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

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

Starting in 1930, the fourth Hampton Court Bridge is constucted, slightly downstream from the previous bridge, of ferro-concrete faced with red brick and portland stone in the Wren style

The British Broadcasting Corporation forms a Symphony Orchestra with Adrian Boult as the first music director

The Statute of Westminster defines and formalizes the concept of the British Commonwealth

The gold standard is abandoned throughout the world after massive capital outflows cause the United Kingdom to pull out of the system

Geoffrey De Havilland designs the Tiger Moth, on which nearly all British pilots were trained during World War II

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

A new West stand is completed at Twickenham rugby ground increasing spectator capacity to 74,000, and an additional 6 acres of land are purchased.

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