Duncan Hill
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LibDem Secretary of Cymdeithas Lloyd George - Lloyd George Society: https://lloydgeorgesociety.org.uk/ Live in: Brighton Grew up: Cornwall Blog: https://ramblingducky.blogspot.com/
"The size of a large film studio" Somewhere between a blue whale and a Belgium. #TheFilmCrowd
They were all eventually killed by a fatal, virulent disease caught from an unclean telephone. #TheFilmCrowd
"The first with a living creature, Laika the dog." And then the first with a dead creature, Laika the dog. #TheFilmCrowd
We had a record player like the one on the shelf behind him #TheFilmCrowd
"And that was the new EP by Random Cacaphony ... #TheFilmCrowd
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That owl got a lot of post-synch work in the 70s. #TheFilmCrowd
I remember when atoms used to look like that. #TheFilmCrowd
Have you checked out our new series yet? In the latest series of Churchill: The Finest Half Hour, Warren Dockter and I draw on my book "Rivals for Greatness" to explore the long and often turbulent relationship between Winston Churchill and David Lloyd George. open.spotify.com/episode/71gG...
Series 12: Churchill and Lloyd George - Rivals for Greatness
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Hi all who do intel history. Does anyone know the TNA reference for the British Cabinet's Secret Service Committee meeting, chaired by Lord Curzon, that led to the founding of GC&CS on 1 November 1919?
"Blessed are the cheesemakers" - as we see from the biography of one of the clergy at Crediton Parish Church. www.creditonparishchurch.org.uk/about-2/cler...
I refuse to buy butter or marg in 200 gramme blocks. It's a swizz and a cheat and a swindle.
Dire Straits onSky Arts When you can fall for chains of silver you can fall for chains of gold You can fall for pretty strangers and the promises they hold You promised me everything, you promised me thick and thin, yeah Now you just say "oh, Romeo, yeah, you know I used to have a scene with him"
Liberal England: The uncanny on the western front in the first world war The LRB reviews A Supernatural War: Magic, Divination and Faith during the First World War by Owen Davies. liberalengland.blogspot.com/2026/08/the-...
Really excited to hear about this - new podcast from Professor Richard Toye and Dr Warren Dockter "Churchill and Lloyd George: Rivals for Greatness". lloydgeorgesociety.org.uk/2026/08/07/c... #DavidLloydGeorge #WinstonChurchill #LiberalHistory
Churchill and Lloyd George: Rivals for Greatness - new podcast series - Cymdeithas Lloyd George / The Lloyd George Society
Professor Richard Toye, author of the classic Churchill and Lloyd George: Rivals for Greatness, and author and historian Dr Warren Dockter, have announced a major new series of their podcast…
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J. Bodvan Anwyl, lexicographer, editor, author, Congregational minister, born this day 1875 #OTD #OnThisDay Edited "Spurrell's School's Dictionary: Welsh-English & English-Welsh" with a foreword by David Lloyd George.
Michael Foot, essayist, biographer, politician, born this day 1913. #OTD #OnThisDay Essays on David Lloyd George and Tony Benn in "Loyalists and Loners" are well worth reading. "Debts of Honour" also vv good, and "Isaac Foot: A Westcountry Boy - Apostle of England", edited with Alison Highet.
Can you guess who the first serving PM to receive the Legion of Honour was? lloydgeorgesociety.org.uk/2026/07/22/t...
The first serving PM to receive the Legion of Honour? - Cymdeithas Lloyd George / The Lloyd George Society
The BBC and The Guardian have both recently reported that Sir Keir Starmer was the first serving British PM to receive the French Legion of Honour. Both are wrong. David Lloyd George was invested as…
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21 July was eventful in David Lloyd George’s political life: 1911: Mansion House speech 1919: Post-war parliamentary speeches 1921: Anglo-Irish peace talks Barnthorn author Paul Spackman tells his story here: www.barnthornpublishing.co.uk/team/paul-sp... #DavidLloydGeorge #OnThisDay #HistoryBooks
"Winston and David" on stage! lloydgeorgesociety.org.uk/2026/07/21/w...
"Winston and David" on stage - Cymdeithas Lloyd George / The Lloyd George Society
Robert Lloyd George’s play Winston and David, a sell-out hit at Edinburgh in 2022, will have a limited run at London’s Tabard Theatre in Chiswick this August. The play is performed by Maverick…
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Mary Williams, author, born this day 1903. By sheer coincidence I just today finished reading her "Chill Company - Ghost Stories from Cornwall" #OTD #OnThisDay
Gatwick Airport station seems to have been designed by someone with a grudge against humanity.