How people lived: miscellanea, early-to-mid 20thC: Contents list
Scroll down for sections with clickable links to pages on what everyday life used to be like in the early-mid 20th century, told by people who were there at the time, with added research by the webmaster: women's issues, pre-digital, annual events, labour-saving devices, dying skills, death, random observations and more about the locations of contributors.
Women's Issues and Childcare
early-mid 20th Century

Pre-digital Timing
and Weighing

Pre-digital Calculating,
Filing and Weather
Forecasting

Annual Events and Celebrations
early 20th Century

Some Innovations
1950s-70s

Common then but not now
pre-1960s

Hair care pre-1960s

Skills

Special Events
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