This is a summary of 1940 in music in the United Kingdom. 30 January – Sophie Wyss gives the first complete performance of Benjamin Britten's Les Illuminations...

notable events in music that took place in the year 1940. 1940 in British music 1940 in Norwegian music 1940 in country music 1940 in jazz January 30...

This is a list of events from British radio in 1940. 7 January – The BBC Forces Programme begins broadcasting in the United Kingdom; it becomes the most...

list of British films released in 1940. 1940 in British music 1940 in British television 1940 in the United Kingdom "Garrison Follies (1940)". Archived...

This is a summary of the year 2024 in British music. 1 January – BBC One sees in the New Year with the concert Rick Astley Rocks New Year's Eve. Rick...

This is a list of British television related events from 1940. There are no events for 1940 in British television as broadcasting has been suspended for...

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1940 January February March April May June July August September October November December Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1940. 1940 (MCMXL) was...

Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square" is a British romantic popular song written in 1939 and published in 1940, with lyrics by Eric Maschwitz and music by Manning...

The year 1940 in film involved some significant events, including the premieres of the Walt Disney films Pinocchio and Fantasia. The top ten 1940 released...

was fought until 10 June 1940 and saw the escape of King Haakon VII and Crown Prince Olav to the United Kingdom. A British, French and Polish expeditionary...

The Thief of Bagdad is a 1940 British Technicolor historical fantasy film, produced by Alexander Korda and directed by Michael Powell, Ludwig Berger and...

This list of British music hall performers includes a related list of British Variety entertainers. Music Hall, Britain's first form of commercial mass...

Baronet (born 5 May 1940), is a British American television, film, music video, and theatre director. Beginning his career in British television, Lindsay-Hogg...

Gaslight (released in the United States as Angel Street) is a 1940 British psychological thriller directed by Thorold Dickinson starring Anton Walbrook...

colonial history of the United States began in 1607 with the colonization of Jamestown, Virginia. Music of all genres and origins emerged as the United...

Kinematograph Weekly, it was the most popular film of 1940 in Britain. When it premiered at the Radio City Music Hall, Frank S. Nugent of The New York Times called...

from the year 1940 in the United Kingdom. The year was dominated by Britain's involvement in the Second World War, which commenced in September the previous...

Ireland, became distribution bodies. In January 1940, during the Second World War, the Council for the Encouragement of Music and the Arts (CEMA), was appointed...

The year 1940 saw a number of significant events in radio broadcasting history. 5 January: FM radio is demonstrated for the Federal Communications Commission...

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began Fall Rot ("Case Red") on 5 June 1940. The remaining Allied divisions in France, sixty French and two British, made a determined stand on the Somme...

The British Raj (/rɑːdʒ/ RAHJ; from Hindustani rāj, 'reign', 'rule' or 'government') was the rule of the British Crown on the Indian subcontinent, lasting...

This is a list of British billionaires by net worth, based on an annual assessment of wealth and assets compiled by Bloomberg, The Sunday Times, and by...

of 1934 in music in the United Kingdom. February – Sir Edward Elgar dies and is buried next to his wife at St Wulstan's Roman Catholic Church in Little...

This is a summary of 1924 in music in the United Kingdom. 13 May – Edward Elgar is appointed Master of the King's Musick in succession to Sir Walter Parratt...

a generally accurate account of the Battle of Britain, when in the summer and autumn of 1940 the British RAF inflicted a strategic defeat on the Luftwaffe...

This is a summary of 1930 in music in the United Kingdom. 8 February – Singer Sam Browne makes his first recording with Bert Ambrose's band on Decca....

success in mainstream British music than they did in the U.S., despite a certain amount of disdain from the music press. Britain's largest music festival...

objective of the German forces was to compel Britain to agree to a negotiated peace settlement. In July 1940, the air and sea blockade began, with the Luftwaffe...