Christopher Robin features for the first time in A.A. Milne's When We Were Very Young

Strawberry Hill is sold to the Catholic Education Council and becomes known as St Mary's College, later St Mary's University College.

Britain and other nations return to a revived version of the gold standard, under the new name of Gold Exchange Standard

English writer Ivy Compton-Burnett finds her characteristic voice in her second novel, Pastors and Masters

A.J. Cook, leader of Britain's miners, insists 'Not a penny off the pay, not a minute on the day'

Virgiinia Woolf publishes her novel Mrs Dalloway, in which the action is limited to a single day

British jockey Gordon Richards becomes champion jockey for the first of 26 times

John Logie Baird gives the world's first demonstration of television to a group assembled in his attic rooms in London

Miners go on strike in Britain in protest against employers' attempts to reduce wages

T.E. Lawrence publishes privately his autobiographical Seven Pillars of Wisdom, describing his part in the Arab uprising

A general strike begins in Britain in support of the striking miners

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

Irish dancer Ninette de Valois, recently with the Ballets Russes, opens a ballet school in London

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

Orleans House is demolished to allow for gravel extraction. The Octagon and stables are bought by the Hon Mrs Nellie Ionides and saved from demolition.

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