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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.
The novelist Eudora Welty also photographed families affected by the Great Depression, especially in rural Mississippi, producing a remarkable body of work. [71] In the early 1930s, Marvin Breckinridge Patterson (1905–2002) published her world travel photographs in Vogue, National Geographic, Look, Life, Town & Country, and Harper's Bazaar. [72]
Margaret Bondfield becomes the first female member of the Cabinet when she is named Minister of Labour. 17 June – Alfred Hitchcock's Blackmail shown for the first time in London, the first British sound film. [2] 1 July – C. P. Scott retires after 57 and a half years as editor of The Manchester Guardian and is succeeded by his son, Ted Scott.
This is a partial list of 20th-century women artists, sorted alphabetically by decade of birth.These artists are known for creating artworks that are primarily visual in nature, in traditional media such as painting, sculpture, photography, printmaking, ceramics as well as in more recently developed genres, such as installation art, performance art, conceptual art, digital art and video art.
Florence Owens Thompson (born Florence Leona Christie; September 1, 1903 – September 16, 1983) was an American woman who was the subject of Dorothea Lange's photograph Migrant Mother (1936), considered an iconic image of the Great Depression. The Library of Congress titled the image: "Destitute pea pickers in California. Mother of seven children.
According to the Social Security Administration, the most popular baby names of the 1920s were “taken from a universe that includes 11,372,808 male births and 12,402,235 female births.”
1930s in British cinema (1 C, 13 P) 1930s in the United Kingdom by city (10 C) ... Great Depression in the United Kingdom (8 P) I. Interwar Britain (2 C, 18 P) L.
And while there are plenty of modern-day ways to prepare for any lean times that might come, a surprising number of lessons from the hardships of the 1930s endure. Here are a dozen to guide us ...