1929-1956
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Liberal civil war: Denbigh, Oldham and the 1935 election
The story of two constituencies where Liberals and Liberal Nationals fought each other at the 1935 general election.
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1945-1964: The gory, gory years
The survival and development of the Liberal Party in the post-war era.
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Biography: Archie Macdonald
The career of Archie Macdonald, Liberal MP for Roxburgh and Selkirk 1950-51.
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Archibald Sinclair: Liberal anti-appeaser
The Liberal leader’s role as a critic of appeasement.
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At the heart of the party
Biography of Raymond Jones (1883-1948), constituency organiser, election agent and parliamentary candidate.
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Megan Lloyd George, 1902-1966
Megan Lloyd George was born at Criccieth, Caernarfonshire, on 22 April 1902, the third daughter and fifth child of David Lloyd George and his wife Margaret. Until the age of four she could speak only Welsh. She was educated privately, in part by Frances Stevenson, who became her father’s mistress and in 1943 his second wife,…
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Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965
Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill was born in Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire on 30 November 1874, the son of Lord Randolph Churchill and his American wife, Jennie. He was educated at Harrow and Sandhurst, and embarked on a military career which took him to India and Africa. He also began to make a name for himself as…
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David Lloyd-George (Earl Lloyd-George and Viscount Gwynedd), 1863-1945
Lloyd George, according to Winston Churchill after his death, ‘was the greatest Welshman which that unconquerable race has produced since the age of the Tudors’. Yet he was born in England at 5 New York Place, Robert Street, Chorlton-upon-Medlock, Manchester on 17 January 1863. His parents, William George, a school teacher, and Elizabeth Lloyd, a…
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Clement Davies, 1884-1962
Edward Clement Davies was born on 19 February 1884 at Llanfyllin, Montgomeryshire, the youngest of the seven children of Moses Davies, an auctioneer, and Elizabeth Margaret Jones. He was educated at the local primary school, won a scholarship to Llanfyllin County School in 1897 and proceeded to Trinity College, Cambridge, where he became senior foundation…