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 […]
New biography of Lloyd George to be launched on 26 June
David Lloyd George was a Liberal leader in a coalition government of Liberals and Conservatives. He was a radical Welsh nationalist, advocating ‘home rule’ for Wales. He was the master pragmatist, always believing that getting things done was preferable to opposing from the sidelines. These are highly contemporary themes for Liberalism and for Wales with […]
Visit the North Wales Agricultural Show in Caernarfon – 3 July 2010
Lloyd George was of course Member of Parliament for the Caernarfon Boroughs from 1890-1945. In his time he would have visited and supported hundreds of local events in his constituency. The North Wales Agricultural Show (sometimes called the Caernarfon Show) was probably one LG attended at some time as it was founded as long ago […]
All those Liberal ministers – the Lloyd George connection
Since the general election and the formation of the first peacetime coalition government in Britain since the National Government in 1931, there has been a lot of looking back. Much of the history keeps coming back to Lloyd George.
It was the Wall Street crash of 1929 which precipitated the global financial crisis of the Great […]
