The Spanish Influenza Pandemic of 1918-1919 disappeared from everyone’s memory as soon as it was over. Nobody seemed willing to address it, not even historians. Yet, it had lasting effects on the population that lived through it and has become relevant today once more in our new pandemic times.
The Spanish Flu pandemic of one hundred years ago bears striking similarities with the Covid-19 pandemic of today, but it also holds many differences.
Many different practises marked the shift in women’s role in the 1920s, and dating, funnily enough, was one of the most visible, most powerful and most feared.
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.
All through the interwar years, the Zeppelins offered luxury transportation. The terrible disaster of the Hindenburg put an end to their popularity in 1937
In many respect, the 1920s was the decade of the woman. The perception of women and what they could and should do changed in the mind of both men and women.
Suffrage movements were old history in the 1920s, when the women of a few nations finally won their right to wote. But the fight had started in the 1800s
People had never had problems to cross borders. Before WWI, when a person wanted to go from one country to another, they simply did. There was no need for any documents. Only very few people actually used passports. But WWI closed all borders. When passports became of common use, the question fo the refugee arose.
The 1920s sound a lot like us, a time of wild change and insecurities and yet great hope for the future. I think they can teach us a lot about ourselves. Maybe they can teach us how to bring our Twenties someplace different.
In the 1920s, women found new freedom in their love life, but we often don’t appreciate men stopped to be the chooser and became the chosen as well
The Twenties are back! For a Twenties enthusiast like myself, this is the best of New Year promises. I love the Twenties, and this is why.
Women seem to have had a hard time being accepted in universities around the world. Here’s a collection of articles recounting how it went