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| 1950 |
| | C.S. Lewis gives the first glimpse of Narnia in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe | |
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| 1950 |
| | Anton Dolin and Alicia Markova form the Festival Ballet, in time for next year's Festival of Britain | |
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| 1950 |
| | British author Doris Lessing publishes her first novel, The Grass is Singing | |
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| 1950 |
| | Kirsten Flagstad sings the posthumous premiere, in London, of Richard Strauss's Four Last Songs | |
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| 1950 |
| | The Medical Research Council in Britain produces a report, by Austin Hill and Richard Doll, linking smoking and lung cancer | |
| | Tobacco and the doctor's opinion Wellcome Library, London
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| 1951 |
| | The new Iranian prime minister, Mohammed Mossadegh, passes the Oil Nationalization Act, seizing Britain's assets in the region | |
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| 1951 |
| | The British spies Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean escape to the Soviet Union just ahead of their detection and arrest | |
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| 1951 |
| | The Festival of Britain, on the south bank of the Thames in London, celebrates the end of wartime austerity | |
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| 1951 |
| | British architects Arnold Powell and John Moya design the Skylon as a central feature for the Festival of Britain | |
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| 1951 |
| | British architect Basil Spence wins the competition to design a new cathedral for Coventry | |
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