Lifestyle between the wars

• Fashions at Suppertime 1926
• Refrigerator advertisement, Punch, May 26 1930
• Capitol Cinema, London, 1937
• Advertisement from County Express, March 1837
• McMichael radio, 1930s, held at Black Country Living Museum
• G.E.C. bakelite radio, 1936, held at Black Country Living Museum
• Workers at the Revo factory wearing the fashions of the day, 1920s

 

In the time between the wars people moved from almost hysterical gaiety to anxiety and despair, from the bright hopes of a better world to the miseries of the Depression. But for most people the standard of living was steadily improving.

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