William Walton and Edith Sitwell give a private performance of their entertainment Façade, setting poems by Sitwell

In elections to the Dáil the pro-treaty faction of Collins and Griffith defeats the opposition, led by de Valera

US golfer Walter Hagen wins the first of his four victories in the British Open

Bitter war breaks out between factions of the IRA supporting and opposing the Anglo-Irish Treaty

John Galsworthy publishes his novels about the Forsyte family as a joint collection under the title The Forsyte Saga

American-born poet T.S. Eliot publishes The Waste Land, an extremely influential poem in five fragmented sections

The British Broadcasting company launches a regular broadcasting service from the Marconi 2LO studio in London

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

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

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

Four Scottish Colourists (Cadell, Fergusson, Hunter, Peploe) exhibit together in Paris

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

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

T.E. Lawrence publishes privately his autobiographical Seven Pillars of Wisdom, describing his part in the Arab uprising

A general strike begins in Britain in support of the striking miners