1922: The Birth of the Modern World (TRIH eps 136-137)
1922 · Resource
Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook continue their multi-part tour of 1922, surveying political, cultural and geopolitical shifts that helped shape the modern world. They open with Winston Churchill’s Dundee speech and move through the cultural explosion of the 1920s — Hollywood, Chaplin, Hitchcock, Disney — and the mass-media phenomenon sparked by Howard Carter’s discovery of Tutankhamen’s tomb. The episode tracks technological and institutional milestones such as the first regular broadcasts...
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Around 1922
- Russian Revolution (1917)
- World War I (1914)
- Founding of the Soviet Union (1922)
- Pop music: the 1930s (1930)
- Pop music: the 1920s (1920)
- Great Depression (1929)
- Easter Rising / Irish War of Independence (1916)
- Discovery of penicillin (1928)
- Treaty of Versailles (1919)
- Wall Street Crash (1929)