"The Past is a foreign country: they do things differently there", says the famous quote from L P Hartley, while E P Thompson, an eminent historian, warned against "the enormous condescension of posterity" due to which we are tempted to think that people in past eras were less intelligent or resourceful, and that they lived their lives in Black and White. They were not and they did not
It is as well to keep this permanently in mind. This footage (you will have to imagine the colours), from the interwar years in Britain, gives some glimpses of that world.
(Remember of course that the British who lived "between the wars" did not know they were living between the wars.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xykbG0wlX28&feature=youtu.be
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