1918

In 1918, the Eighth Doctor visited the North Yorkshire village of Hawkswick in 1918. On 19 March, John Sykes was murdered. (PROSE: Casualties of War)

Gerald Carter and Harriet Derbyshire investigated a temporal phenomenon for Torchwood Three in Cardiff. A future version of Tommy Brockless told them to freeze his present self in the hospital to be awakened later. The future Tommy, his mind in shell shock, returned to this time not long after, with Toshiko Sato reminding him from 2008 to turn the "rift key" he had been given to stop the two time zones from collapsing on one another. (TV: To the Last Man)

In the United Kingdom, certain women over thirty gained the right to vote in the aftermath of World War I. (AUDIO: The Suffering)

Behind the scenes

January

• 1 - Leonard Trolley (Reynolds in TV: The Faceless Ones) was born.

February

• 9 - Doctor Who director Morris Barry was born.
• 23 - Bill Strutton, who would write TV: The Web Planet, was born.

March

• 1 - Roger Delgado, the first actor to portray the Master, was born in London.
• 23 - Anthony Jacobs (Doc Holliday in TV: The Gunfighters) was born.

July

• 7 - Brenda Bruce (Tilda in TV: Paradise Towers) was born.

August

• 14 - Patsy Smart (the Ghoul in TV: The Talons of Weng-Chiang) was born.
• 27 - Norman Mitchell, who played one of the policemen in TV: The Daleks' Master Plan, was born in Sheffield, Yorkshire, England.

• 28 - Tutte Lemkow, who played Kuiju in TV: Marco Polo, Ibrahim in TV: The Crusade and Cyclops in TV: The Myth Makers, was born in Oslo, Norway.

October

• 20 - Anton Diffring (De Flores in TV: Silver Nemesis) was born.

November

• 5 - Alan Tilvern, who played Forester in TV: Planet of Giants, was born in London.
• 11 - Stubby Kaye (Jerome Weismuller in TV: Delta and the Bannermen) was born.
• 27 - Peter Tuddenham, who did voice work for Doctor Who, was born.