Places to see in ( Edinburgh - UK ) Calton Hill
Places to see in ( Edinburgh - UK ) Calton Hill
Calton Hill ( the Calton Hill ), is a hill in central Edinburgh, Scotland, situated beyond the east end of Princes Street and included in the city's UNESCO World Heritage Site. Views of, and from, the Calton Hill are often used in photographs and paintings of the city.
Calton Hill is the headquarters of the Scottish Government, which is based at St Andrew's House, on the steep southern slope of the hill; with the Scottish Parliament Building, and other notable buildings, for example Holyrood Palace, lying near the foot of the hill. The hill is also the location of several iconic monuments and buildings: the National Monument, the Nelson Monument, the Dugald Stewart Monument, the old Royal High School, the Robert Burns Monument, the Political Martyrs' Monument and the City Observatory.
By his charter of 1456, James II granted the community of Edinburgh the valley and the low ground between Calton Hill and Greenside for performing tournaments, sports and other warlike deeds. The village of Calton was situated at the bottom of the ravine at the western end of Calton Hill (hence its earlier name of Craigend), on the road from Leith Wynd in Edinburgh and North Back of Canongate to Leith Walk and also to Broughton and thence the Western Road to Leith. In the village, the street was variously known as St. Ninian's Row or Low Calton. Many of the old buildings here were demolished at the time of the Waterloo Place and Regent Bridge development, which bridged the ravine, from 1816. The remaining old village houses of the Low Calton were removed in the 1970s.
Calton was in South Leith Parish and Calton people went to church in Leith. The churchyard there was inconveniently situated for burials from Calton and, in 1718, the Society bought a half acre of land at a cost of £1013 from Lord Balmerino for use as a burial ground. This became known as Old Calton Burial Ground. Permission was granted for an access road, originally known as High Calton and now the street called Calton Hill, up the steep hill from the village to the burial ground. The group of 1760s houses near the top of this street are all that remain of the old village.
Calton Hill is the venue for a number of events throughout the year. The largest of these is the Beltane Fire Festival held on 30 April each year, attended by over 12,000 people. The Dussehra Hindu Festival also takes place on Calton Hill near the beginning of October each year.
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Edinburgh's disgrace! Calton Hill and the Scott Monument
Nicky Brooke talks about her favourite monuments in the city including those on Calton Hill (including Edinburgh's Disgrace) and also the Victorian Gothic, Scott Monument, built between 1840 and 1845 to commemorate the great Edinburgh author, Sir Walter Scott.
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Denver's Oldest Cemetery - Riverside Cemetery is the longest continually operating cemetery in Denver, and one of the most significant historical resources in Colorado. Noting the importance of the 77-acre site, the cemetery was designated a National Historic District in 1992. Now surrounded by the gritscape of a disparate industrial district, partly in the City and County of Denver and partly in Adams County, the cemetery is in a state of rapid decline.
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Riverside Cemetery occupies a 77-acre site between Brighton Boulevard and the east bank of the South Platte River, approximately 4 miles down stream from downtown Denver, Colorado.
The majority of Riverside Cemetery lies within Adams County, Colorado, however the rest of the cemetery, the cemeteries' entrance and administration building, are within the City and County of Denver.
Riverside Cemetery originally was the property of the Riverside Cemetery Association from its founding in 1876 until 1900 when the association's assets were transferred to the Fairmount Cemetery Association (presently known as Fairmount Cemetery Company). In late 2000, Fairmount Cemetery Company along with members of the community founded the Fairmount Heritage Foundation to be a educational resource for the community and to protect and preserve the heritage of both the company's properties: Riverside Cemetery and Fairmount Cemetery.
The volunteers of this foundation staff the Riverside Cemetery Office on Tuesdays and Thursdays and organize events and preservation projects for the cemeteries.
History
When first opened, the graveyard's secluded location on the banks of the South Platte River and the surrounding greenery made it a popular choice for wealthy families; the opening of the Burlington Railroad in the 1890s changed this, spurring industrial growth in the neighborhood, and some families chose to have their relatives' remains exhumed and reburied elsewhere. Prominent people continued to be interred there, with ornate headstones to mark their graves; however, the proportion of unmarked graves rose dramatically, as counties from all over the state sent the bodies of their impoverished dead citizens there.
Riverside remained the area's most significant cemetery until the mid-20th century, and retains importance for scholars studying in the early history of Denver, as the city kept no systematic death records until 1910.
Today, the neighborhood has become a largely industrial area, surrounded by a gas station, smokestacks, train tracks, and an industrial park, a few blocks from Interstate 70. It remains a minor tourist attraction; in 2001, 3,000 people went on walking tours of the site.
The cemetery's final grave site was assigned in July 2005; the management company, Fairmount Cemetery Inc., indicated that they would not accept further burials after that, because they were losing money on each sale.
They have also stopped watering and cut back drastically on services, claiming that their $2.1 million endowment, which generated roughly $62,000 per year in interest, was not enough to water the property and properly maintain all the graves; their records show that they lost $159,000 in 2003. They still employ two groundskeepers to pick up trash, but have had to refuse offers of maintenance help from volunteers due to liability issues. In 2005, Fairmount approached the city government and requested they take over operation of the cemetery; however, the city were forced to decline due to lack of funds.
Local residents, concerned by the dying trees and grass and generally poor state of the cemetery, formed a group, Friends of Historic Riverside Cemetery, to bring public attention to the issue. They requested the assistance of a local Orthodox church whose founders are buried there; Fairmount indicated that they would be willing to transfer the endowment and operations of the cemetery to a group that could provide an additional trust of $1 million to cover operating expenses.
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Autumn View Necropolis Glasgow Scotland
Tour Scotland video of an Autumn view of the Necropolis on visit to Glasgow. This is a Victorian cemetery in Glasgow, Scotland. It is on a low but very prominent hill to the east of Glasgow Cathedral, St. Mungo's Cathedral. Fifty thousand individuals have been buried here. Typically for the period only a small percentage are named on monuments and not every grave has a stone. Approximately 3500 monuments exist here.
Calton Hill
Calton Hill, is a hill in central Edinburgh, Scotland, situated beyond the east end of Princes Street and included in the city's UNESCO World Heritage Site. Views of, and from, the hill are often used in photographs and paintings of the city.
Calton Hill is the headquarters of the Scottish Government, which is based at St Andrew's House, on the steep southern slope of the hill; with the Scottish Parliament Building, and other notable buildings, for example Holyrood Palace, lying near the foot of the hill. The hill is also the location of several iconic monuments and buildings: the National Monument, the Nelson Monument, the Dugald Stewart Monument, the old Royal High School, the Robert Burns Monument, the Political Martyrs' Monument and the City Observatory.
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Artist-in-Residence Welcome Event: Ocean Vuong
“What is a country but a borderless sentence, a life?…What is a country but a life sentence?” asks Little Dog, the narrator of Ocean Vuong’s highly anticipated, critically acclaimed debut novel On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous (Penguin Press, 2019). On Wednesday, October 2, the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU was honored to welcome award-winning writer and poet Vuong as its 2019-20 Artist-in-Residence.
Vuong read from his breathtaking novel—a letter from a son to his mother that reveals the intergenerational impact and ongoing haunting of war, violence, and forced displacement. He was joined in conversation by friends and special guests Mahogany L. Browne (Black Girl Magic), Alexander Chee (How to Write an Autobiographical Novel), Monica Sok (A Nail the Evening Hangs On), and NYU Gallatin professor Sinan Antoon (The Book of Collateral Damage).
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Apartment
An apartment (in American English) or a flat (in British English) is a self-contained housing unit (a type of residential real estate) that occupies only part of a building. Such a building may be called an apartment building, apartment house (in American English), block of flats, tower block, high-rise or, occasionally mansion block (in British English), especially if it consists of many apartments for rent. In Scotland it is often called a tenement, which has a pejorative connotation elsewhere. Apartments may be owned by an owner/occupier by leasehold tenure or rented by tenants (two types of housing tenure).
The term apartment is favored in North America (although flat is used in the case of a unit which is part of a house containing two or three units, typically one to a floor) and also is the preferred term in Ireland. The term flat is commonly, but not exclusively, used in the United Kingdom, Singapore, Hong Kong and most Commonwealth nations.
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George V
George V (George Frederick Ernest Albert; 3 June 1865 -- 20 January 1936) was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India, from 6 May 1910 until his death in 1936.
George was a grandson of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert and the first cousin of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany. From 1877 to 1891, he served in the Royal Navy. On the death of Victoria in 1901, George's father became King Edward VII, and George was made Prince of Wales. On his father's death in 1910, he succeeded as King-Emperor of the British Empire. He was the only Emperor of India to be present at his own Delhi Durbar.
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Waterstones
Waterstones, formerly Waterstone's, is a British book retailer that operates 275 stores and employs around 3,500 staff in the UK and Europe as of February 2014. Established in 1982 by Tim Waterstone, after whom the company was named, the bookseller expanded rapidly until being sold in 1993 to W H Smith. Bought again in 1998 by Waterstone, EMI & Advent International, the company was taken under the umbrella of HMV Group, which later merged the Dillons and Ottakar's brands into the company.
Following several poor sets of results for the group, HMV put the chain up for sale. In May 2011, it was announced that A&NN Capital Fund Management, owned by Russian billionaire Alexander Mamut, had bought the chain and appointed James Daunt as managing director.
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George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston | Wikipedia audio article
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George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston
00:01:40 1 Early life
00:05:08 2 Early political career
00:05:59 3 Asian travels and writings
00:09:00 4 First marriage (1895–1906)
00:10:26 5 Viceroy of India (1899–1905)
00:13:13 5.1 Indian Army
00:15:01 5.2 Indian famine
00:16:05 6 Return to Britain
00:17:16 7 House of Lords
00:18:27 8 First World War
00:20:45 9 Second marriage (1917)
00:22:18 10 Foreign Secretary (1919–24)
00:22:30 10.1 Relations with Lloyd George
00:24:17 10.2 Policy under Lloyd George
00:28:35 10.3 Under Bonar Law
00:29:39 11 Passed over for Prime Minister, 1923
00:31:22 12 Death
00:32:27 13 Titles
00:33:52 14 Styles of address
00:35:12 15 Assessment
00:37:32 16 Legacy
00:38:25 17 Notes
00:38:34 18 Bibliography
00:38:43 18.1 George Nathaniel Curzon's writings
00:42:31 18.2 Secondary sources
00:47:34 19 External links
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George Nathaniel Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, (11 January 1859–20 March 1925), who was styled as Lord Curzon of Kedleston between 1898 and 1911, and as Earl Curzon of Kedleston between 1911 and 1921, and was known commonly as Lord Curzon, was a British Conservative statesman, who served as Viceroy of India, from 1899 to 1905, during which time he created the territory of Eastern Bengal and Assam, and as Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, from 1919 to 1924.
Despite his illustrious success as both Viceroy and Foreign Secretary, especially at the recent Conference of Lausanne, in 1923 Curzon was denied the office of Prime Minister in favour of Stanley Baldwin. This is partly because Curzon was a member of the House of Lords and because Lord Davidson—to whom Baldwin was loyal—and Sir Charles Waterhouse falsely claimed to Lord Stamfordham that the resigned Prime Minister Bonar Law had recommended that George V appoint Baldwin, not Curzon, as his successor.Curzon's character polarised opinion amongst his contemporaries: Winston Churchill said that Curzon sow[ed] gratitude and resentment along his path with equally lavish hands. He quarreled continually, and his arrogance and inflexibility provoked the enmity of some in government. His biographers unanimously contend that the extent of his efforts for the British Empire was unrecompensed by the polity subsequent to his retirement from the office of Viceroy of India. Leonard Mosley described him as 'a devoted and indefatigable public servant, dedicated to the idea of Empire'.
Napoleon III
Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte was the first President of the French Second Republic and, as Napoleon III, the Emperor of the Second French Empire. He was the nephew and heir of Napoleon I. He was the first President of France to be elected by a direct popular vote. However, when he was blocked by the Constitution and Parliament from running for a second term, he organized a coup d'état in 1851, and then took the throne as Napoleon III on 2 December 1852, the forty-eighth anniversary of Napoleon I's coronation.
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Plan 9 from Outer Space | Wikipedia audio article
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00:01:56 1 Plot
00:07:56 2 Cast
00:09:21 3 Production
00:09:31 3.1 Background and genre
00:11:29 3.2 The introduction and its origins
00:15:06 3.3 Government conspiracy
00:15:51 3.4 Message from the aliens
00:16:24 4 Casting
00:19:02 4.1 Bela Lugosi's last film
00:22:03 5 Reception
00:22:13 5.1 Release
00:27:25 5.2 Music
00:28:14 5.3 Revisions
00:30:56 6 Documentaries
00:32:14 7 Home video
00:33:58 8 Remakes
00:35:08 9 Legacy
00:41:30 10 See also
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Plan 9 from Outer Space is a 1959 American independent black-and-white science fiction horror film, written, produced, directed, and edited by Ed Wood, that stars Gregory Walcott, Mona McKinnon, Tor Johnson, and Vampira (Maila Nurmi), and is narrated by Criswell. The film also posthumously bills Bela Lugosi as a star (silent footage of the actor had actually been shot by Wood for another, unfinished film just prior to Lugosi's death in August 1956). Plan 9 from Outer Space was released theatrically in 1959 by Distributors Corporation of America (then credited as Valiant Pictures).
The storyline concerns extraterrestrials who are seeking to stop humanity from creating a doomsday weapon that could destroy the universe. The aliens implement Plan 9, a scheme to resurrect the Earth's dead, referred to as ghouls. By causing chaos, the aliens hope the crisis will force humanity to listen to them. If not, the aliens will then destroy mankind with armies of the undead. The film was originally developed under the title Grave Robbers from Outer Space, but its financial backers objected to this title, which they saw as being sacrilegious, and it was retitled Plan 9 from Outer Space prior to production.
Plan 9 from Outer Space played on television in relative obscurity until 1980, when authors Harry Medved and Michael Medved dubbed it the worst film ever made in their book The Golden Turkey Awards. Wood and his film were posthumously given two Golden Turkey Awards for Worst Director Ever and Worst Film. It has since been retroactively described as The epitome of so-bad-it's-good cinema and has gained a cult following.
Charles I of England | Wikipedia audio article
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Charles I (19 November 1600 – 30 January 1649) was the monarch over the three kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 27 March 1625 until his execution in 1649.
Charles was born into the House of Stuart as the second son of King James VI of Scotland, but after his father inherited the English throne in 1603, he moved to England, where he spent much of the rest of his life. He became heir apparent to the thrones of England, Scotland and Ireland on the death of his elder brother, Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales, in 1612. An unsuccessful and unpopular attempt to marry him to the Spanish Habsburg princess Maria Anna culminated in an eight-month visit to Spain in 1623 that demonstrated the futility of the marriage negotiations. Two years later, he married the Bourbon princess Henrietta Maria of France instead.
After his succession, Charles quarrelled with the Parliament of England, which sought to curb his royal prerogative. Charles believed in the divine right of kings and thought he could govern according to his own conscience. Many of his subjects opposed his policies, in particular the levying of taxes without parliamentary consent, and perceived his actions as those of a tyrannical absolute monarch. His religious policies, coupled with his marriage to a Roman Catholic, generated the antipathy and mistrust of Reformed groups such as the English Puritans and Scottish Covenanters, who thought his views were too Catholic. He supported high church Anglican ecclesiastics, such as Richard Montagu and William Laud, and failed to aid Protestant forces successfully during the Thirty Years' War. His attempts to force the Church of Scotland to adopt high Anglican practices led to the Bishops' Wars, strengthened the position of the English and Scottish parliaments and helped precipitate his own downfall.
From 1642, Charles fought the armies of the English and Scottish parliaments in the English Civil War. After his defeat in 1645, he surrendered to a Scottish force that eventually handed him over to the English Parliament. Charles refused to accept his captors' demands for a constitutional monarchy, and temporarily escaped captivity in November 1647. Re-imprisoned on the Isle of Wight, Charles forged an alliance with Scotland, but by the end of 1648 Oliver Cromwell's New Model Army had consolidated its control over England. Charles was tried, convicted, and executed for high treason in January 1649. The monarchy was abolished and a republic called the Commonwealth of England was declared. The monarchy was restored to Charles's son, Charles II, in 1660.
Forensic Scientist | Wikipedia audio article
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00:01:52 1 Etymology
00:03:14 2 History
00:03:23 2.1 Origins of forensic science and early methods
00:07:07 2.2 Development of forensic science
00:09:56 2.3 Toxicology and ballistics
00:12:13 2.4 Anthropometry
00:13:34 2.5 Fingerprints
00:18:17 2.6 Uhlenhuth test
00:19:04 2.7 DNA
00:21:59 2.8 Maturation
00:28:49 2.9 Late 19th – early 20th centuries figures
00:31:13 2.10 20th century
00:33:29 2.11 21st century
00:34:19 3 Subdivisions
00:44:15 4 Questionable techniques
00:46:20 5 Litigation science
00:47:00 6 Demographics
00:47:20 7 Media impact
00:48:44 8 Controversies
00:53:39 9 Forensic science and humanitarian work
00:55:42 10 See also
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Forensic science is the application of science to criminal and civil laws, mainly—on the criminal side—during criminal investigation, as governed by the legal standards of admissible evidence and criminal procedure.
Forensic scientists collect, preserve, and analyze scientific evidence during the course of an investigation. While some forensic scientists travel to the scene of the crime to collect the evidence themselves, others occupy a laboratory role, performing analysis on objects brought to them by other individuals.In addition to their laboratory role, forensic scientists testify as expert witnesses in both criminal and civil cases and can work for either the prosecution or the defense. While any field could technically be forensic, certain sections have developed over time to encompass the majority of forensically related cases.
Forensic science is the combination of two different Latin words: forensis and science. The former, forensic, relates to a discussion or examination performed in public. Because trials in the ancient world were typically held in public, it carries a strong judicial connotation. The second is science, which is derived from the Latin word for knowledge and is today closely tied to the scientific method, a systematic way of acquiring knowledge. Taken together, then, forensic science can be seen as the use of the scientific methods and processes in crime solving.
Salzburg | Wikipedia audio article
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Salzburg
00:00:49 1 History
00:00:58 1.1 Antiquity to the High Middle Ages
00:02:34 1.2 Independence
00:03:33 1.3 Modern era
00:03:41 1.3.1 Religious conflict
00:04:27 1.3.2 Illuminism
00:04:45 1.4 Electorate of Salzburg
00:05:06 1.5 Austrian annexation of Salzburg
00:05:24 1.6 Salzburg under Bavarian rule
00:05:41 1.7 Division of Salzburg and annexation by Austria and Bavaria
00:06:33 1.8 20th century
00:06:42 1.8.1 First republic
00:07:16 1.8.2 Annexation by the Third Reich
00:08:20 1.8.3 World War II
00:09:13 1.8.4 Present day
00:09:56 2 Geography
00:10:56 2.1 Climate
00:11:40 3 Population development
00:12:20 4 Architecture
00:12:29 4.1 Romanesque and Gothic
00:13:17 4.2 Renaissance and baroque
00:15:12 4.3 Classical modernism and post-war modernism
00:15:57 4.4 Contemporary architecture
00:17:09 5 Districts
00:17:35 6 Main sights
00:20:26 7 Education
00:20:45 7.1 Universities and higher education institutions
00:21:18 8 Notable citizens
00:24:15 9 Events
00:24:40 10 Transport
00:25:47 11 Popular culture
00:26:19 12 Language
00:26:36 13 Sports
00:26:45 13.1 Football
00:27:43 13.2 Ice hockey
00:28:09 13.3 Other sports
00:28:27 14 International relations
00:28:36 14.1 Twin towns—sister cities
00:28:49 15 Gallery
00:28:57 16 See also
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Salzburg (German pronunciation: [ˈzaltsbʊɐ̯k] (listen);), literally salt castle, is the fourth-largest city in Austria and the capital of Salzburg state.
Its historic centre (Altstadt) is renowned for its baroque architecture and is one of the best-preserved city centres north of the Alps, with 27 churches. It was listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1996. The city has three universities and a large population of students. Tourists also visit Salzburg to tour the historic centre and the scenic Alpine surroundings.
Salzburg was the birthplace of the 18th-century composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. In the mid‑20th century, the city was the setting for the musical play and film The Sound of Music.
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David Lloyd George | Wikipedia audio article
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00:01:34 1 Upbringing and early life
00:07:01 2 Member of Parliament
00:08:01 2.1 Issues
00:09:39 2.2 Opposes Boer War
00:11:35 2.3 Opposes Education Act of 1902
00:12:27 3 President of the Board of Trade (1905–1908)
00:13:20 4 Chancellor of the Exchequer (1908–1915)
00:14:43 4.1 People's Budget, 1909
00:17:33 4.2 Mansion House Speech, 1911
00:18:33 4.3 Marconi scandal 1913
00:19:08 4.4 Welsh Church Act 1914
00:19:52 4.5 First World War
00:22:04 5 Minister of Munitions
00:24:54 6 Secretary of State for War
00:28:04 7 Prime Minister (1916–1922)
00:28:15 7.1 War leader (1916–1918)
00:28:26 7.1.1 Forming a government
00:31:01 7.1.2 Nivelle Affair
00:33:21 7.1.3 The U-Boat War
00:33:29 7.1.3.1 Shipping
00:35:35 7.1.3.2 Convoys
00:38:33 7.1.4 Russian Revolution
00:39:55 7.1.5 Imperial War Cabinet
00:40:40 7.1.6 Passchendaele
00:44:33 7.1.7 Supreme War Council
00:46:30 7.1.8 Manpower crisis and the unions
00:49:27 7.1.9 Strategic priorities
00:51:20 7.1.10 Home Front
00:52:49 7.1.11 Crises of 1918
00:55:53 7.2 Postwar Prime Minister (1918–1922)
00:56:29 7.2.1 Coupon election of 1918
00:58:53 7.2.2 Paris 1919
01:01:07 7.2.3 Postwar social reforms
01:02:54 7.2.4 Electoral changes: Suffragism
01:03:43 7.2.5 Wages for Workers
01:04:52 7.2.6 Health for the Heroes
01:06:17 7.2.7 What was the cost?
01:06:47 7.2.8 Ireland
01:08:21 7.2.9 Foreign policy crises
01:11:05 7.2.10 Domestic crises
01:12:11 7.2.11 Fall from power 1922
01:13:19 8 Later political career (1922–1945)
01:13:31 8.1 Liberal reunion
01:15:25 8.2 Liberal leader
01:19:48 8.3 Marginalised
01:20:35 8.4 Lloyd George's New Deal
01:21:22 8.5 Appeasement of Germany
01:23:00 8.6 Final years
01:25:01 8.7 Death
01:25:48 9 Assessment
01:28:19 10 Family
01:28:28 10.1 Margaret and children
01:29:28 10.2 Frances
01:30:19 10.3 Descendants
01:31:05 11 Lloyd George's Cabinets
01:31:15 11.1 War Cabinet
01:31:40 11.1.1 War Cabinet changes
01:32:44 11.1.2 Other members of Lloyd George's War Government
01:34:11 11.2 Peacetime Government, January 1919 – October 1922
01:36:00 11.2.1 Peacetime changes
01:38:24 12 Styles of address and honours
01:38:34 12.1 Styles of address
01:39:09 12.2 Peerage
01:39:26 12.3 Decorations
01:40:06 12.4 Academic
01:40:52 12.5 Freedoms
01:41:28 12.6 Namesakes
01:41:59 13 Cultural depictions
01:42:12 14 Selected works
01:43:14 15 See also
01:43:28 16 Notes
01:43:36 17 Citations
01:43:45 18 Bibliography
01:43:54 18.1 Biographical
01:47:09 18.2 Specialized studies
02:03:40 18.3 Primary sources
02:05:05 19 Further reading
02:07:14 20 External links
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David Lloyd George, 1st Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor, (17 January 1863 – 26 March 1945) was a British statesman and Liberal Party politician. He was the last Liberal to serve as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
As Chancellor of the Exchequer (1908–1915) during H. H. Asquith's tenure as Prime Minister, Lloyd George was a key figure in the introduction of many reforms which laid the foundations of the modern welfare state. His most important role came as the highly energetic Prime Minister of the Wartime Coalition Government (1916–22), during and immediately after the First World War. He was a major player at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919 that reordered Europe after the defeat of the Central Powers. Although he remained Prime Minister after the 1918 general election, the Conservatives were the largest party in the coalition, with the Liberals split between those loyal to Lloyd George, and those still supporting Asquith. He became the leader of the Liberal Party in the late 1920s, but it grew even smaller and more divided. By the 1930s he was a marginalised and widely mistrusted figure. He gave weak support to the war effort during the Secon ...
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