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1926
 
   
English potter Michael Cardew sets up a studio at Winchcombe, in Gloucestershire      
Earhenware jar, Michael Cardew
Potteries Museum & Art Gallery
1926
 
    
John Logie Baird gives the world's first demonstration of television to a group assembled in his attic rooms in London       
1926
 
    
Russian Jewish writer Isaac Babel publishes a collection of stories, Red Cavalry, based on his own experiences in the army       
1926
 
    
Soldiers Pay is the first published novel of the Mississippi author William Faulkner       
1926
 
     
The Austrian architect Adolf Loos builds a house in Paris for the Romanian dadaist poet Tristan Tzara        
1926
 
  
Miners go on strike in Britain in protest against employers' attempts to reduce wages     
1926
 
    
French author André Gide publishes his only novel, The Counterfeiters       
1926
 
    
Patrick Abercrombie publishes The Preservation of Rural England, calling for rural planning to prevent the encroachment of towns       
1926
 
    
T.E. Lawrence publishes privately his autobiographical Seven Pillars of Wisdom, describing his part in the Arab uprising       
1926
 
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A general strike begins in Britain in support of the striking miners