The Big Four: Peacemaking in Paris in 1919
Alan Sharp takes a fresh look at the statesmen responsible for the Treaty of Versailles
David Lloyd George
The House of Lords Rejects the 1909 People’s Budget
The budget proposed by the Liberal government was 'a social and political revolution of the first magnitude'. After passing the Commons, it was voted down by the House of Lords on 30 November 1909.
Dreamland of the Armistice
Alan Sharp looks at the factors shaping national policies in the weeks preceding the Paris Peace Conference, when the failure of the victorious allies to agree on aims and a process for negotiations with the Germans resulted in a ‘tragedy of disappointment’.