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1920s

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

Four flapper women line up along a wall and chug bottles of liquor in the 1920s.
20th Century

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)
General Modern

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

British mystery writer Agatha Christie, c1926. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
20th Century

The mysterious disappearance of Agatha Christie

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Ancient Egypt

8 things you (probably) didn’t know about Tutankhamun

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

8 historical events that happened in July

Princess Elizabeth 1939
20th Century

The young Elizabeth II: life before she was Queen

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

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)
20th Century

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)
20th Century

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

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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)
First World War

1921: the year when football banned women

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

13 weird historical facts

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20th Century

1922 in pictures: nationalists, navies, mountains and modernism

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20th Century

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

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Tudor

Historical fiction and a US murder scandal

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Victorian

Percy Fawcett and the lost city of Z: The history behind the film

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