1920s

Articles about the history of the 1920s – on culture, entertainment, gangsters, prohibition and more

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Helen Chandler, Mayo Methot and George Meeker, 1932.

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Tutankhamun’s golden funeral mask

Your guide to Tutankhamun, plus 8 fascinating facts

Four flapper women line up along a wall and chug bottles of liquor in the 1920s.

Flappers, sanitary pads and public drinking: was the 1920s a time of increased liberation for women?

Virginia Woolf, writer and critic. (Image by Getty Images)

Virginia Woolf: a brief guide to the writer’s life

British mystery writer Agatha Christie, c1926.

The mysterious disappearance of Agatha Christie

The bikini was showcased to the world for the first time in July 1946. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

8 historical events that happened in July

Princess Elizabeth 1939

The young Elizabeth II: life before she was Queen

The reconcilliation between Thomas Becket and Henry II. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

From the handshake to the high-five: a brief history of gestures

Four women dressed in the perceived fashion of the roaring twenties in a 1954 musical called ‘The Boy Friend’. (Photo by Getty Images)

How the ‘Roaring Twenties’ myth obscures the making of modern Britain

Prohibition protesters parade in a car emblazoned with signs and flags calling for the repeal of the 18th Amendment, which outlawed the production and consumption of alcohol in the United States. (Archive Photos/Getty Images)

“A great social experiment”: a brief guide to prohibition

Members of Preston Ladies' Football Club (formerly Dick, Kerr’s Ladies) pose while carrying out leg exercises during practice, March 1937. (Photo by Fox Photos/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

1921: the year when football banned women

Chastity belt decorated with a flower design and a heart pierced with arrows. (SSPL/Getty Images)

13 weird historical facts

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1922 in pictures: nationalists, navies, mountains and modernism

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Q&A: When were the first film trailers shown?

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Historical fiction and a US murder scandal . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.