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16 de may. de 2024 · David Lloyd George and his wife, Margaret, with their daughter Megan. As a young man, Lloyd George had the romantic good looks that ensured success with women. After numerous love affairs, he was married in 1888 to Margaret Owen, who bore him two sons and three daughters.
Hace 6 días · A political mistress and her legacy of love. My grandmother sometimes spoke to me about the past, knowing that I planned to study history at university. Her mother had brought her up to expect that after a short period of respectable employment she would marry.
- Ruth Longford
14 de may. de 2024 · The storms of war and multiple crises provide the setting for the book, but Lloyd George’s story is defined by the rivalries that dominate his life. He seized power from his old friend Herbert Asquith, Lloyd George breaks with many of his old liberal allies over his vigorous methods to win the war.
Hace 2 días · Lloyd George, now party leader, began a drive to produce coherent policies on many key issues of the day. In the 1929 general election , he made a final bid to return the Liberals to the political mainstream, with an ambitious programme of state stimulation of the economy called We Can Conquer Unemployment! , largely written for him ...
Hace 3 días · 'Heads I win, tails you lose' was always Lloyd George's watchword and Lentin's chapter on 'The Treaty that Never Was: Lloyd George and the French Connection' offers an excellent example of the spin of a Lloyd George coin.
11 de may. de 2024 · We discuss key transitional moments from post war affluence in the 1950s and 1960s, the assault on organised labour in the 1970s and the social transformations brought about by Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s, all the way to Brexit and the current moment.
Hace 2 días · Lloyd George tried to use force at Chanak but lost support and was forced to step down as prime minister. Curzon remained as foreign secretary and helped tie down loose ends in the Middle East at the peace conference at Lausanne.
