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1923
 
    
Margaret Bondfield is the first woman to be chairman of Britain's Trades Union Congress       
1924
 
     
Winston Churchill, accepting the position of chancellor of the exchequer in Baldwin's cabinet, returns to the Conservative party        
1924
 
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A general election brings in Britain's first Labour prime minister, Ramsay MacDonald, at the head of a minority government      
1924
 
   
Britain's most prestigious steeplechase, the Cheltenham Gold Cup, is run for the first time      
1924
 
  
The British rugby team touring South Africa are for the first time called the Lions     
1924
 
    
Gracie Fields makes her name when she appears in London as Sally Perkins in the musical Mr Tower of London       
1924
 
     
Four Scottish Colourists (Cadell, Fergusson, Hunter, Peploe) exhibit together in Paris        
1924
 
    
A massive Conservative victory in the UK general election follows publication of the forged Zinoviev letter, and Baldwin returns as prime minister       
1924
 
    
E.M. Forster's novel A Passage to India builds on cultural misconceptions between the British and Indian communities       
1924
 
    
Christopher Robin features for the first time in A.A. Milne's When We Were Very Young       
Christopher Robin, c.1924
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