Episode 16 - Lloyd George’s Death Duties. Costly welfare reforms cause the Liberal politican Lloyd George to tax the aristocracy and erode their social power in the countryside, and political power in westminster. The guidance of the scientist starts to displace the paternalism of the landlord, and for a brief period farmers are given government support.

0:00 - Liberal Welfare Reforms
4:07 - Death Duties
7:47 - The War
10:09 - After the War

Sources:
https://researchbriefings.files.parli...
The ‘Mangold’s Champion’: Lloyd George, the game laws, and the campaign for rural land reform in Edwardian England, Journal of Liberal History, Stephen Ridgewell, 2019.
https://liberalhistory.org.uk/wp-cont...
Farms and Fields, The Story of the Countryside, CS Orwin, 1951
Daniel Hall, Pioneer in Scientific Agriculture, H. E. Dale, 1956
Lord Lymington, ‘Famine in England’, 1938
Lord Lymington, ‘Alternative to Death’, 1943
C. S. Orwin and W. R. Peel, ‘The Tenure of Agricultural Land’, 1925
C. S. Orwin, ‘Problems of the Countryside’, 1946
R. G. Stapledon, ‘The Land, Now and To-morrow’, 1935
R. G. Stapledon, ‘The Way of the Land’, 1943
Wentworth Day, ‘Poison on the Land’, 1956