for the first time. October Alan Turing's paper Computing machinery and intelligence, proposing the Turing test, is published in Mind. A group of Conservative politicians publishes the tract One Nation: a Tory approach to social policy. November – attempt to hold the Second World Peace Congress at Sheffield City Hall is thwarted by the British authorities preventing many international delegates from entering the country and it is relocated to Warsaw. 5 November – the BBC Light Programme first broadcasts Life with the Lyons, the UK's first sitcom, featuring British-domiciled American couple Bebe Daniels and Ben Lyon. 28 November – James Corbitt is hanged at Strangeways Prison, Manchester, for the premeditated murder in August of his mistress at Ashton-under-Lyne; he is well acquainted with his executioner Albert Pierrepoint in Pierrepoint's other calling as a pub landlord in Oldham. 10 December Bertrand Russell wins the Nobel Prize in Literature "in recognition of his varied and significant writings in which he champions humanitarian ideals and freedom of thought". Cecil Frank Powell wins the Nobel Prize in Physics "for his development of the photographic method of studying nuclear processes and his discoveries regarding mesons made with this method". 25 December – the Stone of Scone, the traditional coronation stone of Scottish monarchs, English monarchs and more recently British monarchs, is stolen from London's Westminster Abbey by a group of four Scottish students with nationalist beliefs. It turns up in Scotland on 11 April 1951. 28 December – an order to designate the Peak District as the first of the National parks of the United Kingdom is submitted to the Minister of Town and Country Planning for approval. Undated Ysgol Syr Thomas Jones opens in Amlwch on Anglesey as Britain's first purpose-built comprehensive school. Construction of Shoeburyness Boom, a Cold War submarine defensive boom across the Thames Estuary, begins. Publications Agatha Christie's Miss Marple novel A Murder is Announced. Catherine Cookson's first novel Kate Hannigan. William Cooper's novel Scenes from Provincial Life. Marion Crawford's royal biography The Little Princesses: the Story of the Queen's Childhood by her Nanny. Elizabeth David's recipe book A Book of Mediterranean Food. C. S. Forester's novel Mr. Midshipman Hornblower. Doris Lessing's novel The Grass is Singing. C. S. Lewis's novel The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, first of The Chronicles of Narnia series (16 October). Mervyn Peake's novel Gormenghast, second of the eponymous series. Barbara Pym's novel Some Tame