2009 Weekend School – date and venue set
The Society’s next weekend school will be held at the Hotel Commodore in Llandrindod Wells from the evening of Friday 20 February 2009 until lunchtime on Sunday 22nd. No details as to cost or of guest speakers are yet available.
As more information becomes known the details will appear on the website but please clear that […]
Celebrating 50 years of Independent Television in Wales – with a mention of Lloyd George, of course
Actor Jonathan Owen is making a series of four programmes for ITV1 Wales, based on the years 1958, 1948, 1928 and 1918 – to mark fifty years of independent television broadcasting in Wales.
The series will start with a look at the 1958 Commonwealth Games in Cardiff. 1948 will examine the birth of the National Health […]
Working with Others: the Lib-Lab Pact revisited – would LG have approved?
Of all politicians, apart perhaps from Winston Churchill, surely Lloyd George was one who most understood that you could only achieve things in politics from a position of power. Lloyd George shared power with the Conservatives and Labour during his First World War coalition. He considered the idea of ‘fusion’ between Coalition Liberals and Conservatives […]
Peek at the Times archive
Yesterday’s (18 June) online edition of the Times newspaper contains extracts from the speeches of a number of past Chancellors of the Exchequer – to complement the contribution to be made by Alistair Darling at the Mansion House.
One of the speeches included is by David Lloyd George, delivered in July 1911, although interestingly it is […]
More about the new LG book
You’ll have to read the entire review of Ffion’s Hague’s new book about the women in Lloyd George’s life; The Pain and The Privilege (HarperPress, 2008) by Sam Leith in the Spectator magazine if you want to understand the headline.
You can find the article at:
http://www.spectator.co.uk/the-magazine/books/766561/part_3/goats-and-donkeys.thtml
New book about Lloyd George launched
As reported earlier on the website, Ffion Hague has been planning a book about Lloyd George and his women. The book has now been published and Mrs Hague launched it at the recent Hay Festival. It is called The Pain and the Privilege: The Women in Lloyd George’s Life and is published by HarperPress for […]
The Caseg Press
In an article for the Liverpool Echo published on 3 May, Dawn Collinson reviewed the value of certain forms of prime ministerial memorabilia. Included in this was mention of a Margaret Thatcher teapot fetching the sum of £70, a ceramic bust of William Gladstone fetching about £100 but noting (lamentably it seems to me) that […]
Churchill and Lloyd George – book review
In an article today in the Western Mail, under the headline ‘Welsh hands that shaped the Middle East conflict’, Rhodri Clark explores the contributions of T E Lawrence and David Lloyd George to the downfall of the Ottoman Empire in the First World War and the post-war settlement covering Palestine and its legacy for the […]
Lloyd George and Hitler
A major controversy has erupted over Lloyd George’s attitude towards Nazi Germany and Adolf Hitler, in which doubt is thrown on LG’s liberalism.
We should watch the pages of forthcoming Journals of Liberal History for more debate on this issue.
You can find out more about the Journal of Liberal History and the Liberal Democrat History Group […]
Earl Lloyd George talk at the National Liberal Club
The joint Kettner Lunch/Liberal Democrat History Group meeting at the National Liberal Club yesterday was a great success. Peter Whyte of the Kettner Lunch announced that the attendance at the event was the best, the highest for any lunch since the foundation of the Kettner Lunch 34 years ago. The numbers were so great that […]
