey, on Powys Council. Cllr Powell was elected […]
Full programme for the 2011 weekend school announced
Baroness Celia Thomas delivered the following tribute to the late Lord Richard Livsey, a vice-president of the Lloyd George Society, and former MP for Brecon and Radnor at the recent Society weekend school in Llandrindod Wells. Following the tribute and toast to Richard’s memory, Cllr Terry James, who had also worked closely with Richard as […]
Lloyd George: the Great Outsider – mixed reviews
The new biography of David Lloyd George by Roy Hattersley has had mixed reviews since its recent publication by Little, Brown books. A taste of the reviewers’ opinion is revealed below but the Society simply welcomes the wealth of new interest in our hero and encourages all visitors to the website to read the book […]
David Lloyd George – always in the news!
Members are mourning the death aged 75 of Lord Livsey of Talgarth who was a Vice-President of the Lloyd George Society and a frequent attender and speaker at Society weekend schools. We pay tribute to Richard’s work for the Lloyd George Society and for the cause of Welsh Liberalism. He was one of those rare […]
