1940s

Those who believe the world is flat may well struggle with the instruments of science presented on the following pages. The 5th BC discovery that Earth is round provided the […]

Skip to: Timeline / Fibre info / Burn test / Finishing treatments / Sources The biggest revolution to take place in fashion was not one of style, but of fibre. […]

Back in the summer of 2022 (#106) we shared the paintings of artist Hermoine Burton. A keen amateur artist, her life’s works ended up discarded in a Bedford charity shop […]

SylvaC was a pastel powerhouse. WIth the majority of their output taking place from the 1930s to 1970s, their wares have endured through changing fashions, and even now can sit […]

In 1938, Cab Calloway published a dictionary of words and phrases that one could hear in the music halls and on the streets of Harlem. The Hepster’s Dictionary was so […]

If it doesn’t look nice, cover it up. It’s a philosophy that could happily sit alongside those of great interiors thinkers William Morris (have nothing in your house you do […]

The younger sibling of the army and navy, the air force was still in its infancy when World War II began. Britain was the first country in the world to […]

WW2 saw the creation of a number of clubs that no airman would have chosen to join, but given a certain set of circumstances they’d be glad they did gain […]

The question is, does she wake back up again after you have gone to sleep? Perhaps it isn’t that ridiculous a question, apart from the fact we’ve always known stories […]

Here we present a selection of well-worn 1940s – 1950s British-made toy cars. Their individual patinas not only the result of many hours of exuberant play, but of the gradual […]