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The Illustrated London News 1922
1922 Tutankhamun and The Illustrated London News
Other Events of this year in the Illustrated London News
October 18th - British Broadcasting Company (later Corporation) formed BBC
May 13th 1922 - F.G. Kellaway P.C., M.P. Postmaster-General
Another interesting announcement he made was the decision
to establish distributing stations for a "broadcast" system of wireless telephony.
October 18th - British Broadcasting Company (later Corporation) formed BBC
- January 15th - The Irish Free State began under President Arthur Griffith
- August 22nd - Irish Nationalist leader Michael Collins shot dead in Cork
- October 7th - First woman Senator sworn in in the USA
- October 18th - British Broadcasting Company (later Corporation) formed BBC
- October 19th - Coalition government ended in UK:
Bonar Law (Canadian Born) becomes new Prime Minister,
succeeding Lloyd George, leader of the liberals - October 30th - Benito Mussolini takes over as dictator
of Italy (Blackshirts) - November 26th - Treasures of Tutankhamun's tomb
first revealed by Howard Carter (he was backed by the Earl of Carnarvon) - The AA has 160,000 members, car ownership is rising fast
- TS Eliot (american by birth British by adoption)
published the Waste Land in the Criterion magazine - James Joyce publishes Ulysses in Dublin which was banned in the Britain and USA
- The USSR formed by Soviet States
December 3rd - HMV New Records
November 18th
- Armistice Day: 2 minutes silence throughout the empire
- Forest of Compiegne (Armistice Crossroads and Memorial; Where the Armistice was signed)
- Liverpool War Memorials
- War Memorials at home and abroad
- Victory Ball
- Turkey:
The crux of the Near East Crisis: Constantinople
General Rafet Pasha and British Staff Officer
Turkey General Rafet Pasha - General Elections (Astor, Clavering, Churchill, Franklin, Russell)
- Civil War in Dublin
the Ladies Squash Rackets Championships (S. Huntsman; Nancy Cave, Joyce Cave)
The Gorilla as a London Pet: The Civilising of Chula
Lord Mayors Show
Italy King Victor Greeting Signor Mussolini
Personalities of the Week
(small pics of: Leverhulme, Bethell, MacLay, Hume Williams, Aston, Soddy,
Muspratt,
Game, Mildmay, Bull, Pollock, Horwood, Ludlow, Bhore, Watson)
the Life of Leander Starr Jameson
Our Notebook by G.K. Chesterton (Illustrations of Shelley's tragedy "the Cenci")
Radio Notes (Gigantic Loud Speaking Device ;
Motor Car fitted with Radio Receiving
Apparatus)
Cars (Rover ; Austro-Daimler ; Mr Andre Citroen)
The World of Women (fashion)
The World of the Theatre:
The late Alfred Capus
Movies: "The Virgin Queen" (Diana Cooper and Carlyle Blackwell)
"Blood and Sand"(Rudolph Valentino with Nita Naldi)
"a Bill of Divorcement" (Mr. Malcolm Keen and Miss Constance Binney)
The World of Music (Bach)
Autumn in the Woods: the Field Mouse (colour plate)
Girl with a Cat by Perronneau (double page colour plate)
Natural Colour Photography in the Antarctic and Macquarie Island (colour page)
- Holothurians from 1700 Fathoms
- A Star Fish
- Rocky Islets off Adelie Land
- Boulders on Macquarie Island
- A Wreck on the Beach
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