DuBose Heyward's novel Porgy, dramatized with a new title by himself and his wife Dorothy, has a great success on Broadway and in London

Anglo-Irish author Elizabeth Bowen publishes her first novel, The Hotel

Virginia Woolf uses a Hebridean holiday as the setting for her narrative in To The Lighthouse

Stanley Spencer begins his murals in the Memorial Chapel for Henry Sandham at Burghclere, in Hampshire

Ninette De Valois creates her first ballet, Les Petits Riens, at the Old Vic

English psychologist Henry Havelock Ellis completes a thirty-year project, his 7-volume Studies in the Psychology of Sex

English sculptor Henry Moore receives his first public commission, for the headquarters of London Underground

Scottish bacteriologist Alexander Fleming accidentally discovers a mould that selectively kills bacteria, and calls it penicillin

Caribbean-born author Jean Rhys publishes her first novel, Postures, based on her affair with the writer Ford Madox Ford

The age limit for British women to vote is lowered to 21, finally giving them parity with men

Siegfried Sassoon publishes Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man, the first volume of a semi-autobiographical trilogy

English sculptor Barbara Hepworth has her first solo exhibition, at the Beaux Arts gallery in London

Set in a World War I trench, the play Journey's End reflects the wartime experiences of its British author, R.C. Sherriff

Eric Fenby devotes himself to Frederick Delius, taking dictation to write down the scores of the blind composer's new works

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

The beams and threshing stones of a seventeenth-century barn from Oxted, Surrey, are reassembled in North Sheen (now Kew) to form the first barn church in Britain

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