The British parliament ratifies the Anglo-Irish treaty, but de Valera repudiates it and resigns as president of the Dáil

Somerset Maugham's short story 'Rain' (in his collection The Trembling of a Leaf) introduces the lively American prostitute Sadie Thompson

The British airship R-38 bursts into flames on its fourth flight and crashes into the Humber

Ludwig Wittgenstein publishes his influential study of the philosophy of logic, Tractatus Logico Philosophicus

The Marconi company in England pioneers a regular broadcasting service from its 2MT radio station near Chelmsford

Garrick's Villa is divided into seven flats by Flora Hutchinson

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

Garrick's Villa Estate is split up and auctioned. Garrick's Temple and Temple Lawn are sold to Paul Glaize who builds a house, Temple House, joined onto the Temple

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

Following the death of Sir Ratan Tata in 1918, his widow sells York house and its contents to the Twickenham Urban District Council for use as council offices.

The ‘New Star & Garter Home’, designed by Edwin Cooper, is opened by King George V and Queen Mary

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

The first omnibus service starts to Twickenham rugby ground, and the RFU buys 7 more acres of land.

E.M. Forster's novel A Passage to India builds on cultural misconceptions between the British and Indian communities