London in World War I
The atlas holds 14 people and 27 moments here, from 1914 to 1918. The most recorded lives are Katherine Mansfield, T. S. Eliot and Alfred Hitchcock.
Notable people
Agatha Christie
in 1918
1 moment here
English novelist, playwright, and memoirist, internationally known for detective fiction featuring Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple.…
Alfred Deakin
in 1916
1 moment here
Australian barrister, journalist, federation advocate and Australia’s second prime minister.…
Alfred Hitchcock
from 1914 to 1917
2 moments here
English filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock (1899–1980), known as the “Master of Suspense,” worked in British cinema before relocating to Hollywood in 1939.…
Bertrand Russell
in 1918
1 moment here
Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, was an English philosopher, mathematician, logician, writer, and public campaigner.…
B. R. Ambedkar
in 1916
2 moments here
Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar was an Indian jurist, economist, social reformer, politician, principal architect of India’s Constitution, and a leading…
Herbert Hoover
in 1914
1 moment here
Herbert Clark Hoover was an American mining engineer, international relief administrator, U.S.…
John Maynard Keynes
from 1914 to 1915
2 moments here
English economist, civil servant, Cambridge fellow, and British international negotiator whose work shaped modern macroeconomics.…
Katherine Mansfield
from 1916 to 1918
5 moments here
Katherine Mansfield (Kathleen Mansfield Beauchamp, later Murry) was a New Zealand modernist short-story writer, poet, critic and diarist.…
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
in 1914
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…
Sarojini Naidu
from 1914 to 1917
2 moments here
Indian poet, nationalist, women’s-rights advocate, president of the Indian National Congress, and first governor of the United Provinces.…
Srinivasa Ramanujan
from 1914 to 1917
2 moments here
Indian mathematician whose documented life moved between Tamil Nadu, southern India, England, and back to India.…
T. S. Eliot
from 1914 to 1917
4 moments here
Thomas Stearns Eliot was a St. Louis-born poet, critic, editor, and playwright who studied in Massachusetts, Paris, Germany, and Oxford before making…
Virginia Woolf
from 1914 to 1915
2 moments here
English novelist, essayist, critic and publisher; a central figure in modernist literature and the Bloomsbury Group.…
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
- 1914 Technical clerk at Henley Telegraph and Cable Alfred Hitchcock
- 1914 London at outbreak of World War I Herbert Hoover
- 1914 Congress delegation in London Muhammad Ali Jinnah
- 1914 Arrival in London Srinivasa Ramanujan
- 1914 Called to London at outbreak of war John Maynard Keynes
- 1914 Reception for Gandhi Sarojini Naidu
- 1914 First meeting with Ezra Pound T. S. Eliot
- 1914 Move to Richmond Green Virginia Woolf
- 1915 Treasury appointment John Maynard Keynes
- 1915 Birkbeck teaching post T. S. Eliot
- 1915 Move to Hogarth House Virginia Woolf
- 1915 Marriage to Vivienne Haigh-Wood T. S. Eliot
- 1916 Medical journey to London Alfred Deakin
- 1916 Arrival in London for legal and economic study B. R. Ambedkar
- 1916 Residence at 3 Gower Street Katherine Mansfield
- 1916 Study at Gray's Inn and LSE B. R. Ambedkar
- 1917 Royal Engineers exercise in Hyde Park Alfred Hitchcock
- 1917 Suffrage advocacy before the Joint Select Committee Sarojini Naidu
- 1917 Sanatorium treatment in London Srinivasa Ramanujan
- 1917 Lloyds Bank employment T. S. Eliot
- 1917 Chelsea studio Katherine Mansfield
- 1918 Imprisonment in Brixton Prison Bertrand Russell
- 1918 Return to London with Ida Baker Katherine Mansfield
- 1918 Marriage to John Middleton Murry Katherine Mansfield
- 1918 Move to Hampstead Katherine Mansfield
- 1918 Moved to St John's Wood Agatha Christie
- 1918 Meetings in Britain Woodrow Wilson