| 1921 - 1938 |
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| Of Dictators, Socialism & the nervous
peace . . . |
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| Post-war depression . . . Northern
Ireland parliament (1921) . . . 'big 4' railway grouping (1921) . . . Irish
Free State (1922) . . . civil war in Ireland (1922) . . . 2LO (BBC)
broadcasting from London (1922) . . . Labour government [UK](1924) . . .
schools broadcasts (1924) . . . improved gramophone (1925) . . . general strike
(1926) . . . sport's broadcasts (1927) . . . automatic telephone exchange
(1927) . . . penicillin (1929) . . . early television (1929) . . . world slump,
Wall Street crash (1929) . . . artificial splitting of atom (1932) . . . record
unemployment (1933) . . . demonstration of radar (1935) . . . RAF expansion
(1935) . . . abdication [of Edward VIII] (1936) . . . first public television
service (1936) . . . 'terror' air-raids on Guernica (1937) . . . Irish
neutrality (1937) . . . appeasement & re-arming (1938) . . . expansion of
world aviation . . . |
| Reaching peak of warmth (prior to mid-20thC downturn) * lack
of severe winters * southeastern Britain drier (along with sheltered east/NE
England) * increased rainfall across NW. |
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