Arts and Literature
- Dorothy Squires marries Roger Moore.
- Thomas Parry (later Sir Thomas) becomes head of the National Library of Wales.
- Waldo Williams leaves the Baptist denomination and becomes a Quaker.
- Robert Frank photographs a Glamorgan mining village for U.S.Camera.
- Susan Williams-Ellis joins her father, Sir Clough Williams-Ellis, in his work on the village of Portmeirion.
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