Past Times Project

Past Times Project

1900's - The Edwardian Period

Grooming and Corsets Children's Books Detergents and Cleaning Compounds Flying Daytrips to the Seaside Suffragettes

1910's - Women and War

Coronation Cinema Fresh Style for Young Women World War I Airship Air Raids Victory Celebrations

1920's - The Roaring Twenties

Flappers Crystal Sets Nightclubs Trams Airships LuxuryCars Ocean Liners 'The Green Hat'

1930's - The Tantalising Thirties

Talkies Palais-de-danse Tommy Farr Flying Boats The Lambeth Walk Stop Me and Buy One Comics Woolworths -- the 3d & 6d Store Nippies and ABCs The First Penguins

1940's - The Austere Forties

Woolton Pie The Wartime Songs 'ITMA' Gas Masks Dig for Victory Demob Suits and Nylons Utility Furniture and Clothing The Yanks Pathé News

1950's - The Rocking Fifties

Holiday Camps The Rank Charm School 'Sunday Night at the London Palladium' Teddy Boys and Rock-and-Roll The Brylcreem Boy The Angry Young Men Ealing Comedies Furniture of the 50s Tony Curtises, Crewcuts and DAs The Dockers

1960's - The Swinging Sixties

Mary Quant and Carnaby Street The Beatles and the Mersey Sound The Mini Dr.Beeching and the Last Steam Train The Old Coins Hippies Mods and Rockers 'Juke Box Jury' and 'Ready Steady Go' Satire and TW3 Carry on Movies

1970's - The Sizzling Seventies

Glam Rock Punk Royal Wedding Silver Jubilee Strikes Comedy Heatwave

1980's - The Thatcher Years

The New Romantics Power Dressing Live Aid Margaret Thatcher The Great Storm Comedy Lady Diana

1990's - The Technological Nineties

Royal Weddings 50th Anniversary WWII British Films Supermodels Computers, Lottery, Stars Diana Killed

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