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Tag: 1920s

An Art Deco tour of London – part 1

Posted by admin on June 6, 2017June 6, 2017 in 20th Century, Local

Inspired by my recent obsession with watching old episodes of Agatha Christie’s Poirot, set in the 1930s, I decided to take a self-guided tour of some of the best examples of Art Deco architecture in central London. The first thing…

The baby cage: a 1930s parenting solution

Posted by admin on April 24, 2014September 24, 2014 in 20th Century, General

I noticed a picture of a baby cage made it into the Metro the other day. It seems that this historical oddity is one that constantly comes in and out of the media and causes incredible public shock and outrage every time. It is amazing how attitudes change, so that something invented in the 1920s to do nothing but good now leaves us struggling to believe it ever happened.

Book Review: Spare Brides by Adele Parks

Posted by admin on February 12, 2014 in 20th Century, Books

Adele Parks is a very successful novelist, whose books have so far been set in the modern day and have followed the lives of different women. She has made her first step into historical fiction with this new novel, Spare…

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