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Events relating to england
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
Labour is the largest party in the UK parliament but still has no overall majority, so Ramsay MacDonald forms his second minority government
Alfred Hitchcock directs Blackmail, the first British talkie, with a climax on the roof of the British Museum
Margaret Bondfield becomes the first woman to sit in the British cabinet, as minister of labour
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
Vita Sackville-West and her husband Harold Nicolson begin to create a garden at Sissinghurst in Kent
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
The Camargo Society, founded to promote British dancers and choreographers, presents its first evening of ballet in London
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
