Tomorrow the Library will be launching a new book on the life and work of David Lloyd George, ‘David Lloyd George and Welsh Liberalism’, in the company of Ffion Hague.
Dr John Graham Jones, author of this book, has spent more than thirty years studying Lloyd George, making widespread use of the seven major Lloyd George archives and other source materials deposited at the National Library of Wales where he has worked as an archivist since 1980. Presently he is Head of the Welsh Political Archive at the Library.
These seminal revisionist articles, now re-published in book format, (David Lloyd George and Welsh Liberalism. ISBN: 978-1-86225-084-0) cast new light on many of the key events and themes in Lloyd George’s unique life and career. They also examine many of his political contemporaries like Lord Davies of Llandinam, Sir Alfred Mond, C. F. G. Masterman and W. Llewelyn Williams, and his two politician children, Lady Megan Lloyd George and Major Gwilym Lloyd-George, later Viscount Tenby, who also became political figures of some consequence in their own right.
The National Library of Wales has digitised parts of the David Lloyd George archive. See for example the diary for 1886 which contains an account of his personal life and his political career, and also the 3292 letters from David Lloyd George to his brother William George, from 1886 to 1943. There is also an online exhibition of photographs relating to David Lloyd George on the NLW website.
For further information about the Welsh Political Archive, its newsletter and annual lectures see the WPA website.
Nia Mai Daniel