Here is a film about the 1920s in Norfolk as depicted by the 1921 census. The country was recovering from the First World War and the Spanish Flu pandemic and the census was compiled during a period of social unrest leading up to the General Strike of 1926. It’s an excellent insight into the period and in particular, women’s emancipation. Why were there so many British Army deployments overseas? And what neighbouring country were a number of these based? What type of jobs were women doing for the first time? What did Dorothy Jewson become for the first time? And what did Ethel Colman become? There were many significant medical advancements during this period but what were they? To find out the answers to these questions and more information please select the following link and press play, you may also wish to give the film a thumbs up:
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