1920s pictures and videos and many new releases of novels set in the interwar years.
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Happy Halloween! Let’s Honour the Darkest Time With the Light of Creativity. We’re in for one of the darkest Winter in our remembered history. But we don’t need to face it alone.
Inspector Gereon Rath investigates a crime rooted in the last stages of WWI while the Nazis take over Germany
The first instalment in the Lord Peter Wimsey mystery series by Dorothy L. Sayers is quirky,, witty and moving in places. Like its protagonist.
Halloween wasn’t the great celebration it has becomeuntil the beginning of the 1900s. In the 1920s, with the booming consumerism, to which it appears to be closely bound, Halloween became ‘a thing’, especially in the United States.
NOBODY’S SWEETHEART NOW (Maggie Robinson) Addie is a young widow belonging to the British upper crust. Dev is an Anglo-Indian Scotland Yard Inspector. An unlikely couple, maybe, but a winning one.
“I am only responsible for my own heart, you offered yours up for the smashing my darling. Only a fool would give out such a vital organ” – Anaïs Nin
A couple of links with reimagined interwar years (and the 1920s) and a few truly awesome videos: The Black Forest, Tales from the Loop and a flying train
Bingo Little is in trouble, Bertie Wooster goes to the rescue, Jeeves solves the problem. Simple as that.
It has become universally known as the Spanish Flu, but it didn’t originate in Spain. The place of origin of the most deadly pandemic in history is still a mystery.
The fourth WWI Mystery in the Bess Crawford series by Charles Todd is a solid historical nocel with a great war setting
GANG ROUNDUP (August 2020) The 1920s were a time of change and innovation in so many areas of life: women’s life, inventions, society.