1932 in the United Kingdom

1932 in the United Kingdom

Other years

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Individual countries of the United Kingdom

England | Northern Ireland | Scotland | Wales

Sport, television and music

1932 English cricket season Football: England | Scotland 1932 in British television 1932 in British music

Events from the year 1932 in the United Kingdom.

Incumbents

• Monarch – George V
• Prime Minister – Ramsay MacDonald (national coalition)

Events

• 8 January – the Archbishop of Canterbury forbids church remarriage of divorcees.
• 24 January – inmates at Dartmoor Prison mutiny.^[1]
• 26 January – British submarine HMS M2 sinks off the Dorset coast with all fifty hands.
• 4 February – 15 February: Great Britain and Northern Ireland compete in the Winter Olympics at Lake Placid, New York but do not win any medals.

Broadcasting House

• 1 February – 29 February: with an average precipitation of 8.8 millimetres or 0.35 inches, this period constitutes the driest calendar month over the United Kingdom as a whole since records began in 1910.^[2]
• 1 March – Import Duties Act re-establishes protective trade tariffs.^[3]
• 15 March – first broadcast from the newly opened Broadcasting House.^[3]
• 6 April – Ministry of Health encourages local councils to engage in widespread slum clearance.^[3]
• 13 April – mass trespass of Kinder Scout, a willful trespass by ramblers at Kinder Scout, in the Peak District of England, to protest against lack of free public access to open country.^[4]
• 23 April – new Shakespeare Memorial Theatre opens in Stratford-upon-Avon.^[5] Designed by Elisabeth Scott, it is the country's first important work by a woman architect.^[6]
• 1 May – protestors and police clash in Hyde Park, London, during a May day protest against Japan's attitude towards China when they try to march on the Japanese Embassy.
• 10 May – James Chadwick discovers the neutron.^[7]
• 26 May – the Scots law case of Donoghue v Stevenson is decided in the House of Lords, establishing the modern concept of a duty of care in cases of negligence.^[8]
• 4 July – George Carwardine patents the Anglepoise lamp.
• 12 July – Hedley Verity of Yorkshire establishes a new first-class cricket record by taking all ten wickets for only ten runs against Nottinghamshire on a pitch affected by a storm.
• 19 July – King George V opens the replacement Lambeth Bridge.
• 30 July – 14 August: Great Britain and Northern Ireland compete at the Olympics in Los Angeles, California and win 4 gold, 7 silver and 5 bronze.
• 1 August – Forrest Mars produces the first Mars bar in his Slough factory.^[9]
• 22 August – first experimental television broadcast by the BBC.^[5]
• 20 September – Methodist Union: the Methodist Church is formed in Britain by merger of the Wesleyan Methodist Church, the Primitive Methodists and the United Methodist Church.
• 26 September – first contingent of the National Hunger March leaves Glasgow.^[10][11]
• October – Oswald Mosley founds the British Union of Fascists.^[3]
• 3 October – The Times newspaper first appears set in the Times New Roman typeface devised by Stanley Morison.^[12]
• 7 October – Thomas Beecham establishes the London Philharmonic Orchestra.^[3][13]
• 13 October – Britain grants independence to Iraq in exchange for a restrictive long-term military alliance.
• 27 October – arrival of the Hunger March in London leads to several violent clashes with police.^[14]
• 14 November – book tokens go on sale in the UK.^[5]
• 30 November – the BBC begins a series of radio broadcasts to mark the 75th birthday of Sir Edward Elgar.
• 2 December – English cricket team in Australia in 1932–33: opening of the 'bodyline' series.
• 5 December – the comic strip character Jane first appears in the Daily Mirror.
• 10 December
  • John Galsworthy wins the Nobel Prize in Literature "for his distinguished art of narration which takes its highest form in The Forsyte Saga".^[15]
  • Charles Scott Sherrington and Edgar Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian, win the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for their discoveries regarding the functions of neurons".^[16]
• 19 December – the BBC Empire Service, later known as the BBC World Service, begins broadcasting^[5] using a shortwave facility at its Daventry transmitting station.^[17]
• 25 December – King George V delivers the first Royal Christmas Message.^[3]

Undated

• Opening of the Hoover Building on the Western Avenue in Perivale, Middlesex, a noted example of Art Deco architecture, designed by Wallis, Gilbert and Partners for The Hoover Company.^[18]
• Production of Weetabix breakfast cereal in the U.K. begins at Burton Latimer in Northamptonshire.
• English Folk Dance and Song Society formed by merger of the Folk-Song Society and the English Folk Dance Society.

Publications

• Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot novel Peril at End House.
• Lewis Grassic Gibbon's novel Sunset Song, first in A Scots Quair trilogy.
• Stella Gibbons' parodic novel Cold Comfort Farm.
• J. B. S. Haldane's book The Causes of Evolution, unifying Mendelian genetics and evolutionary science.
• Aldous Huxley's dystopian novel Brave New World.
• Captain W. E. Johns' first Biggles aviation stories, collected as The Camels are Coming.
• F. R. Leavis' book New Bearings in English Poetry.
• Q. D. Leavis' book Fiction and the Reading Public.
• John Cowper Powys' novel A Glastonbury Romance.
• Evelyn Waugh's novel Black Mischief.
• First issue of the journal of literary criticism Scrutiny: a quarterly review edited by F. R. Leavis (published in May).
• First issue of the magazine Woman's Own.

Births

• 4 January – Thelma Holt, actress and producer
• 29 January
  • Tommy Taylor, footballer (died 1958)
  • George Allen, footballer
• 1 February – John Nott, politician
• 27 February – Elizabeth Taylor, actress (died 2011)
• 25 April – William Roache, actor (Coronation Street)
• 26 April – Michael Smith, chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2000)
• 8 May – Phyllida Law, actress
• 12 May – Derek Malcolm, historian and critic
• 19 May – Alma Cogan, singer (died 1966)
• 24 May – Arnold Wesker, dramatist (died 2016)
• 30 May
  • Ray Cooney, farceur
  • Ivor Richard, politician
• 18 June – Geoffrey Hill, poet (died 2016)
• 22 June – Prunella Scales, actress
• 25 June – Peter Blake, artist
• 16 July – John Chilton, jazz trumpeter (died 2016)
• 6 August – Howard Hodgkin, painter and print-maker (died 2017)
• 17 August – V. S. Naipaul, writer
• 20 August – Anthony Ainley, actor (died 2004)
• 4 September – Dinsdale Landen, actor (died 2003)
• 7 September – Malcolm Bradbury, author and academic (died 2000)
• 11 September – Peter Anderson, footballer
• 27 September – Michael Colvin, politician (died 2000)
• 8 October – Ray Reardon, snooker player
• 10 October – Harry Smith, footballer
• 15 October – Vince Karalius, English rugby league footballer and coach (died 2008)
• 15 November – Petula Clark, singer, actress, and songwriter
• 18 November – Trevor Baxter, actor and playwright (died 2017)
• 20 November – Richard Dawson, comedian and game show host (died 2012)
• 21 November – Beryl Bainbridge, novelist (died 2010)
• 24 December – Colin Cowdrey, cricketer (died 2000)
• 28 December – Roy Hattersley, politician

Deaths

• 21 January – Lytton Strachey writer and biographer (born 1880)
• 24 January – Sir Alfred Yarrow, shipbuilder and philanthropist (born 1842)
• 10 February – Edgar Wallace, novelist and screenwriter (born 1875)
• 26 April – William Lockwood, cricketer (born 1868)
• 6 July – Kenneth Grahame, author (born 1859)
• 16 September – Ronald Ross, physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (born 1857)
• 12 November – Sir Dugald Clerk, mechanical engineer (born 1854)

See also

• List of British films of 1932

References

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