IGCSE

If you click here you will get to a lovely article from Kassia St Clair about the ultimate symbol of the 1920s – the flapper in the 1843 magazine.

As St Clair states “Once the war was over, many women returned to their old lives, but the spirit of emancipation persisted…Meanwhile, the crumbling of the old social order and the growth in the retail sector meant that women that might once have gone into domestic service became shop girls, living in cities with a disposable income to spend on traveling, make-up, clothes, fashion magazines and cinema tickets.”

Mr Kydd

Following on from last week’s lesson on immigration policy in the 1920s, if you click here you will get to an article in The Guardian by Sarah Gilbert. In it, she tells the story of Augustus Francis Sherman.

Many of the 12 million people who entered the US through New York’s Ellis Island wore traditional dress from their homelands. The early 1900s images by chief registry clerk Sherman have been brought to life in a book called The Paper Time Machine, by Wolfgang Wilding and Jordan Lloyd.

Above – a Ruthenian woman circa 1906 from the region historically inhabiting the kingdom of the Rus, incorporating parts of modern-day Slavic speaking countries.

Mr Kydd.