Arts and Literature
- May - W. B. Yeats concludes a lecture tour (begun in October 1919) in the United States and returns to settle in Oxford. In this year also he publishes The Second Coming.
- Hamilton Harty becomes chief conductor of the Hallé Orchestra in Manchester.
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