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| 1951 |
| | | A Question of Upbringing begins Antony Powell's 'A Dance to the Music of Time' | |
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| 1951 |
| | | British art historian Nikolaus Pevsner undertakes a massive task, a county-by-county description of The Buildings of England | |
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| 1951 |
| | | Labour loses the general election and Winston Churchill returns to Downing Street as prime minister | |
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| 1952 |
| | | George VI dies and is succeeded by his elder daughter as Elizabeth II | |
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| 1952 |
| | | X-ray crystallographer Rosalind Franklin, working at King's College in London, photographs DNA | |
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| 1952 |
| | | The UK car manufacturers Morris and Austin merge to become the British Motor Corporation | |
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| 1952 |
| | | British scholar Michael Ventris deciphers Linear B, the script of Mycenae, proving it to be an early form of Greek | |
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| 1952 |
| | | Evelyn Waugh publishes Men at Arms, the first novel in the Sword of Honour trilogy based on his wartime experiences | |
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| 1952 |
| | | Vaughan Williams bases his seventh symphony, Sinfonia Antartica, on his score for the film Scott of the Antarctic | |
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| 1953 |
| | | British choreographer Kenneth MacMillan creates his first ballet, Somnambulism, to music by Stan Kenton | |
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