100 years of the state pension – thanks to Lloyd George
The press has featured a number of articles this week to commemorate the 100th anniversary last week of the introduction of the state pension in 1908. David Lloyd George was Chancellor of the Exchequer at the time; the making of ‘that provision for the aged which compassion demands..’ as Winston Churchill described it in March […]
Do want to own a piece of Lloyd George history?
If you would like to be the owner of a unique piece of political memorabilia associated with David Lloyd George, you will have to attend the auction rooms at Welshpool Town Hall next month, when you will have a chance to bid for a George III drop leaf bureau made in oak which is being […]
Ffion Hague talks about her Lloyd George book
Ffion Hague has been talking about her book on David Lloyd George and the women in his life, The Pain and the Privilege, at the Buxton Festival in Derbyshire.
Among the one-liners Mrs Hague produced were “Lloyd George was still pursuing conquests into his late 60s, making Clinton look like an amateur” and “[LG] was the […]
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 […]
