Who Do You Think You Are?

MIXED FORTUNES

‘My grandfather went on the run from Canada to the USA and then to Australia’

What images does the phrase ‘the 1920s’ conjure up? Flappers and open-topped touring cars, perhaps? Or lounge lizards wearing two-tone shoes and with gleaming slicked-back hair, young people dancing the night away, early Agatha Christie novels and copious cocktail drinking? Was it really like that, I wonder? Perhaps for the golden privileged few,

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