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1926
 
    
Patrick Abercrombie publishes The Preservation of Rural England, calling for rural planning to prevent the encroachment of towns       
1926
 
    
T.E. Lawrence publishes privately his autobiographical Seven Pillars of Wisdom, describing his part in the Arab uprising       
1926
 
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A general strike begins in Britain in support of the striking miners      
1926
 
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The prime minister Stanley Baldwin uses BBC radio to broadcast a conciliatory message to the workers in Britain's general strike       
1926
 
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The Trades Union Congress calls off Britain's general strike after nine days       
1926
 
    
Pooh, Piglet, Eeyore and the others make their first appearance in A.A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh       
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1926
 
    
British astrophysicist Arthur Eddington compares mass and luminosity in The Internal Constitution of the Stars       
1926
 
    
Irish dancer Ninette de Valois, recently with the Ballets Russes, opens a ballet school in London       
1926
 
    
Hugh MacDiarmid writes his long poem A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle in a revived version of the Lallans dialect of the Scottish borders       
1926
 
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Eamon de Valera's faction, Fianna Fáil (Warriors of Ireland), enters mainstream Irish life as a political party