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