Topic: The Trailblazing Twentieth Century
About this Topic
In our new Creativity Ray, we are going to be finding out about creative people of the 20th century from all walks of life who used their gifts to make life better and more interesting for people at the time and also for people today.
The 1900s and 1910s
In this Ray, we shall be finding out about creative individuals in all walks of life who used the power of their imaginations to enrich the lives of their contemporaries as well as those who have gone…
The 1920s and 1930s
We continue our journey through the 20th century with the ‘Roaring 20s’ and the ‘Great Depression’ that followed. Lookout for surrealist artists like Salvador Dali with his melting clocks and …
The 1940s and 1950s
As with the 1920s and 1930s the adjacent decades of the 1940s and 1950s are quite different to each other in many ways. The 1940s, particularly the early years of the 1940s, are dominated by World War…
The 1960s and 1970s
And so, we reach the 1960s and 1970s in our whistlestop tour of the 20th century. As these are the decades of my childhood, I can remember some of the events and trends of the time but some things I h…
The 1980s and 1990s
To me, these years remind me of when I started teaching, when I got married and set up my first home and when I had our four children. To many of you, these will the years that your parents grew up in…