David Lloyd George/Bibliography

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Biographies

• Creiger, Don M. Bounder from Wales: Lloyd George's Career Before the First World War. U of Missouri Press, 1976.
• Fry, Michael G. Lloyd George and Foreign Policy. Vol. 1: The Education of a Statesman: 1890-1916. Montreal, 1977.
• Gilbert, Bentley Brinkerhoff. David Lloyd George: A Political Life: The Architect of Change 1863-1912 (1987); David Lloyd George: A Political Life: Organizer of Victory, 1912-1916 (1992). standard scholarly biography
• Grigg, John. Lloyd George 4 vols. (1973-2002), Whitbread Award winner; the most detailed biography; ends Nov. 1918
  • The young Lloyd George (1973); Lloyd George: the people's champion, 1902–1911 (1978); Lloyd George: from peace to war, 1912–1916 (1985); Lloyd George: war leader, 1916–1918 (2002)
• Jones, Thomas. Lloyd George 1951. short and well-regarded online edition
• Morgan, Kenneth O. "George, David Lloyd, first Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor (1863–1945)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 2004; online
• Morgan, Kenneth O. Lloyd George. 1974.
• Owen, Frank. Tempestuous Journey: Lloyd George, His Life and Times. 1955. popular history online edition
• Rowland, Peter. David Lloyd George: A Biography (1976), 872pp, detailed but lacking interpretation or synthesis
• Taylor, A. J. P. Lloyd George: rise and fall (1961)

Specialized studies

• Adams, R.J.Q. Arms and the Wizard: Lloyd George and the Ministry of Munitions. 1978.
• Adams, R. J. Q. "Andrew Bonar Law and the Fall of the Asquith Coalition: the December 1916 Cabinet Crisis." Canadian Journal of History 1997 32(2): 185-200. Issn: 0008-4107 Fulltext: in Ebsco
• Adams, W.S. "Lloyd George and the Labour Movement," Past and Present No. 3 (Feb., 1953), pp. 55-64 in JSTOR
• Lord Beaverbrook. The Decline and Fall of Lloyd George 1963 online edition
• Bennett, G.H. "Lloyd George, Curzon and the Control of British Foreign Policy 1919-22," The Australian Journal of Politics and History, Vol. 45, 1999 online edition
• Cregier, Don M. "The Murder of the British Liberal Party," The History Teacher Vol. 3, No. 4 (May, 1970), pp. 27-36 online edition, blames Asquith, Lloyd George and the voters
• Ehrman, John. "Lloyd George and Churchill as War Ministers," Transactions of the Royal Historical Society 5th Ser., Vol. 11 (1961), pp. 101-115 in JSTOR
• Fair, John D. "Politicians, Historians, and the War: A Reassessment of the Political Crisis of December 1916," The Journal of Modern History, Vol. 49, No. 3, On Demand Supplement. (Sep., 1977), pp. D1329-D1343. in JSTOR
• French, David. The Strategy of the Lloyd George Coalition, 1916-1918. Oxford University Press, 1995 online edition
• Fry, Michael. "Political Change in Britain, August 1914 to December 1916: Lloyd George Replaces Asquith: The Issues Underlying the Drama," The Historical Journal Vol. 31, No. 3 (Sep., 1988), pp. 609-627 in JSTOR
• Gilbert, Bentley B. "David Lloyd George: The Reform of British Landholding and the Budget of 1914," The Historical Journal, Vol. 21, No. 1 (Mar., 1978), pp. 117-141 in JSTOR
• Gilbert, Bentley Brinkerhoff. "David Lloyd George: Land, The Budget, and Social Reform," The American Historical Review Vol. 81, No. 5 (Dec., 1976), pp. 1058-1066 in JSTOR
• Hankey, Lord. The Supreme Command, 1914-1918. 2 vols. 1961.
• Havighurst, Alfred F. Twentieth-Century Britain. 1966. standard survey online edition
• Hazlehurst, Cameron. "Asquith as Prime Minister, 1908-1916," The English Historical Review Vol. 85, No. 336 (Jul., 1970), pp. 502-531 in JSTOR
• Kernek, Sterling J. "Distractions of Peace during War: The Lloyd George Government's Reactions to Woodrow Wilson, December, 1916-November, 1918," Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, New Ser., Vol. 65, No. 2 (1975), pp. 1-117 online edition
• Keynes, John Maynard, The Economic Consequences of the Peace (1920) famous criticism by leading economist full text online
• Lentin, Antony. Lloyd George and the Lost Peace: From Versailles to Hitler, 1919-1940 (2001)
  • Lentin, Antony. "Maynard Keynes and the ‘Bamboozlement’ of Woodrow Wilson: What Really Happened at Paris?" Diplomacy & Statecraft, Dec 2004, Vol. 15 Issue 4, pp 725-763, explains why veterans pensions were included in reparations
• Macmillan, Margaret. Peacemakers: The Paris Conference of 1919 and Its Attempt to End War (2002), 538pp; a standard scholarly history of Versailles treaty
• Macmillan, Margaret, and Richard Holbrooke. Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World (2003) influential study excerpt and text search
• Millman, Brock. "A Counsel of Despair: British Strategy and War Aims, 1917-18." Journal of Contemporary History2001 36(2): 241-270. Issn: 0022-0094 in Jstor
• Millman, Brock. "The Lloyd George War Government, 1917-18" Totalitarian Movements & Political Religions Winter 2002, Vol. 3 Issue 3, p 99-127; sees proto-fascism
• Morgan, Kenneth O. "Lloyd George's Premiership: A Study in 'Prime Ministerial Government.'" The Historical Journal 13 (March 1970). in JSTOR
• Morgan, Kenneth O. "Lloyd George and Germany." Historical Journal 1996 39(3): 755-766. Issn: 0018-246xin Jstor
• Mowat, Sharles Loch. Britain between the Wars, 1918-1940 (1955) 694 pp; online edition
• Murray, Bruce K. "The Politics of the 'People's Budget'", The Historical Journal Vol. 16, No. 3 (Sep., 1973), pp. 555-570 in JSTOR
• Owen, Frank. Tempestuous Journey: Lloyd George, His Life and Times 1955.
• Powell, David. British Politics, 1910-1935: The Crisis of the Party System 2004
• Taylor, A. J. P. English History, 1914-1945. 1965, standard political history of the era
• Taylor, A. J. P., ed., Lloyd George: twelve essays (1971). essays by scholars
• Turner, John. British Politics and the Great War: Coalition and Conflict, 1915-1918 (1992)
• Wilson, Trevor. The Downfall of the Liberal Party 1914-1935. 1966.
• Wilson, Trevor. "The Coupon and the British General Election of 1918," The Journal of Modern History Vol. 36, No. 1 (Mar., 1964), pp. 28-42 in JSTOR
• Woodward, David R. Lloyd George and the Generals F. Cass, 2004. online edition
• Woodward, Sir Llewellyn. Great Britain and the War of 1914-1918. 1967.
• Wrigley, Chris. David Lloyd George and the British Labour Movement: Peace and War (1976)

Primary sources

• Cross, Colin, ed. Life with Lloyd George: The Diary of A.J. Sylvester 1975.
• Lloyd George, David. The Truth About the Peace Treaties. 2 vols. (1938) vol 1 online
• Lloyd George, David, War Memoirs of David Lloyd George. 2 vols. (1933). An unusually long, detailed and candid record.
• Lloyd George, David. The Great Crusade: Extracts from Speeches Delivered During the War (1918) 307 pages online edition
  • George W. Egerton, "The Lloyd George War Memoirs: A Study in the Politics of Memory," The Journal of Modern History Vol. 60, No. 1 (Mar., 1988), pp. 55-94 in JSTOR
• Morgan, Kenneth O. ed. Lloyd George Family Letters, 1885-1936. 1973.
• Taylor, A. J. P. ed. My Darling Pussy: The Letters of Lloyd George and Frances Stevenson. 1975.
• Taylor, A. J. P. ed. Lloyd George: A Diary by Frances Stevenson. 1971.