Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
#13 Young Girl During The Great Depression, 1930s. Image credits: Old-time Photos #14 Men In Harlem Gather In Front Of A Shop To Listen To The Radio, 1940. Image credits: Old-time Photos
The Great Depression of 1929–32 broke out at a time when the United Kingdom was still far from having recovered from the effects of the First World War. Economist Lee Ohanian showed that economic output fell by 25% between 1918 and 1921 and did not recover until the end of the Great Depression, [3] arguing that the United Kingdom suffered a twenty-year great depression beginning in 1918.
1930s in British cinema (1 C, ... Great Depression in the United Kingdom; I. ... Men's Dress Reform Party; N. National Government (1931)
Hunger marches to London had previously taken place in 1922–23, 1929 [2] and 1930, [3] and 1927 had seen a South Wales miners' march. [4] Due to the Great Depression and mass unemployment, throughout 1932 there was a profound atmosphere of unrest across Britain with "high tension across the country", "running battles between police and demonstrators" and "violent clashes ... between the ...
Image credits: Historical Images Another interesting aspect of our history is that it only started to be precise and make chronological sense after the first ancient Olympic games in 776 BCE and ...
The term "The Great Depression" is most frequently attributed to British economist Lionel Robbins, whose 1934 book The Great Depression is credited with formalizing the phrase, [230] though Hoover is widely credited with popularizing the term, [230] [231] informally referring to the downturn as a depression, with such uses as "Economic ...
Great Depression: 1929–1941 ... released by Biltmore Pictures in April 1930. ... Contemporary British History (Sep 2016) 30#3 pp 432–433.
The lessons of the generation that weathered the Great Depression include self-sufficiency, frugality, and improvisation. ... a surprising number of lessons from the hardships of the 1930s endure ...