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| 1922 |
| | | John Reith becomes general manager of the newly formed British Broadcasting Company | |
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| 1922 |
| | | John Galsworthy publishes his novels about the Forsyte family as a joint collection under the title The Forsyte Saga | |
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| 1922 |
| | | American-born poet T.S. Eliot publishes The Waste Land, an extremely influential poem in five fragmented sections | |
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| 1922 |
| | | Lloyd George loses his majority in the House of Commons when the Conservatives vote in a Carlton Club meeting to withdraw from his coalitiion | |
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| 1922 |
| | | The British Broadcasting company launches a regular broadcasting service from the Marconi 2LO studio in London | |
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| 1922 |
| | | The Conservatives under Andrew Bonar Law win 347 seats in the British general election, giving them a large majority | |
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| 1922 |
| | | The Labour party, winning 142 seats and beating the Liberals into third place, becomes for the first time the official UK opposition | |
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| 1923 |
| | | Stanley Baldwin becomes UK premier and leader of the Conservative party after ill health compels Bonar Law to resign | |
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| 1923 |
| | | The gentleman detective Lord Peter Wimsey makes his first appearance in Dorothy Sayers' Whose Body? | |
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| 1923 |
| | | Bernard Shaw's play Saint Joan has its world premiere in New York | |
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