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| 1948 |
| | | The National Health Service comes into effect in Britain, providing free medical, dental and hospital services for the entire population | |
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| 1948 |
| | | Frederick Ashton's Cinderella, to music by Prokofiev, is the first full-length ballet by an English choreographer | |
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| 1949 |
| | | Ealing Studios produce a film of Compton Mackenzie's 1947 novel Whisky Galore, about an alcoholic windfall on the island of Barra | |
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| 1949 |
| | | Carol Reed directs The Third Man, starring Orson Welles and written by Graham Greene | |
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| 1949 |
| | | Enid Blyton introduces her most successful character, Noddy, a small boy who can't avoid nodding when he speaks | |
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| 1949 |
| | | British atomic physicist Klaus Fuchs is discovered to be a Soviet agent, passing nuclear secrets to the USSR | |
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| 1949 |
| | | The world's first commercial jet airliner, the Comet, designed by de Havilland, goes into service with BOAC (British Overseas Airways Corporation) | |
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| 1949 |
| | | Eire is renamed the republic of Ireland and withdraws from the Commonwealth, severing the last link with the British crown | |
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| 1949 |
| | | The British government declares that northern Ireland will remain British unless the parliament in Stormont decides otherwise | |
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| 1949 |
| | | George Orwell publishes Nineteen Eighty-Four, a novel set in a terrifying totalitarian state of the future, watched over by Big Brother | |
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