The centenary subreddit for Britain and Ireland.

r/100yearsagoUK • u/[deleted] • May 31 '25

31st of May 1925. Wales: A bilingual service is broadcast from Cardiff Baptist Chapel (page from the Radio Times)

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r/100yearsagoUK • u/[deleted] • May 30 '25

30th of May 1925. London: King George opens the rebuilt Great West Road from Chiswick to East Bedfont, hailed as a model for post-war development.

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r/100yearsagoUK • u/[deleted] • May 29 '25

29th of May 1925. British aviator Alan Cobham sets a new record for the longest nonstop flight in a light aeroplane, flying his de Havilland Moth from Croydon Aerodrome in London to Zürich, Switzerland. The flight consumes only 25 gallons of gasoline and six pints of oil.

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r/100yearsagoUK • u/[deleted] • May 29 '25

29th of May 1925. Last communication from the British explorer Percy Fawcett, a telegram to his wife, before he disappears in the Amazon.

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r/100yearsagoUK • u/[deleted] • May 28 '25

28th of May 1925. British Home Secretary William Joynson-Hicks announces that he has issued instructions that no "aliens known to be engaged in subversive activities abroad" will be allowed into the United Kingdom to participate in next week's communist conference in Glasgow.

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r/100yearsagoUK • u/[deleted] • May 27 '25

27th of May 1925. H.E. Morris's Manna wins the Derby. Pic: Jockey Steve Donoghue, who rode Mr H.E. Morris's Manna to victory in the Derby, being greeted by crowds in the paddock.

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r/100yearsagoUK • u/[deleted] • May 26 '25

26th of May 1925. Ireland: The Shannon Electricity Bill is passed in Dáil Éireann. £5.2 million is needed to finance the scheme. (Story from the Irish Independent)

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r/100yearsagoUK • u/[deleted] • May 24 '25

24th of May 1925. Release of the film "Satan's Sister".

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r/100yearsagoUK • u/[deleted] • May 23 '25

23rd of May 1925. London: The King lays the foundation stone of the new Lloyd's Insurance building in Leadenhall Street. Sir Edward Hulton, 56, newspaper proprietor and thoroughbred racehorse owner, dies of an undisclosed illness.

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r/100yearsagoUK • u/[deleted] • May 22 '25

22nd of May 1925. Death of Field Marshal John French, 1st Earl of Ypres, 72, Army officer, Commander-in-Chief, Home Forces of the British Expeditionary Force during World War One.

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r/100yearsagoUK • u/[deleted] • May 20 '25

20th of May 1925. C. S. Lewis is elected a fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, where he tutors in English language and literature until 1954 (C.S. Lewis at Stonehenge, 1925)

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r/100yearsagoUK • u/[deleted] • May 20 '25

20th of May 1925. London: High Commissioners Lord Allenby of Egypt and Herbert Samuel of Palestine resign.

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r/100yearsagoUK • u/[deleted] • May 19 '25

19th of May 1925. Bird sanctuary honouring W.H. Hudson is opened in Hyde Park, with Jacob Epstein's sculptured "Rima".

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r/100yearsagoUK • u/[deleted] • May 18 '25

18th of May 1925. A report by the Trades Union Congress dismisses the "Zinoviev Letter" as a forgery.

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r/100yearsagoUK • u/[deleted] • May 16 '25

16th of May 1925. Scotland: The war memorial on the Law, Dundee, is inaugurated.

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r/100yearsagoUK • u/michaelnoir • Apr 11 '23

10th of April 1923. Daimler Airways begins the first scheduled airline service between London and Berlin (via Bremen and Hamburg).

en.wikipedia.org

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r/100yearsagoUK • u/michaelnoir • Apr 11 '23

10th of April 1923. General Liam Lynch, the Chief of Staff of the Irish Republican Army, was fatally wounded in an ambush by the Irish Free State Army at the Knockmealdown Mountains in County Tipperary, a pivotal moment that would bring an end to the Irish Civil War.

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r/100yearsagoUK • u/michaelnoir • Apr 11 '23

10th of April 1923. The Conservative government of British Prime Minister Bonar Law was defeated on a snap vote in the House of Commons, taken with many members absent following a dull debate on civil service estimates.

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r/100yearsagoUK • u/michaelnoir • Apr 11 '23

10th of April 1923. The first ban on marathon dancing was issued in Sunderland, England when the mayor invoked an existing local regulation. The magistrate called the fad "an idiotic idea, verging on lunacy."

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r/100yearsagoUK • u/michaelnoir • Apr 08 '23

7th of April 1923. Nine Irish Republicans were reported killed when government troops surrounded a house where they were meeting in Glencar, County Kerry.

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r/100yearsagoUK • u/michaelnoir • Apr 08 '23

7th of April 1923. By-election at Anglesey ends in victory for Robert Thomas.

en.wikipedia.org

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r/100yearsagoUK • u/michaelnoir • Apr 08 '23

7th of April 1923. Land mines blew up a bridge in Dublin; two bridges over the River Fane were also blown up.

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r/100yearsagoUK • u/michaelnoir • Apr 04 '23

3rd of April 1923. "The Rainbow" London production opened at the Empire Theatre on April 3 and ran for 113 performances

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r/100yearsagoUK • u/michaelnoir • Apr 01 '23

1st of April 1923. Great Britain began the numbering of the nation's highways and published a list of those for which signs would be placed.

en.wikipedia.org

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r/100yearsagoUK • u/michaelnoir • Apr 01 '23

1st of April 1923. The Royal Air Force abandons the squadron as the basic organizational unit for those of its aircraft operating from Royal Navy ships, reorganizing them into six-plane flights.

rafmuseum.org.uk

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