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1927 in the United Kingdom

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1927 in the United Kingdom
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Events from the year 1927 in the United Kingdom.

This year saw the renaming of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland into the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, recognising in name the Irish Free State's independence, it having come into existence with the Anglo-Irish Treaty in 1922.

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  2. ^ Motor Sport March 1927 p. 282; September 1927, p. 77
  3. ^ Noble, Richard (1999). Thrust. Bantam Books. p. 401.
  4. ^ a b c d e Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-14-102715-0.
  5. ^ "Sunbeam land speed engine restored". BBC News.
  6. ^ "Clubs Lose Places in English Soccer". The New York Times. 7 May 1927.
  7. ^ "Goal.com's Top 50 English Players: George Camsell (45)". Goal. 2 May 2009. Archived from the original on 16 October 2012. Retrieved 13 June 2012.
  8. ^ Pember, Doloranda Hannah (2004). "Gleitze, Mercedes (1900–1981)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Online ed.). Oxford University Press. Retrieved 23 September 2015.
  9. ^ Harris, R. O. (February 1970). "Notable British Gales of the Past 50 Years". Weather. 25 (2): 57–68. doi:10.1002/j.1477-8696.1970.tb03233.x.
  10. ^ Townsin, Alan (1981). Leyland Titans 1927–1942. Glossop: Transport Publishing Co. ISBN 0-903839-56-3.
  11. ^ "1928–1978: The first 50 Years of Rediffusion". Rediffusion Ltd. 2010. Retrieved 26 March 2011.
  12. ^ "Londoners' Great Skid in the Freak Frost". Daily Mirror. London. 22 December 1927. p. 1.
  13. ^ Simons, Paul (21 December 2017). "When London woke up to 'Slippery Wednesday'". The Times. London. Retrieved 23 December 2022.
  14. ^ Holden, Roger N. (1998). Stott & Sons: architects of the Lancashire cotton mill. Lancaster: Carnegie Publishing. p. 169. ISBN 1-85936-047-5.
  15. ^ Hill, Alan (2007). Herbert Sutcliffe. Cricket Maestro. Stroud: Stadia. ISBN 978-0-7524-4350-8.
  16. ^ "Our History". National Gardens Scheme. Archived from the original on 27 September 2011. Retrieved 25 February 2011.
  17. ^ Whitmore, Greg (4 April 2022). "June Brown: a life in pictures". The Guardian. Retrieved 4 April 2022.
  18. ^ Earl of Crawford and Balcarres obituary
  19. ^ Barnett, Laura (4 August 2010). "Harold Chapman's best shot". The Guardian. Retrieved 4 November 2010.
  20. ^ "Obituary – Colin Brittan". tottenhamhotspur.com. Retrieved 2 June 2020.
  21. ^ "Obituary: Geoffrey Palmer, star of Butterflies and As Time Goes By". The Scotsman. Retrieved 16 November 2020.
  22. ^ "Wolfendale, Sir Arnold (Whittaker)". Who's Who 2013, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2013; online edn, Oxford University Press.(subscription required)
  23. ^ George Andrew Panichas (1968). Promise of Greatness: the War of 1914-1918. John Day Company. p. 559.
  24. ^ Lumsden, Andrew (January 2014). "Wright, Anthony Edgar Gartside [pseud. Antony Grey] (1927–2010), gay rights campaigner". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, online edn (subscription required). Oxford University Press. Retrieved 30 April 2014.
  25. ^ "Liza Picard obituary". The Guardian. 10 June 2022. Retrieved 12 June 2022.