For a very long time, and through the entire New Woman’s historical arc, trousers remained controversial clothing for women #WomenFashion
The New Woman was a new incarnation of femininity that revolutionalised women’s role in all Western societies from the 1890s through the 1920s.
The Spanish Influenza Pandemic of 1918-1919 disappeared from everyone’s memory as soon as it was over. Nobody seemed willing to address it, not even historians. Yet, it had lasting effects on the population that lived through it and has become relevant today once more in our new pandemic times.
It was supposed to be over by Christmas, but when Christmas actually came in that first year of war in 1914, the end was not in sight by a long shot.
Yet, the troops on all fronts were more than ready to see the end, and on that Christmas Day, they tried to overcome the…
We call it the Great War, but it isn’t about war. It’s about being human.
Therefore, it doesn’t matter that it happened more than a century ago.
The bond between the Great War and the corn poppies was born from a poem, In Flanders Fields, one of the most recognised poems of WWI.
The Great War was very familiar with the supernatural. The Angels of Mons was only one episode. Why were people so willing to believe in interventions from the otherworld?
The appearance of the Angels of Mons to protect the British troops in early WWI was widely believed by the population. What facts do we know about it?
TWO STORM WOOD by Philip Gray – The war damaged them all. Now, in the abandoned battlefields of WWI, some of them are searching for people for their mind and their soul.
Gang Roundup (July 2021) A collection of articles about WWI and a look at some of the new dieselpunk novels.
A collection of book recommendations of novels and series set in the 1920s… and there about. Mostly cosy mysteries.
Gang Roundup (June 2021) Resources for history lovers interested in the Spanish Influenza pandemic. Videos covering 1920s subjects. New releases of novels set in the 1920s.