Amid political crisis Labour-leader Ramsay MacDonald forms an all-party National Government in Britain

Virginia Woolf publishes the most fluid of her novels, The Waves, in which she tells the story through six interior monologues

Pay cuts cause British sailors in the Atlantic fleet to mutiny at Invergordon, in Scotland's Cromarty Firth

George V reads on radio a Christmas address (written by Rudyard Kipling), beginning an annual royal tradition

Russian-born architect Berthold Lubetkin and others set up in London the modernist firm of Tecton

US poet Archibald MacLeish publishes a narrative epic, Conquistador, about the conquest of Mexico

John Cockcroft and Ernest Walton are the first to split an atom, by bombarding it with accelerated protons

British author C.S. Lewis publishes a moral parable, The Screwtape Letters, about the problems confronting a trainee devil

British physicist James Chadwick shows that the behaviour of subatomic particles can be explained by the existence of neutrons, or particles with no electrical charge

British author Aldous Huxley gives a bleak view of a science-based future in his novel Brave New World

Unemployment in Britain reaches three million, or more than 25% of the work force

Oswald Mosley holds his first rally in Trafalgar Square, at the head of his British Union of Fascists

John Cowper Powys's novel A Glastonbury Romance is published first in New York

16-year-old Yehudi Menuhin records the Elgar violin concerto, conducted by the composer

The Bluebell Girls, formed by Margaret Kelly ('Miss Bluebell'), give their first performances in Paris

English fast-bowler Harold Larwood causes outrage using the 'body-line' attack, devised by his captain, Douglas Jardine, in Test matches against Australia

English conductor Thomas Beecham founds another orchestra, calling it the London Philharmonic

The British artist Graham Sutherland, after an early career as a printmaker, takes up painting relatively late in life

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'

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