20th Century

A collection of 78 Posts

Welcome to the Migrants' Supper Club post image

Welcome to the Migrants' Supper Club

A visit to her ancestral home in Samarkand inspired Or Rosenboim to establish a dining club on her return to London

Is the British Museum Haunted? with Noah Angell post image

Is the British Museum Haunted? with Noah Angell

Writer Noah Angell on the ghosts of the British Museum

Anna May Wong's Performance of a Lifetime post image

Anna May Wong's Performance of a Lifetime

Katie Gee Salisbury takes us to London in 1928, as Anna May Wong prepared to give the performance of her life

Herbert Ponting's Photographs of Antarctica in Colour post image

Herbert Ponting's Photographs of Antarctica in Colour

Colourised and remastered images from Robert Falcon Scott's Terra Nova Expedition

1950: Wind Tunnel at Langley Aeronautical Laboratory post image

1950: Wind Tunnel at Langley Aeronautical Laboratory

"Aerodynamic research into hypersonic speeds—perhaps in the region of 15,000 miles an hour—will ultimately be carried out"

1945: Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima post image

1945: Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima

On 23 February 1945 one of the iconic photographs of the Second World War was taken on the Pacific island of Iwo Jima. Here it is in colour.

1949: The Chicago Theatre post image

1949: The Chicago Theatre

The bright lights of the 'wonder theatre of the world' caught the attention of a young Stanley Kubrick

1924: The Death of Lenin post image

1924: The Death of Lenin

On 21 January 1924, the Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin died. Here's how the news was reported in Britain.

1900: Mulberry Street, New York post image

1900: Mulberry Street, New York

A glimpse into Manhattan's teeming streets at the turn of the twentieth century

1918: Inside Amiens Cathedral post image

1918: Inside Amiens Cathedral

A journalist describes a poignant service in a barricaded and subdued church

A Blacksmith in Illinois post image

A Blacksmith in Illinois

Bert Wikle was a member of the German-American Community in the early twentieth century

Trapped in History with Nicholas Rankin post image

Trapped in History with Nicholas Rankin

Nicholas Rankin reflects on a childhood in Kenya