http://www.lloydgeorgesociety.org.uk/newsarchive.php Recent News Stories from Lloyd George Society en-GB Lloyd George Society http://www.lloydgeorgesociety.org.uk/ Prater Raines Ltd http://www.praterraines.co.uk/ (c) 2010 Lloyd George Society 2010-08-01T04:07+01:00 United Kingdom http://www.lloydgeorgesociety.org.uk/news/000099/new_biography_of_lloyd_george_to_be_launched_on_26_june.html 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 the post-election Conservative/Liberal coalition government in Westminster and with the National Assembly firmly established at the heart of Welsh governance and looking set to get more devolved powers. All this makes the publication of a new biography of the Welsh Wizard by Dr J Graham Jones of the National Library of Wales, timely and exciting. 2010-06-22T22:10+01:00 http://www.lloydgeorgesociety.org.uk/news/000098/visit_the_north_wales_agricultural_show_in_caernarfon__3_july_2010.html 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 as 1881 and has been running ever since. Any Society members in the area on Saturday 3 July are welcome to tread in the great man's shoes and visit the show, with its many animal and other attractions. 2010-06-09T14:52+01:00 http://www.lloydgeorgesociety.org.uk/news/000097/all_those_liberal_ministers__the_lloyd_george_connection.html 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. 2010-06-03T16:17+01:00 http://www.lloydgeorgesociety.org.uk/news/000096/victory_vince_cable_wins_channel_4_chancellors_debate.html The first ever TV debate between the three candidates to be the next Chancellor has seen Lib Dem Vince Cable win a clear victory. In a Channel 4 on-line poll carried out immediately after the debate, Vince out-polled both Alistair Darling and George Osborne. 2010-03-29T22:32+01:00 http://www.lloydgeorgesociety.org.uk/news/000095/ask_the_chancellors_live_debate_on_channel_4.html At 8pm on Monday 29th March, Channel 4 will stage a live debate between the would-be Chancellors, Liberal Democrat Vince Cable, Labour's Alistair Darling and Conservative George Osborne. Krishnan Guru-Murthy will be asking the questions. 2010-03-28T10:38+01:00 http://www.lloydgeorgesociety.org.uk/news/000094/another_successful_weekend_school.html This year's weekend school, again held at the Hotel Commodore in Llandrindod Wells, was much enjoyed by another healthy attendance with fascinating insights into economics, history, Lloyd George and current political affairs given by guest speakers. 2010-02-26T15:15+00:00 http://www.lloydgeorgesociety.org.uk/news/000093/final_programme_for_2010_weekend_school_sent_out.html Here is the final programme for the Lloyd George Society's weekend school to be held from 19-21 February 2010 at the Hotel Commodore, Llandrindod Wells: 2010-02-12T15:08+00:00 http://www.lloydgeorgesociety.org.uk/news/000092/some_snippets_about_david_lloyd_george.html There have a few stories in the press recently mentioning David Lloyd George. 2010-01-10T16:23+00:00 http://www.lloydgeorgesociety.org.uk/news/000091/act_now__lloyd_george_society_on_the_new_lib_dem_social_networking_site.html The Liberal Democrats have launched a social networking site, very similar to Facebook, as the latest part of the party's online strategy. And the Lloyd George Society has created its own group on the site to encourage interest in what we do, as well as to try and attract new members to come to the weekend schools. 2009-11-25T17:28+00:00 http://www.lloydgeorgesociety.org.uk/news/000090/19th_century_welsh_liberal_mps__a_chance_to_own_a_piece_of_liberal_history.html In 1894, T Marchant Williams published a book containing pictures and biographies of all the Welsh Liberal MPs of the time, 34 in all. Those were the days. The book was published by Daniel Owen of Cardiff. The portraits are black and white drawings by Wil Morgan similar in style to those published in Vanity Fair, with accompanying 'biographical' stories of each MP. 2009-11-04T15:33+00:00 http://www.lloydgeorgesociety.org.uk/news/000089/a_date_for_your_diary__the_next_lloyd_george_society_weekend_school_1921_february_2010.html The next weekend school will be held at the Hotel Commodore, Llandrindod Wells, Powys from the evening of Friday 19 until lunchtime on Sunday 21 February 2010. 2009-10-24T15:33+01:00 http://www.lloydgeorgesociety.org.uk/news/000088/the_love_triangle_at_the_heart_of_lloyd_georges_life.html Do not forget to watch Ffion Hague presenting a documentary on S4C on Sunday, 20 September tracing the relationship between David Lloyd George, one of Britain's greatest politicians, and his two wives. 2009-09-15T14:47+01:00 http://www.lloydgeorgesociety.org.uk/news/000087/yn_ol_troed_lloyd_george__in_lloyd_georges_footsteps.html The Friends of the Lloyd George Museum and Silver Star Holidays Ltd have organised a trip to London from Thursday 3 - Sunday 6 December 2009 to visit sites associated with David Lloyd George. 2009-09-11T12:45+01:00 http://www.lloydgeorgesociety.org.uk/news/000086/watch__the_two_wives_of_lloyd_george_with_ffion_hague_on_20_september_9pm_on_s4c.html Ffion Hague presents a one hour documentary on the relationship between Lloyd George and his wives - Margaret Owen and Frances Stevenson, charting the women's extraordinary influence on the great man's life and career. The programme is made for Welsh language channel S4C and is available with subtitles in English (page 888). Information on how to receive English Subtitles on digital can be found on s4c.co.uk, search English subtitles. S4C can be received outside Wales on Freesat 120 and Sky 134. 2009-08-10T16:40+01:00 http://www.lloydgeorgesociety.org.uk/news/000085/is_gordon_brown_the_new_lloyd_george.html A recent article in the Financial Times by historian Peter Clarke has drawn parallels between our current prime minister and David Lloyd George. 2009-06-23T19:36+01:00