January 17, 2020

The day America went dry A century ago today the US banned the sale of alcohol, destroying its native breweries and empowering the Mafia

Henry Jeffreys

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The ‘Great Awokening’ started a century ago The 2020s are merely re-enacting the culture wars of the 1920s

Eric Kaufmann

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When female undergrads were ‘semi-demented spinsters’ A century ago the first women graduated from Oxford — and another obstacle to female emancipation fell

Francesca Wade

09.01

Like the 1920s, the 2020s will be an age of anxiety Below the surface, the first 'modern decade' was an era of increasing worry about the future

Richard Overy

08.01

Russia’s brief encounter with the sexual revolution Long before the swinging Sixties, the USSR initiated free love, gay rights and legal abortion. The results were unexpected...

Daniel Kalder

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The war that saved Europe from Communism A century ago only the Polish army stood between Bolsheviks and a severely weakened Europe

Roger Moorhouse

06.01

How Britain created the Middle East crisis The carve-up of the region after the First World War led to the fanaticism and conflict of today

James Barr