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Events relating to england
Conscription is introduced in Britain for men aged between 18 and 40
A German U-boat sinks the Channel steamer Sussex, with the loss of many civilian lives
Herbert Asquith resigns in the face of a political coup against him, and is replaced as UK prime minister by Lloyd George
Wartime scarcity causes sugar rationing to be imposed in Britain, to be followed soon by meat and butter and related products
Jeeves and Bertie Wooster make their first appearance in P.G. Wodehouse's The Man with Two Left Feet
John Ireland's Second Violin Concerto meets with immediate approval
Foreign Secretary A.J. Balfour declares Britain's conditional support for a homeland in Palestine for the Jews
Chequers, in the Chilterns, is privately donated to the nation to become the British prime minister's country residence
Anti-German feeling causes the British royal family to adopt the name Windsor instead of Saxe-Coburg & Gotha
German U-boats sink 430 Allied and neutral merchant ships in this month alone
Women are enlisted into Britain's army (Women's Auxiliary Corps) and navy (Women's Royal Naval Service)
British women are at last given the right to vote, but only if aged 30 or over
Lytton Strachey fails to show conventional respect to four famous Victorians in his influential volume of short biographes entitled Eminent Victorians
Rebecca West publishes her first novel, The Return of the Soldier
Marie Stopes, a committed advocate of birth control, publishes Married Love, a frank discussion of sexual relations
Eric Gill completes his Stations of the Cross for Westminster Cathedral
Lloyd George, fighting the British general election as head of a coalition, devastates the Liberal opposition
Women are enlisted in Britain's air force, in the newly formed WRAF (Women's Royal Air Force)
Edward Elgar completes his last great work, the Cello Concerto in E minor
Music-hall artist Harry Lauder is knighted for his wartime performances entertaining troops at the front
Nancy Astor, as MP for Plymouth, becomes the first woman to take her seat in Britain's House of Commons
In The Economic Consequences of the Peace Maynard Keynes publishes a strong attack on the reparations demanded from Germany
John Singer Sargent completes Gassed, a powerful image of one of the particular horrors of the recent war
German sailors scuttle every one of the fifty warships held by the British in Scapa Flow
Marie Rambert, a Polish dancer with the Ballets Russes, opens a ballet school in London
