Agatha Christie (TRIH ep 185)
1926 · Resource
Hosts Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook examine Agatha Christie’s life, work and enduring popularity, treating her as a mirror on twentieth‑century Britain. They consider two formative shocks in her life—early financial insecurity after her father’s death and the collapse of her first marriage, culminating in her famous 1926 disappearance—and discuss how World War I nursing taught her about poisons.
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Around 1926
- Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany (1933)
- Presidency of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (1923)
- The Holocaust (1933)
- Spanish Civil War (1936)
- Russian Revolution (1917)
- Great Depression (1929)
- Spanish flu pandemic (1918)
- Founding of the Soviet Union (1922)
- Hitler's rule of Germany (1933)
- Pop music: the 1920s (1920)