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1930–1935 – unemployment averages more than 18% in Britain. Housing Act provides government subsidy for slum clearance, [15] and construction of further new council houses as replacements.
The Great Depression of 1929–32 broke out at a time when the United Kingdom was still far from having recovered from the effects of the First World War. Economist Lee Ohanian showed that economic output fell by 25% between 1918 and 1921 and did not recover until the end of the Great Depression, [3] arguing that the United Kingdom suffered a twenty-year great depression beginning in 1918.
This article presents a timeline of events in the history of the United Kingdom from 1930 AD until 1949 AD. For a narrative explaining the overall developments, see the related History of the British Isles.
The Housing Act 1930, which finally came into operation in 1934, led to more slum clearances in the five years before 1939 than in the preceding fifty. [64] The Wall Street Crash of 1929 ushered in the Great Depression, which led to over two million unemployed by December 1930 and halved the volume of exports between 1929 and 1931. [65]
Great Depression in the United Kingdom (8 P) I. Interwar Britain (2 C, 18 P) L. 1930s in British law (11 C) M. Ministers in the Chamberlain peacetime government, 1937 ...
It comes amid warnings that the threat to Britain from hostile states is the highest since the Cold War.
The 1930s (pronounced "nineteen-thirties" and commonly abbreviated as "the '30s" or "the Thirties") was a decade that began on January 1, 1930, and ended on December 31, 1939.
In the mid-1930s, the Royal Air Force's front-line fighters were biplanes, little different from those employed in World War I. The re-armament program enabled the RAF to acquire modern monoplanes , like the Hawker Hurricane and Supermarine Spitfire , such that sufficient numbers were available to defend the UK in the Battle of Britain in 1940 ...