World Socialist Web Site

British Agent (1934): Early Hollywood looks at the Bolsheviks

HITLER: We are not ready for this turn of affairs. You have completely bungled the work you were supposedly directing with judicious ability…. You are trying to force us to act in Russia before we are ...
Nature

The British Pharmaceutical Codex, 1934: an Imperial Dispensatory for the Use of Medical Practitioners and Pharmacists

THE materia medica in use throughout the British Empire can be divided into two groups, those admitted to, and those excluded from, the “British Pharmacopoeia”, 1932. The second group is, on the whole ...
Sports Illustrated

How England's Henry Cotton Captivated a Country, Captured the 1934 British Open

Royal St. George’s Golf Club is hosting the British Open for the 15th time in what has become an exciting event over a docile, if not quirky, links course. It will be difficult, though, to top the ...
Daily Mail

Wing and country: How 40,000 pigeons were released to mark the start of the 1934 British Empire Games during reign of George V... nearly a century before the Commonwealth Games ...

All eyes are on Birmingham today as the Commonwealth Games get underway. Athletes from around the world have flocked to the city to take part, along with tens of thousands of spectators. But the first ...
Nature

British Rainfall 1934

THE total rainfall during 1934 in the British Isles was exactly normal or 100 per cent, the figure for England and Wales being 95, Scotland 110 and Ireland 105. The run of mainly dry months which ...