Are the 2010s really like the 1930s? The truth about life in the
![](https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/d8f352e74d65863090d5c83c7bbfa6795829de50/0_61_5061_3039/master/5061.jpg?width=1200&height=900&quality=85&auto=format&fit=crop&s=f7ec8b31145806f6581155c6648d5c87)
Record unemployment, costly healthcare, a massive north-south divide, rat-infested slums – and movie palaces, dance halls and lidos. Juliet Gardiner kicks off our special focus on the 1930s with a look at daily life in Britain
![](https://www.politico.com/dims4/default/21603e4/2147483647/strip/true/crop/1280x720+0+0/resize/1160x653!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcf-images.us-east-1.prod.boltdns.net%2Fv1%2Fstatic%2F1155968404%2F8afc6633-2eea-4949-8e70-f76865d854b9%2Fb3d6abed-bc8c-4e30-b7db-3aeb646ad9c4%2F1280x720%2Fmatch%2Fimage.jpg)
How Will History Books Remember the 2010s? - POLITICO
![](https://www.historic-uk.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/the-1920s-roaring-twenties.jpg)
The 1920s, the Roaring Twenties, in Britain
![](https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/ae2e61b403bfb482ca47029f92f2105bf2b8bdf9/0_405_3900_2341/master/3900.jpg?width=445&dpr=1&s=none)
Death of truth: when propaganda and 'alternative facts' first gripped the world, Media
![](https://cdn.theatlantic.com/thumbor/YUdFtVq3UIvwz83PsyWmpiG60FA=/0x0:4800x2700/960x540/media/img/mt/2023/10/nyc_housing_crisis/original.jpg)
What Really Took Down Airbnb - The Atlantic
![](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71cJY6Xve2L._AC_UF1000,1000_QL80_.jpg)
Under the L: A Chronicle of Growing up in the Near North Side of Chicago in the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s: Martinez, Charles J: 9781949661408: : Books
![](https://www.politico.com/dims4/default/e230a62/2147483647/strip/true/crop/2000x1333+0+0/resize/1218x812!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fstatic.politico.com%2F2a%2Fe9%2F102acb554476996c8a3b2cb0d78c%2Fnewyork-gettyimages-1129234894.jpg)
How Will History Books Remember the 2010s? - POLITICO
![](https://cdn.thecollector.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/02Organised-Crime.jpg)
Bootleggers, Bathtub Gin, & Speakeasies: Organized Crime in the 1920s
![](https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/164f250779ed585c3f35e25331c2bb1835396d2f/0_147_2058_1235/master/2058.jpg?width=1200&height=630&quality=85&auto=format&fit=crop&overlay-align=bottom%2Cleft&overlay-width=100p&overlay-base64=L2ltZy9zdGF0aWMvb3ZlcmxheXMvdGctYWdlLTIwMTcucG5n&s=945942da798dade3d2e8e50aa9be94f7)
What was the 1930s really like? We want to hear your family's stories, Life and style
![](https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/d8f352e74d65863090d5c83c7bbfa6795829de50/0_61_5061_3039/master/5061.jpg?width=1200&height=900&quality=85&auto=format&fit=crop&s=f7ec8b31145806f6581155c6648d5c87)
Are the 2010s really like the 1930s? The truth about life in the Great Depression, Society
![](https://d28hgpri8am2if.cloudfront.net/book_images/onix/cvr9781982166694/the-good-life-9781982166694_hr.jpg)
d28hgpri8am2if.cloudfront.net/book_images/onix/cvr
![](https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/23f1f4daffbbbb1f60f493268289b1dbccf56332/243_101_2985_2734/master/2985.jpg?width=620&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=814447b851b91818916b7428cdc36551)
Death of truth: when propaganda and 'alternative facts' first gripped the world, Media
![](https://culturalsnafu.files.wordpress.com/2019/07/071910kelloggs.jpg?w=640&h=524)
Life got so bad during the Great Depression people were actually fooled into thinking Corn Flakes had flavour