Kate Juffs
ASIN: B00R86QX78
Publisher: unknown
Pages: 193
From the death of Queen Victoria in 1901 until just before the outbreak of World War Two this book looks at what life in England and Wales was like after the turn of the twentieth century. It concentrates on the majority; those in the working class and lower middle class, men women and children. Their lives were just as eventful and interesting as our own and it was certainly not ‘all work and no play’.This book includes a timeline of some of the events that happened, such as the introduction of the radio, motor car and television. It also contains a list of books, songs, films and magazines that our forebears are likely to have enjoyed. With chapters on the home, out and about, children and toys, people’s health and the money, weights and measures they would have used, there is plenty of information in this introduction to the social history of the time.For family historians and ...