observed with two minutes silence at 11:00 hrs. December Cunliffe Committee on Currency and Foreign Exchange Rates recommends an early return to an effective Gold standard. Nurses Registration Act 1919 passed. 1 December – Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor becomes the first woman to take her seat in the House of Commons, and the second to be elected, having stood at the Plymouth Sutton by-election on 28 November to succeed her husband as a Unionist member. 15 December – meat rationing ends. 22 December – a bill "to provide for the better government of Ireland" is introduced into the House of Commons, proposing two parliaments: one for the six counties of north-east Ulster and one for the other twenty-six. 23 December – Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act removes legal disabilities on women entering the secular professions. 25 December – opening of Cliftonhill stadium in Coatbridge, the home of Albion Rovers F.C. The opening match sees them lose 2–0 to St Mirren. 30 December – Lincoln's Inn, in London, admits its first female bar student. Undated University Grants Committee begins to function. Panacea Society founded by Mabel Barltrop ("Octavia") in Bedford as the Community of the Holy Ghost. Ongoing – 1918 flu pandemic. Publications February – Richmal Crompton's anarchic schoolboy William Brown is introduced in the first published Just William story, "Rice-Mould" in Home magazine. 22 March – The Children's Newspaper, edited by Arthur Mee, begins publication. Daisy Ashford's novel The Young Visiters (written in 1890 when she was nine). Gilbert Frankau's novel Peter Jackson, Cigar Merchant: a romance of married life. Dean William Inge's first series of Outspoken Essays. John Maynard Keynes' book The Economic Consequences of the Peace. W. Somerset Maugham's novel The Moon and Sixpence. The War Poems of Siegfried Sassoon. Arthur Graeme West's posthumous The Diary of a Dead Officer. P. G. Wodehouse's short story collection My Man Jeeves. Births 1 January – Sheila Mercier, actress (died 2019) 8 January – Gabrielle Blunt, actress (died 2014) 11 January Denis Avey, World War II veteran and memoirist (died 2015) Margot Rufus Isaacs, Marchioness of Reading, aristocrat and campaigner (died 2015) 21 January Eric Brown, World War II naval & test pilot (died 2016) Jim Wallwork, World War II glider pilot (died 2013) 20 January – Derick Ashe, diplomat (died 2000) 23 January – Bob Paisley, football player and manager (died 1996) 26 January – Bill Nicholson, footballer and manager (died