1918 in the United Kingdom

Events from the year 1918 in the United Kingdom. This year sees the end of the First World War after four years, which Britain and its allies won (beginning the Interwar period), and a major advance in women's suffrage.

1918 in the United Kingdom
Other years
1916 | 1917 | 1918 (1918) | 1919 | 1920
Constituent countries of the United Kingdom
England | Ireland | Scotland | Wales
Sport

Incumbents

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Events

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2nd Lt Wilfred Owen, killed a week before the Armistice

Undated

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Publications

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Births

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** Arthur Dimmock, author and historian (died 2007)

Deaths

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See also

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References

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  2. ^ ""Battle of May Island" remembered". UK Defence Today. Ministry of Defence. 30 January 2002. Archived from the original on 2 February 2002. Retrieved 10 February 2010.
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  5. ^ Brown, Jonathan (3 July 2014). "A History of the First World War in 100 Moments: When corpses fell from the Nottinghamshire sky". The Independent. London. Archived from the original on 1 May 2022. Retrieved 7 July 2014.
  6. ^ "Carpathia Sunk; 5 of Crew Killed" (PDF). The New York Times. 20 July 1918. p. 4.
  7. ^ Berry, George (1970). Discovering Schools. Tring: Shire Publications. ISBN 0-85263-091-3.
  8. ^ "A New Record". Sheffield Evening Telegraph. 11 September 1918. p. 3.
  9. ^ Buxton, Ian (2008). Big Gun Monitors: Design, Construction and Operations 1914–1945 (2nd ed.). Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 978-1-59114-045-0.
  10. ^ Scott, R. Neil (2012). Many Were Held by the Sea: The Tragic Sinking of HMS Otranto. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 978-1-4422-1342-5.
  11. ^ Massie, Robert K. (2004). Castles of Steel: Britain, Germany, and the Winning of the Great War at Sea. New York: Ballantine Books. ISBN 0-345-40878-0.
  12. ^ Biger, Gideon (2004). The Boundaries of Modern Palestine, 1840–1947. London: Routledge. pp. 55, 164. ISBN 978-0-7146-5654-0.
  13. ^ Wainwright, Martin (23 August 2010). "British warships sunk 90 years ago found off Estonian coast". The Guardian. Retrieved 24 August 2010.
  14. ^ Nine lessons and carols: History of the service, King's College Chapel, archived from the original on 15 March 2008, retrieved 9 March 2008.
  15. ^ Ward, Margaret (1983). Unmanageable Revolutionaries: Women and Irish nationalism. London: Pluto Press. p. 137. ISBN 0-86104-700-1.
  16. ^ Turner, Jenny (17 April 2006). "Dame Muriel Spark". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 11 February 2023. Retrieved 3 March 2023.
  17. ^ Dibble, Jeremy, "Parry, Sir (Charles) Hubert Hastings, baronet (1848–1918)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004, accessed 18 April 2013 (subscription or UK public library membership required)