From telephone-equipped hotel rooms to cars ‘for lady drivers’, the advertisements featured in Country Life in 1923 captured Britain’s evolution as well as the odd quack remedy. Melanie Bryan takes a look.
A journey back in time to Britain in 1923 shows a country beginning to change rapidly after the horrors of the ‘war to end all wars’. The BBC, formed at the end of 1922, dominated the headlines, becoming the first to broadcast live from cities and towns as…