Stalin elected General Secretary, USSR 1922

John Logie Baird demonstrates television 1926

BBC created 1922

October revolution, Russia 1917

Wall Street crash 1929

First World War 1914-1918

Mussolini comes to power in Italy 1922

Louis Blériot flies the English Channel 1909

Cracow Workshops established in Poland 1913

Bauhaus moves to Dessau 1925

Deutsche Werkbund founded in Germany 1907

Cranbrook Academy of Art established, USA 1925

Italian Futurist Manifesto launched 1909

Museum of Modern Art founded, New York 1929

Constructivism begins in Russia 1917

Vkhutemas art and design school established, Moscow 1920

British Empire exhibition, Wembley, London 1924

Picasso paints Les Demoiselles d'Avignon 1907

De Stijl founded in Holland 1917

Czech cubism begins 1911

Bauhaus founded in Weimar, Germany 1919

Danish Society of Arts and Crafts and Industrial Design founded 1907

Exhibits in Cheltenham 1922

Joins to fight in WW1 1914

Joins family business 1908

Marries Toni Denning 1921

Russell & Sons exhibit in V&A entrance 1923

Rejoins family business 1919

Lygon Cottage acquired as showroom 1920

Starts building house at Kingcombe 1925

Opens showroom, 28 Wigmore Street, London 1929

Russell & Sons win gold award at Paris 1925

Stops designing for the company 1930

R.D.Russell trains at the Architectural Association 1924