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20 Most Recent News Stories
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Fri 14th Nov 2008
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.
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Wed 12th Nov 2008
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.
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Wed 22nd Oct 2008
The next weekend school will be held at the Commodore Hotel, Llandrindod Wells between 20th and 22nd February 2009.
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Tue 30th Sep 2008
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.
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Sun 28th Sep 2008
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.
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Sat 20th Sep 2008
The Friends of the Lloyd George Museum exist to promote the interests of the Lloyd George museum in Llanystumdwy by:
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Tue 16th Sep 2008
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.
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Thu 11th Sep 2008
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.
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Fri 29th Aug 2008
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.
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Mon 18th Aug 2008
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.
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Thu 14th Aug 2008
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.
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Mon 11th Aug 2008
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.
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Wed 6th Aug 2008
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.
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Sun 3rd Aug 2008
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.
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Fri 1st Aug 2008
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.
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Sun 20th Jul 2008
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.
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Thu 17th Jul 2008
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.
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Sat 12th Jul 2008
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.
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Fri 4th Jul 2008
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 into a new Centre Party, with the hope of attracting Independent Liberals to join. He continued his coalition with the Conservatives into post-war government from 1918-1922. As a younger politician in north Wales, he sought to build a coalition of radical Liberals, labour and Welsh nationalists in a re-launched Cymru Fydd. LG was so much a collaborationist in politics that some critical commentators used this to predict he would be the British Petain in the event of a successful invasion of Britain by Hitler.
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Thu 19th Jun 2008
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.
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