Lloyd George (front row, left) at the 1922 Genoa Conference, held to discuss reconstruction after the First World War.
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Parliamentary Archives, LondonThe British economy emerged from the First World War severely damaged. Over the next twenty years Britain experienced severe depression and the return to, and abandonment of, the gold standard.
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Further reading
- Aldcroft, D.H., The Interwar Economy 1919-39 (London: Batsford, 1973)
- Broadberry, S.N., The British Economy between the Wars (Oxford: Blackwell, 1986)
- Pollard, S., The Development of the British Economy, 1914-1990 (London: Edward Arnold, 1992)
- Cain P.J. &. Hopkins, A.G., British Imperialism: Crisis and Deconstruction, 1914-1990 (London and New York: Longman, 1993)
- Floud R.C. & McCloskey, D.C., The Economic History of Britain since 1700, Vol. 2 1860-1939 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994)
