Had it not been for the Shells Crisis of 1916 and being overshadowed by Lloyd George, Asquith might rank as one of our greatest premiers.
@leew1598
6 жыл бұрын
Thanks for sharing, a fascinating piece of history.
@lw3646
5 жыл бұрын
At the end I think he says, "There, will that do?"
@seanmaher3518
Жыл бұрын
Well, the phonograph was still relatively new, he probably didn’t know how it worked
@anonymouspeacefulperson6199
3 жыл бұрын
Looking great Joyce Henrietta Gorman!
@stupendous1068
8 жыл бұрын
It's a shame there are no surviving recordings of the PMs between Gladstone and Asquith.
@WORLD8NSH5KNIGHT1
8 жыл бұрын
indeed, Salisbury was in office for 13 years, but there is nothing...
@ElCidTheScienceKid
4 жыл бұрын
I find it odd that nothing survives of Bonar Law when even Clynes and Simon have recordings.
@LordJuzzie
4 жыл бұрын
@@ElCidTheScienceKid Bonar Law was Prime Minster for a very short amount of time. I don't think its that surprising.
@ElCidTheScienceKid
4 жыл бұрын
@@LordJuzzie he was still an incredibly long serving party leader, 11-21 and then 22-23. You'd think he'd had given at least one recorded speech in all that time. He was in the wartime coalitions to boot.
@LordJuzzie
4 жыл бұрын
@@ElCidTheScienceKid Thats true, I'd forgotten about that.
@anonymouspeacefulperson6199
3 жыл бұрын
Gosh, he looks like Riley! Great grandfather
@conditiae3771
6 жыл бұрын
Does anyone know if this speech was broadcast on September 17th? In my great-grandfather's diary for 1909 he wrote 'Asquith's speech' on that day, and I wondered whether this is what he heard, on the wireless. It would have been very novel then to hear the actual voice of the prime minister (rather than reading his speech in a newspaper, that is), so worth remarking upon in a diary.
@lw3646
5 жыл бұрын
I'm not sure but I don't think so. Radio broadcasts to the public didn't really begin until the 1920s. Practically nobody would have had a radio in their home in 1909. Perhaps these recordings were for the gramophone or something like that instead.
@lw3646
5 жыл бұрын
Also this was made on the 20th July 1909.
@HypervoxelRBX
4 жыл бұрын
Conditiae most likely attended a public meeting or public speech or even read it in the papers
@TheForkhandles
2 жыл бұрын
This is almost certainly a gramophone recording. Politicians in 1909 didn't use the wireless to broadcast speeches because the general public didn't own wirelesses. What wireless stations do you think existed in 1909 and what else do you think they were broadcasting. The recording might have been Asquith rehearsing for a public speech he intended to make it was decided to capture his voice for posterity. Probably copies of the recording were made at the time for the British Library, the Bodlean Library, the Westminster archives etc. In any case, the 1909 budget was Lloyd George's budget and he would have been the man speechifying about it.
@theMalcolm88
Жыл бұрын
Radio (BBC) didn't start broadcasting till 1922 and even then most people couldn't afford a wireless.
@Eusoik
2 ай бұрын
He sounds similar to Winston Churchill.
@martin.aguilar.a
6 жыл бұрын
It sounds is saying about ww1 but great speech.
@WORLD8NSH5KNIGHT1
6 жыл бұрын
Well this was 5 year's before WW1, so that is unlikely.
@martin.aguilar.a
6 жыл бұрын
Centrist Philosopher well yeah kinda.
@TrinidadReuhl-f7n
14 сағат бұрын
O'Kon Throughway
@jamaicarootstv3083
3 жыл бұрын
There is a road in Jones Town Kingston called Asquith. I think it was named after him. Does anyone know when this town was built.
@jayd4ever
9 жыл бұрын
I think hh asqith was more liberal than david llord George and I think Rufus Isaacs with David Llord George,Sir George Grey,Reginald McKenna,Henry John Temple,Charles Wood,George Grenville, Henry Pelham, Edward Cardwell,J. E. B. Seely, Robert Crewe-Milnes,Robert Wynn Carrington,Victor Bruce,Robert Reid,Robert Rolfe, Richard Bethell,Charles Pepys,Henry Brougham,Charles Pratt,Granville Leveson-Gower, Henry Pelham-Clinton, Lord William Bentinck, George Eden,Thomas Baring,Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, Freeman Freeman-Thomas,Sir James Graham,Edward Marjoribanks,John Jervis, William Pitt The Elder,Richard Howe,Thomas Milner Gibson, Henry Labouchere, Charles Poulett Thomson are most of the liberals/whigs I wish had joined the tory/conservative and I think would have if it wasn't for few issues they had at the time
@ElCidTheScienceKid
4 жыл бұрын
David Lloyd George was a tory aligned roaster. He went behind Asquith's back to offer a coalition to Balfour in 1911 and betrayed his former colleagues during and after the war.
@justinpals124
2 жыл бұрын
I THINK YOU JUST LIKE TO RAMBLE ON WITH LONG LIST OF INFLUENTIAL BRITISH MEN.... NOTHING MORE, NOTHING LESS. JUST RAMBLE, RAMBLE, RAMBLE....
@jayd4ever
2 жыл бұрын
@@justinpals124 you dont think they are great
@SidneyHavey-r4j
11 сағат бұрын
Gerhold Bypass
@da90sReAlvloc
2 жыл бұрын
Dose anyone know how Benjamin Disraeli sounded like
@gvbrandolini
3 жыл бұрын
Interessante.
@dadrich2
6 ай бұрын
0:09 0:39
@craigoren4475
2 ай бұрын
He was Helena Bonham Carter's great grandfather. He was a great trial lawyer before going into politics. But this is not a great speech.
@Jackdanielson1990
Ай бұрын
Asquith was certainly fond of a drink. He became quite an embarrassment at parties due to him being inebriated in his later years so it is possible.
@craigoren4475
Ай бұрын
@@Jackdanielson1990 Roy Jenkins talks about that a little in his biography of Asquith. He says that Asquith was a fairly heavy drinker and that could make "him look a little unsteady. . . But no one ever suggested that his ind lose its precision or that there was any faltering in command over what he did or did not want to say."
@andrewfusco8580
Жыл бұрын
Were all politicians of that era that debauched looking? The guy looks at least mildly hammered in this.
@andrewfusco8580
Жыл бұрын
@@user-ce8qv6qf4r Meh. I'll agree to disagree.
@daphneanson9587
10 ай бұрын
Not a very commanding voice, given that he was PM for eight years.
@ciroalb3
4 ай бұрын
first, he was a scholar, Greek and classics, cared little for electoral politics. Second, this is what most PMs sounded like, compare Baldwin and Chamberlain. Asquith was a voice of calm and reassurance, unlike Lloyd George or Churchill
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