Three years ago members of Devon History Society and other interested researchers joined together in a research collaboration to explore what really happened in Devon’s forgotten decade, the 1920s. What happened to the ex-servicemen? How did employment change? Was this truly the heyday of local government and the death of the squirearchy? What did the raising of the school-leaving age achieve? What happened as numbers of motor vehicles on the roads increased?
Newton Abbot Market
In this talk Dr Julia Neville, who’s been leading the project, explores the preliminary findings from the initial research, suggests some of the ways in which Devon differed from other places and considers the unanswered questions.
Zoom event.
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