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New Year 1925: How Londoners Celebrated

New Year 1925: How Londoners Celebrated

History is made at the start of 1925.

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Dec 31, 2024
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Background image: Christine Matthews, creative commons licence.

“How did Londoners celebrate the New Year 100 years ago?” The question tickled my cortex yesterday evening, while I was formulating a topic for this last newsletter of 2024.

So I looked in the newspaper archives.

It turns out that 31 December 1924 was not only a riotous old duffel bag of fun…

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