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Today is Good Friday. There is no news." [4] Piano music follows. 22 April – the United Kingdom, Japan and the United States sign the London Naval Treaty regulating submarine warfare and limiting shipbuilding. 30 April – first section of the 132kV AC National Grid, the Central Scotland Electricity Scheme, is switched on in Edinburgh. [5]
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 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.
It comes amid warnings that the threat to Britain from hostile states is the highest since the Cold War.
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 ...
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]
21 November – Stanley Kalms, Baron Kalms, businessman and life peer; 27 November – Geoffrey Jones, film director (died 2005) 28 November – John Anderson (died 2024) [28] 7 December – Maurice Agis, sculptor (died 2009) 18 December – Alison Plowden, historian (born in India; died 2007) 21 December – Margaret M. McGowan, historian ...
This is the first UK general election in which women have an equal franchise with men and they form a majority of the electorate. 7 June – The Conservatives concede power rather than risk courting Liberals for a fragile majority. 8 June – Ramsay MacDonald forms a new Labour government. [3]