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1920s Scrapbook (Hardcover)
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1920s Scrapbook (Hardcover)
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List price R521
Loot Price R424
Discovery Miles 4 240
You Save R97 (19%)
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With over 1,000 colourful images, Robert Opie brings to life the
1920s and captures the mood of this radical decade in Great
Britain. The Twenties were a time for change and invention. The
arrival of the wireless provided a new form of entertainment and
"The Radio Times" was launched in 1923. The popularity of the
cinema continued and was changed forever with the coming of
'talkies' and "The Jazz Singer" in 1926. While there were many
notable events, from the Tutankhaman discoveries to the Empire
exhibition at Wembley, unemployment and workers' discontent
pervaded everyday life, culminating in the General Strike of 1926.
For children, however, fun and amusement could be found with new
cartoon characters: the antics of Felix the Cat at the pictures,
tales of Pooh Bear in A.A. Milne's book "Winnie-the-Pooh" and, in
newspapers, Bonzo the Dog ("Daily Sketch"), Rupert the Bear ("Daily
Express"), Teddy Tail ("Daily Mail") and Pip, Squeak and Wilfred
("Daily Mirror"). Apart from women daring to smoke (especially
Turkish cigarettes), the young flappers found freedom in the rising
hemlines that revealed their legs and enabled the new energetic
dances such as the Charleston and Black Bottom. It was an
experimental age for hairstyles, perming, crimping, bobbing. No
wonder that this decade became known as the 'Roaring Twenties'.
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