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...

“The brains of people are more interesting than the looks I think,”Hollywood actress and inventor Hedy Lamarr  Born Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler in Vienna in...

Ada Coleman - Head Barwoman at The Savoy Hotel American Bar, 1920s  The prohibition of alcohol in the United States during the 1920s, led to the...

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...

The Donnell Garden, completed 1948 - Sonoma Hills, California USA with kidney-shaped swimming pool   Take a look at most modern gardens and you will see...

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...

Sophia Duleep Singh - Indian princess, goddaughter to Queen Victoria and a pivotal figure in the suffrage movement, remembered on the new Royal Mail stamps  ...

Louise Brooks with Dismal Desmond ~1927 So, what were the 'must-have' Christmas toys of the 1920s? Dismal Desmond, designed by Richard Elliott and created by the...