The prime minister Stanley Baldwin uses BBC radio to broadcast a conciliatory message to the workers in Britain's general strike

The Trades Union Congress calls off Britain's general strike after nine days

Pooh, Piglet, Eeyore and the others make their first appearance in A.A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh

British astrophysicist Arthur Eddington compares mass and luminosity in The Internal Constitution of the Stars

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

The England cricketer Jack Hobbs makes the highest score of his career, 316 not out for Surrey against Middlesex

English choreographer Frederick Ashton creates his first ballet, A Tragedy of Fashion

The Balfour Report, by former UK prime minister A.J. Balfour, suggests the way forward for the British Commonwealth of Nations

Stanley Spencer completes his large visionary canvas The Resurrection: Cookham

28-year old Staffordshire potter Clarice Cliff launches a range of highly coloured geometric designs that she calls Bizarre Ware

English typographer Eric Gill designs a type face without serifs, commissioned by Monotype and to be known as Gill Sans-Serif

Henry Williamson wins a wide readership with Tarka the Otter, a realistic story of the life and death of an otter in Devon

Anglo-Irish author Elizabeth Bowen publishes her first novel, The Hotel

Virginia Woolf uses a Hebridean holiday as the setting for her narrative in To The Lighthouse

Stanley Spencer begins his murals in the Memorial Chapel for Henry Sandham at Burghclere, in Hampshire

Ninette De Valois creates her first ballet, Les Petits Riens, at the Old Vic

English psychologist Henry Havelock Ellis completes a thirty-year project, his 7-volume Studies in the Psychology of Sex

English sculptor Henry Moore receives his first public commission, for the headquarters of London Underground

Scottish bacteriologist Alexander Fleming accidentally discovers a mould that selectively kills bacteria, and calls it penicillin

Caribbean-born author Jean Rhys publishes her first novel, Postures, based on her affair with the writer Ford Madox Ford

The age limit for British women to vote is lowered to 21, finally giving them parity with men

Siegfried Sassoon publishes Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man, the first volume of a semi-autobiographical trilogy

English sculptor Barbara Hepworth has her first solo exhibition, at the Beaux Arts gallery in London

Set in a World War I trench, the play Journey's End reflects the wartime experiences of its British author, R.C. Sherriff

Eric Fenby devotes himself to Frederick Delius, taking dictation to write down the scores of the blind composer's new works