Daisy, Countess of Warwick and the 1923 Local Election

A talk by Aaron Manning. This talk will be streamed live online via Zoom, the link to enable members to join the Zoom meeting will be sent to our email distribution list a few days beforehand. Visitors are welcome – email nick.holmes9@gmail.com to request the link

In the winter of 1923, journalists flooded into Warwickshire to report on the juiciest local election in years. In this talk, local historian Aaron Manning tells the story of how the Warwick and Leamington local election caught the eyes of the nation, told through the perspectives of the Labour Party’s candidate Frances Evelyn Maynard, better known as Daisy countess of Warwick, and her Conservative rival Anthony Eden.