London in the Interwar Period
The atlas holds 49 people and 98 moments here, from 1918 to 1939. The most recorded lives are Charlie Chaplin, Glynis Johns and George Orwell.
Notable people
J. R. R. Tolkien
from 1936 to 1939
2 moments here
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was an English philologist, university professor, and author of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.…
Katherine Mansfield
from 1918 to 1922
4 moments here
Katherine Mansfield (Kathleen Mansfield Beauchamp, later Murry) was a New Zealand modernist short-story writer, poet, critic and diarist.…
Lawrence Bragg
from 1934 to 1937
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Australian-born British physicist and X-ray crystallographer. Bragg shared the 1915 Nobel Prize in Physics with his father, William Henry Bragg, for…
Macfarlane Burnet
from 1925 to 1932
2 moments here
Australian virologist and immunologist Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet, known as Macfarlane Burnet, shared the 1960 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine…
Mahatma Gandhi
in 1931
1 moment here
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was an Indian lawyer, anti-colonial nationalist, political ethicist, and leader of mass nonviolent resistance.…
Max Theiler
in 1922
1 moment here
South African-American virologist and physician whose work at Harvard, the Rockefeller Foundation, and Yale contributed to the development of the 17D…
Miguel Ángel Asturias
in 1923
1 moment here
Guatemalan poet-diplomat, novelist, playwright, journalist, and 1967 Nobel laureate. Asturias’s documented life moved between Guatemala, Europe,…
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
in 1930
1 moment here
Muhammad Ali Jinnah was a barrister and political leader who led the All-India Muslim League and became Pakistan’s first governor-general after…
Muhammad Iqbal
from 1931 to 1932
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Muhammad Iqbal (1877–1938) was a South Asian philosopher, poet, lawyer, and political figure.…
Pablo Picasso
in 1919
1 moment here
Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and co-founder of Cubism. Born in Málaga, Picasso trained in A Coruña, Barcelona, and Madrid…
Paramahansa Yogananda
in 1936
1 moment here
Indian and American Hindu monk, yogi, teacher, and founder of Self-Realization Fellowship and Yogoda Satsanga Society of India.…
P. L. Travers
in 1924
1 moment here
Pamela Lyndon Travers, born Helen Lyndon Goff, was an Australian-British writer, actress, journalist, and creator of the Mary Poppins books.…
Ronald Ross
in 1932
1 moment here
British physician, malariologist, mathematician, writer, and 1902 Nobel laureate. Ross established the mosquito’s role in malaria transmission…
Rudyard Kipling
in 1936
1 moment here
English journalist, novelist, poet, and short-story writer. Born in Bombay, Kipling spent his childhood in India and England, worked as a journalist…
Salvador Dalí
from 1936 to 1938
2 moments here
Spanish painter, sculptor, writer, designer, filmmaker, and leading exponent of Surrealism. Born in Figueres, Dalí trained in Madrid, joined the…
Sarojini Naidu
from 1919 to 1931
2 moments here
Indian poet, nationalist, women’s-rights advocate, president of the Indian National Congress, and first governor of the United Provinces.…
Sergei Rachmaninoff
from 1922 to 1938
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Russian composer, virtuoso pianist, and conductor. Born in the Novgorod Governorate of the Russian Empire, he studied and worked chiefly in Saint…
Sigmund Freud
from 1938 to 1939
4 moments here
Austrian neurologist and founder of psychoanalysis. This chronology traces documented locations from his Moravian birthplace and Viennese education…
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
in 1930
1 moment here
Indian-American astrophysicist whose work established the Chandrasekhar limit and ranged across stellar structure, stellar dynamics, radiative…
T. S. Eliot
in 1925
1 moment here
Thomas Stearns Eliot was a St. Louis-born poet, critic, editor, and playwright who studied in Massachusetts, Paris, Germany, and Oxford before making…
Tunku Abdul Rahman
in 1939
1 moment here
Malaysian statesman, UMNO leader, chief minister of the Federation of Malaya, and first prime minister of Malaya and Malaysia.…
Virginia Woolf
in 1924
1 moment here
English novelist, essayist, critic and publisher; a central figure in modernist literature and the Bloomsbury Group.…
Vivien Leigh
from 1931 to 1935
3 moments here
British actress Vivien Leigh (born Vivian Mary Hartley) was acclaimed for stage work and for Academy Award-winning performances as Scarlett O'Hara in…
Woodrow Wilson
in 1918
1 moment here
Thomas Woodrow Wilson was an American academic, governor of New Jersey, and the 28th president of the United States.…
Moments
- 1931 Detention at Bethnal Green police station George Orwell
- 1931 Judgement Day at the Phoenix Theatre Glynis Johns
- 1931 Second Round Table Conference Muhammad Iqbal
- 1931 Second Round Table Conference Sarojini Naidu
- 1931 Drama training at RADA Vivien Leigh
- 1931 Presents City Lights at the Dominion Charlie Chaplin
- 1931 Marriage to Nora Barnacle James Joyce
- 1931 Lives at Kingsley Hall Mahatma Gandhi
- 1932 National Institute for Medical Research fellowship Macfarlane Burnet
- 1932 Third Round Table Conference Muhammad Iqbal
- 1932 Birth at Heathwood Elizabeth Taylor
- 1932 Third trip abroad: England Helen Keller
- 1932 Death in London Ronald Ross
- 1933 Return to London from the Soviet Union Jomo Kenyatta
- 1933 Addresses Royal Albert Hall Albert Einstein
- 1933 Birth of daughter Suzanne Vivien Leigh
- 1934 Murder at Monte Carlo production Errol Flynn
- 1934 Bookseller at Booklovers' Corner George Orwell
- 1934 Royal Institution Christmas Lectures Lawrence Bragg
- 1935 Anthropology study at the London School of Economics Jomo Kenyatta
- 1935 Studies at University College London Jomo Kenyatta
- 1935 Meeting Laurence Olivier at the Savoy Grill Vivien Leigh
- 1935 Residence at Lawford Road George Orwell
- 1935 Buckie's Bears at the Garrick Theatre Glynis Johns
- 1936 St Helena at the Old Vic Glynis Johns
- 1936 World Encyclopaedia address H. G. Wells
- 1936 Death at Middlesex Hospital Rudyard Kipling
- 1936 Appears at London Surrealist exhibition Salvador Dalí
- 1936 Address at Whitefield's Congregational Church Paramahansa Yogananda
- 1936 European journey with Polly Thomson Helen Keller
- 1936 British Academy Beowulf lecture J. R. R. Tolkien
- 1937 Return to LSE lecturing Bertrand Russell
- 1937 Judgement Day at the Strand Theatre Glynis Johns
- 1937 Director of the National Physical Laboratory Lawrence Bragg
- 1937 Convalescence at Greenwich George Orwell
- 1937 Emergency operation in London Ernest Rutherford
- 1938 Quiet Wedding at Wyndham's Theatre Glynis Johns
- 1938 Henry Wood jubilee concert Sergei Rachmaninoff
- 1938 Reaches London and takes temporary refuge Sigmund Freud
- 1938 Worked at the London embassy John F. Kennedy
- 1938 Meets Sigmund Freud Salvador Dalí
- 1938 Moves into Maresfield Gardens Sigmund Freud
- 1938 Undergoes his final operation in London Sigmund Freud
- 1939 Bar examination in London Tunku Abdul Rahman
- 1939 Government Code and Cypher School course J. R. R. Tolkien
- 1939 Attended Parliament's war speeches John F. Kennedy
- 1939 Returned to wartime London John F. Kennedy
- 1939 Dies at Maresfield Gardens Sigmund Freud