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 […]
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 […]
