Hollywood Stars, Fred Astaire and Ginger Rodgers - 1930s Fred Astaire and his sister Adele, were born in Omaha, Nebraska. Their mother recognised her children’s talents...

LMS Best Way Railway Poster 1928 By the 1920s, travel was popular.  The upper classes travelled abroad to exotic destinations, whereas the middle classes were...

Coco Chanel in a Jersey suit, Biarritz, France 1928 The 1920’s fashionable silhouette lacked structure and was radically different to the Edwardian corseted fashions.  This trend was...

As our thoughts turn to lazy days spent beside the pool, spare a thought for Annette Kellerman; the sportswoman who designed and pioneered the one-piece...

Sunray Vase 1929-1930 by Clarice Cliff, on exhibition in the V&A London   Clarice Cliff was born on January 20th 1899, in Tunstall, Stoke-on-Trent. She began...

    At the end of the summer in 1929, economist Irving Fisher famously announced that “Stock markets have reached what looks like a permanently high...

The Bass Museum, Miami, Florida, built 1930 On 18th September 1926, a Category 4 hurricane made landfall in Florida. The eye of the storm passed...

Art Deco Saltdean Lido near Brighton, built 1938, reopened to the public May 2017.The Lido, or open-air swimming pool, became popular during the 1920s and 1930s when swimming...

John Rhodes Cobb the 'fastest man on earth' Born in 1899, John Rhodes Cobb was a British racing driver who made his name 1920s and...