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Events relating to england
The British Broadcasting company launches a regular broadcasting service from the Marconi 2LO studio in London
The Conservatives under Andrew Bonar Law win 347 seats in the British general election, giving them a large majority
The Labour party, winning 142 seats and beating the Liberals into third place, becomes for the first time the official UK opposition
Stanley Baldwin becomes UK premier and leader of the Conservative party after ill health compels Bonar Law to resign
The gentleman detective Lord Peter Wimsey makes his first appearance in Dorothy Sayers' Whose Body?
Bernard Shaw's play Saint Joan has its world premiere in New York
Margaret Bondfield is the first woman to be chairman of Britain's Trades Union Congress
Winston Churchill, accepting the position of chancellor of the exchequer in Baldwin's cabinet, returns to the Conservative party
A general election brings in Britain's first Labour prime minister, Ramsay MacDonald, at the head of a minority government
Britain's most prestigious steeplechase, the Cheltenham Gold Cup, is run for the first time
The British rugby team touring South Africa are for the first time called the Lions
Gracie Fields makes her name when she appears in London as Sally Perkins in the musical Mr Tower of London
A massive Conservative victory in the UK general election follows publication of the forged Zinoviev letter, and Baldwin returns as prime minister
E.M. Forster's novel A Passage to India builds on cultural misconceptions between the British and Indian communities
Christopher Robin features for the first time in A.A. Milne's When We Were Very Young
Britain and other nations return to a revived version of the gold standard, under the new name of Gold Exchange Standard
English writer Ivy Compton-Burnett finds her characteristic voice in her second novel, Pastors and Masters
A.J. Cook, leader of Britain's miners, insists 'Not a penny off the pay, not a minute on the day'
Virgiinia Woolf publishes her novel Mrs Dalloway, in which the action is limited to a single day
British jockey Gordon Richards becomes champion jockey for the first of 26 times
English potter Michael Cardew sets up a studio at Winchcombe, in Gloucestershire
John Logie Baird gives the world's first demonstration of television to a group assembled in his attic rooms in London
Miners go on strike in Britain in protest against employers' attempts to reduce wages
Patrick Abercrombie publishes The Preservation of Rural England, calling for rural planning to prevent the encroachment of towns
T.E. Lawrence publishes privately his autobiographical Seven Pillars of Wisdom, describing his part in the Arab uprising
