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Events relating to england
Alexander Korda directs Charles Laughton in the film The Private Life of Henry VIII
H.G. Wells publishes The Shape of Things to Come, a novel in which he accurately predicts a renewal of world war
The Pylon group of British poets get their name from Stephen Spender's poem 'The Pylons'
Draughtsman Harry Beck, inspired by electrical circuits, produces a classic map of London's underground
English author Antonia White publishes an autobiographical first novel, Frost in May
J. Arthur Rank founds the Religious Film Society to make films in Britain that will bring people to Christianity
The first Dinky Toys cars go on sale in Britain, originally under the name Modelled Miniatures
In Down and Out in Paris and London English author George Orwell writes a sympathetic account of the people he meets on hard times
The first opera festival at Glyndebourne, a country house in Sussex, opens with a performance of Mozart's Marriage of Figaro
British tennis player Fred Perry wins the first of three consecutive Wimbledon singles titles
British painter Francis Bacon has his first solo show in London
In I, Claudius the autobiography of the Roman emperor is ghost-written by Robert Graves
Berthold Lubetkin and Ove Arup provide a modernist pool for the penguins in London Zoo
In A Handful of Dust Evelyn Waugh sends his hero Tony Last to a disastrous fate, far away in the Amazon rain forest
15-year-old English ballerina Margot Fonteyn makes her first appearance, dancing as a Snowflake in Nutcracker
Openly hostile to the Nazis, the architect Walter Gropius moves to England and three years later makes the USA his home
T.S. Eliot's play Murder in the Cathedral has its first performance in Canterbury cathedral
Marie Rambert's London-based company, deriving originally from her school, takes the name Ballet Rambert
British publisher Allen Lane launches a paperback series to which he gives the name Penguin Books
Within the National government Ramsay MacDonald cedes the role of prime minister to the Conservative leader, Stanley Baldwin
George V dies and is succeeded on the British throne by his eldest son Edward VIII
Salvador Dali creates a stir by attending the opening of London's Surrealist exhibition in a diving suit
In response to the gang violence of Oswald Mosley's black-shirted thugs, a Public Order Act in the UK bans political uniforms
British mathematician Alan Turing writes an influential paper On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidung Problem
John Maynard Keynes defines his economics in The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money
