In the Mansion House speech, Lloyd George warned an expansionist Germany not to interfere with British interests. He asserted that Britain would not stand by and let its power and prestige be ...

Simon Heffer’s books include Sing As We Go: Britain Between the Wars. Rivals in the Storm: How Lloyd George Seized Power, Won ...

David Lloyd George (Britain), Woodrow Wilson (the US), Georges Clemenceau (France) and Vittorio Orlando (Italy) became known as the Big Four after meeting, and leading, at the Paris Peace ...

and hear the words of Chancellor of the Exchequer Lloyd George on realising the threat had been ignored and the country was at war. Britain feared the ambitions of Kaiser Wilhelm II and German ...

Lloyd George knew there just weren’t enough workers to produce what the troops needed. He’d have to mobilise a new workforce, a new industrial army, the women of Britain. Women in the ...