Lloyd George and Jerusalem
An interesting piece in the People Column of today’s Liberal Democrat News records the surprise of members of the Liberal Democrat Friends of Israel, on a recent fact-finding trip to Israel, at discovering a street in Jerusalem named after David Lloyd George.
Lloyd George was of course prime minister at the time of the Balfour Declaration […]
Lloyd George and the Royal Air Force
Lloyd George gets a couple of mentions in recent newspaper articles concerning the anniversary of the formation of the Royal Air Force in 1918. L-G had become prime minister in December 1916 but he had previously been an unstoppable force as Minister of Munitions. He was always enthusiastic about new weapons and innovative types of […]
Lloyd George in Opera
Simon Jenkins poses this question in today’s Guardian newspaper in his review of The Welsh Academy Encyclopaedia of Wales edited by John Davies, et al (University of Wales Press), £65.
According to Jenkins the book encapsulates Wales and is an essential addition to other classic volumes about Wales such as the Dictionary of Welsh Biography, the […]
Earl Lloyd George talk: 15 April – latest details
Owen Lloyd George, the present and 3rd Earl Lloyd George of Dwyfor, the grandson of Liberal Prime Minister David Lloyd George, will speak about his famous ancestor at the Kettner Lunch, (organised jointly together with the Liberal Democrat History Group) to be held at the National Liberal Club in Whitehall Place on 15 April 2008.
The […]
Field Marshal HaigandDavid Lloyd George – The Ides of March
Read a new article in the Times concerning the difference in styles between Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig and David Lloyd George against the background of the German push forward of March 1918.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/court_and_social/article3553183.ece
The picture attached to this story is the cover of the book, The Haig Diaries: The Diaries of Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig: […]
A gloomy meal for one but mischief for another
Just over 71 years ago, on 8 March 1937, Sir Thomas Jaffrey who was once a suitor to Frances Stevenson and had wanted to marry her, invited Miss Stevenson to lunch at the Savoy Hotel. Jaffrey’s first wife had died in 1930 and he proposed marriage to Miss Stevenson the following year, when he was […]
Lloyd George equal second in leading Welsh icons poll
The Great Welsh Survey, carried out in the week commencing 18 February, has placed David Lloyd George in equal second place in the ‘favourite historical figures’ section of the poll. Top place was won by 15th century warrior prince Owain Glyndwr, the last truly Welsh prince of Wales, with 18% of the vote but Lloyd […]
New talk added to pre-2007 archive – The Royal Prerogative
An important previous talk to the Society in 2004 has today been added to the pre-2007 archive page. It was given by David Gladstone, descendant of the Grand Old Man and former British diplomat. It is based on a submission David made to the Public Affairs Select Committee of Parliament on the same subject in […]
Anniversary of bomb plot against Lloyd George
It is worth recalling on the day that protesters have been arrested for breaching security at the Palace of Westminster and yesterday’s news was full of British men being found guilty of participating in camps for terrorists, that violence has been a permanent feature of British political life.
The only British prime minister to be assassinated […]
New book about Versailles peace treaty
Geraint Talfan Davies is the Chairman of the Institute of Welsh Affairs. He has a distinguished CV, showing how close he has been over the years to the heart of Welsh public life. He was Chairman of Welsh National Opera and former Chairman of the Arts Council of Wales (2003-2006) and Controller of BBC Wales […]
