Luchita Hurtado in 2017 in front of a Self-Portrait painted 1950s Luchita Hurtado (1920-2020) was a Venezuelan-born artist whose drawings, paintings, photographs, jewellery and clothing...

Helen Wills in action, wearing her signature outfit  As we near the start of Wimbledon, we take a look back at some of the tennis...

Sunrise, by Erté, 1984 The evocative work of Romain de Tirtoff, otherwise known as Erté, is quintessentially Art Deco.  Erté was an artist, designer and sculptor born in St....

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...

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

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...

Leslie Hutchinson, affectionately known as 'Hutch' was a pianist and singer, born in Grenada in 1900. Hutch made his West End debut in 1927 playing in the...

Tamara de Lempicka One of the most recognisable artists of the "Arts Decoratifs" (Art Deco) era, was Tamara de Lempicka. She was born in Poland, but fled...

Diana Cooper, was a glamorous socialite, born on 29th August 1892 into an aristocratic family, who enjoyed the privileged upbringing of the British upper classes.  During the...