🎧 Will This Be the New Roaring 20s?
Archive of Dan Snow's History Hit 🎧 • 21m
Our impressions of the Roaring 20s are a time of economic growth, social change and in some cases wild debauchery, but were the Roaring 20s really a thing and what were they like? As lockdown restrictions ease are we due another similar period a hundred years later? Professor Sarah Churchwell joins Dan on the podcast with the exciting possibility that we might all be in store for another period of wild socialising, but only when it's safe to do so!
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🎧 Hitler's Atlantic Wall
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🎧 The Xiongnu: History's First Nomadi...
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