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Phase
1920–1929 CE
The Roaring Twenties brought jazz, cinema, fashion, motorcars, nightlife and new consumer habits to parts of Europe and North America. The decade also contained prohibition, racial violence, labour conflict, debt, fragile democracies and the memory of war. Its glamour was real, but unevenly distributed.
The phase matters because it shows how postwar societies tried to modernise and forget while carrying unresolved grief. New freedoms in gender, sexuality and entertainment existed beside inequality and political radicalisation. The decade brought together crime, wealth, expatriate communities, social reinvention and moral instability alongside rapid cultural change.
Series
Set in the unsettled United States and Europe of the 1920s, the Seth Armitage novels follow a World War I veteran working with the young Bureau of Investigation as he confronts crimes in which the recent past remains dangerously active. Political corruption, unresolved wartime trauma and the legacy…
Books
Non-Fiction
Histories, biographies and reference works are listed separately from the historical novels above.
