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) 2008 Lloyd George Society 2008-12-05T08:01+00:00 United Kingdom http://www.lloydgeorgesociety.org.uk/news/000072/come_to_the_weekend_school_and_get_the_obama_effect.html No, sorry to disappoint you but President-elect Obama won't be a guest at the Weekend School. However there is a session addressing his election and the impact it may have on relations between Britain, Europe and America. 2008-11-14T13:26+00:00 http://www.lloydgeorgesociety.org.uk/news/000071/lord_newby_confirmed_as_additional_weekend_school_speaker.html Lord Newby of Rothwell (Dick Newby) has confirmed he will speak at the Weekend School to be held at the Hotel Commodore in Llandrindod Wells on the weekend of 20/22 February 2009. 2008-11-12T17:58+00:00 http://www.lloydgeorgesociety.org.uk/news/000070/2009_weekend_school_dates_and_some_speakers_confirmed.html The next weekend school will be held at the Commodore Hotel, Llandrindod Wells between 20th and 22nd February 2009. 2008-10-22T17:19+00:00 http://www.lloydgeorgesociety.org.uk/news/000069/hidden_portrait_of_lloyd_george_revealed.html A portrait of David Lloyd George, which has rarely been on view since it was painted in 1936, has been put on display at the Lloyd George Museum at Llanystumdwy. The painting is by Welsh artist Vincent Evans from Swansea who worked as a coal miner before becoming famous as an artist. 2008-09-30T13:58+00:00 http://www.lloydgeorgesociety.org.uk/news/000068/bridget_fox_on_lloyd_george_pensions_and_contemporary_politics.html Bridget Fox is the Liberal Democrat prospective parliamentary candidate for Islington South & Finsbury where she has a real chance of unseating Labour MP Emily Thornberry at the next election. In 2005 Thornberry's majority was just 484 votes, with the Tories out of contention on less than 15% of the poll. 2008-09-28T12:37+00:00 http://www.lloydgeorgesociety.org.uk/news/000067/friends_of_the_lloyd_george_museumcyfeillion_amgueddfa_lloyd_george__rhaglen_20082009_programme.html The Friends of the Lloyd George Museum exist to promote the interests of the Lloyd George museum in Llanystumdwy by: 2008-09-20T12:19+00:00 http://www.lloydgeorgesociety.org.uk/news/000066/more_about_the_pensions_act_as_an_post_about_to_unveil_their_new_stamp.html An article by Ronan O'Brien in today's Irish Times gives some more background to the introduction of the 1908 Pensions Act by the Liberal government of H H Asquith. However O'Brien rightly makes the point that many politicians of different parties supported the idea of the state pension and gives credit to the former Liberal turned Unionist Joseph Chamberlain as the first front-line politician to come out in favour of it in the 1890s. Old age pensions figured prominently in the electoral addresses of Unionist, rather than Liberal, candidates in the 1895 election, which saw the Unionists returned to power. The Conservatives did not however find the time or resources to introduce the measure between 1895 and 1905 and it fell to the Liberals to bring in the 1908 Act. 2008-09-16T12:56+00:00 http://www.lloydgeorgesociety.org.uk/news/000065/cabinet_meets_outside_london__lloyd_george_connection.html When Gordon Brown's Cabinet met in Birmingham on 8 September it was widely reported that this was for the first time since 1921, when Lloyd George was still prime minister. A report in Tuesday's Times newspaper has thrown doubt on that claim but contains some interesting background to the 1921 meeting in Inverness, called as Anglo-Irish relations were at an unusually delicate stage. 2008-09-11T12:21+00:00 http://www.lloydgeorgesociety.org.uk/news/000064/ireland_to_issue_pensions_postage_stamp.html The Press Association has today reported that the Postal Service in the Republic of Ireland, An Post, is to issue a commemorative stamp in September to mark the 100th anniversary of the old age pension. 2008-08-29T11:58+00:00 http://www.lloydgeorgesociety.org.uk/news/000063/lloyd_george_earldom__new_light_thrown_by_recent_article.html Historians and followers of Lloyd George's career alike have often wondered what provoked the Welsh Wizard to accept a peerage towards the end of his life, a life in which LG had often battled against the House of Lords. In the 1930s, LG had criticised public figures like Ernest Bevin who was tipped for a peerage and he extolled the great radicals of the past such as Gladstone, Bright, Cobden and Joseph Chamberlain who all refused to take seats in the House of Lords. It was certainly against the wishes of his daughter Megan and other members of the LG family. A common explanation has been that his new wife, Frances Stevenson, wished to become a Countess but no documents supporting this theory have ever come to light. 2008-08-18T09:00+00:00 http://www.lloydgeorgesociety.org.uk/news/000062/lloyd_george_statue_donated_to_llanystumdwy_museum.html A small replica of the statue of David Lloyd George which was unveiled in Parliament Square, Westminster last year has been donated to the Lloyd George Museum in his home village of Llanystumdwy and as from 12 August 2008 will be on permanent display there. 2008-08-14T18:54+00:00 http://www.lloydgeorgesociety.org.uk/news/000061/lloyd_george_book_is_number_1_with_mps.html A report in today's Scotsman newspaper reveals that Ffion Hague's biography of Lloyd George and the women in his life, "The Pain and the Privilege" has been voted joint top summer reading in a poll of 150 Members of Parliament carried out by the booksellers, Waterstones. 2008-08-11T11:51+00:00 http://www.lloydgeorgesociety.org.uk/news/000060/ffion_hagues_the_pain_and_the_privilege__book_signing_details.html Ffion Hague will be signing copies of her book 'Lloyd George - The Pain & The Privilege' at "The Bookshop" 33 High St. Mold, Flintshire. Saturday 13th September 2008 @ 11.30 a.m. 2008-08-06T18:09+00:00 http://www.lloydgeorgesociety.org.uk/news/000059/100_years_of_the_state_pension__thanks_to_lloyd_george.html 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 1908. 2008-08-03T20:37+00:00 http://www.lloydgeorgesociety.org.uk/news/000058/do_want_to_own_a_piece_of_lloyd_george_history.html 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 sold as having belonged to the former Liberal prime minister. 2008-08-01T13:58+00:00