what important event happened around england in the 1920s?

Answer 1

John Logie Baird invents the first working mechanical television system (1925). In 1928 he invents and demonstrates the first colour television.

Penicillin is discovered by Sir Alexander Fleming (1928)

The Irish Free State gains independence from the United Kingdom in 1922

First Labour Government of Ramsay MacDonald formed in the United Kingdom. (In May 1929 a minority Labour government headed by Ramsay MacDonald came to office with Liberal support.)

In October 1929 the Stock Market Crash in New York heralded the Great Depression in the UK. The effects on the industrial areas of Britain were immediate and devastating, as demand for British products collapsed. By the end of 1930 unemployment had more than doubled from 1 million to 2.5 million (20% of the insured workforce), and exports had fallen in value by 50%. Government revenues contracted as national income fell, while the cost of assisting the jobless rose. The industrial areas were hardest hit, along with the coal mining districts. London and the southeast were relatively less hurt. In 1933, 30% of Glaswegians were unemployed due to severe decline in the heavy industry.

James Joyce publishes Ulysses

Women's suffrage movement continues to make gains as women obtain full voting rights in England in 1928; and women begin to enter the workplace in larger numbers

The tomb of Tutankhamun is discovered intact by Howard Carter (1922). This begins a second revival of Egyptomania.

Answer 2

There was a General Strike in 1926.
Take a look at;-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UK_General_Strike_of_1926

Answer 3

Um, the Beatles?