D.H. Lawrence's new novel, in which Lady Chatterley is in love with her husband's gamekeeper, is privately printed in Florence

Evelyn Waugh succeeds with a comic first novel, Decline and Fall

Radclyffe Hall's novel The Well of Loneliness is the first to deal openly with a lesbian subject

English sculptor Henry Moore has his first solo exhibition, at the Warren Gallery in London

British inventor John Logie Baird secures a patent for fibreoptic imaging

Richard Hughes publishes his first novel, A High Wiind in Jamaica

Alfred Hitchcock directs Blackmail, the first British talkie, with a climax on the roof of the British Museum

George Formby makes the first records featuring what becomes his trademark, the ukulele

Blind Fireworks is Ulster writer Louis MacNeice's first collection of poems

The British Broadcasting Corporation uses Logie Baird's system for its first trial TV broadcasts

English author J.B. Priestley has an immediate success with his first novel, The Good Companions

English poet Robert Graves puts behind him an England he dislikes in his autobiography, Goodbye to All That

English author W.H. Auden's first collection of poetry is published with the simple title Poems

English pioneer aviator Amy Johnson makes a 19-day solo flight in a Gipsy Moth from Croydon (part of London) to Darwin, Australia

Swallows and Amazons is the first of Arthur Ransome's adventure stories for children

Noel Coward and Gertrude Lawrence star in the West End in Private Lives, Coward's comedy of marital complications

British theoretical physicist Paul Dirac predicts the existence of an anti-particle of the electron, first observed two years later and named the positron

Agatha Christie's Miss Marple makes her first appearance, in Murder at the Vicarage

The airship R101, designed by a UK Air Ministry team, explodes on its maiden vogage, killing all but four of those on board

English composer John Ireland's Piano Concerto has its first performance

Australian-born composer Percy Grainger writes variations on Handel's tune The Harmonious Blacksmith

The British Broadcasting Corporation forms a Symphony Orchestra with Adrian Boult as the first music director

The Statute of Westminster defines and formalizes the concept of the British Commonwealth

The gold standard is abandoned throughout the world after massive capital outflows cause the United Kingdom to pull out of the system

Geoffrey De Havilland designs the Tiger Moth, on which nearly all British pilots were trained during World War II