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| 1925 |
| | | Britain and other nations return to a revived version of the gold standard, under the new name of Gold Exchange Standard | |
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| 1925 |
| | | Plaid Cymru, the 'party of Wales', is founded in a temperance hotel in Pwllheli during the National Eisteddfod | |
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| 1925 |
| | | English writer Ivy Compton-Burnett finds her characteristic voice in her second novel, Pastors and Masters | |
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| 1925 |
| | | A.J. Cook, leader of Britain's miners, insists 'Not a penny off the pay, not a minute on the day' | |
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| 1925 |
| | | Virgiinia Woolf publishes her novel Mrs Dalloway, in which the action is limited to a single day | |
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| 1925 |
| | | British jockey Gordon Richards becomes champion jockey for the first of 26 times | |
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| 1926 |
| | | English potter Michael Cardew sets up a studio at Winchcombe, in Gloucestershire | |
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Potteries Museum & Art Gallery
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| 1926 |
| | | John Logie Baird gives the world's first demonstration of television to a group assembled in his attic rooms in London | |
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| 1926 |
| | | Miners go on strike in Britain in protest against employers' attempts to reduce wages | |
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| 1926 |
| | | Patrick Abercrombie publishes The Preservation of Rural England, calling for rural planning to prevent the encroachment of towns | |
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