The Roaring Twenties: Art, Design and High Society

Like its name, the Roaring Twenties was a loud and boisterous decade, marked by novelty, modernity and huge social, technological, and economic change. It spawned a generation of wealthy and privileged Bright Young Things who were determined to shock and who broke with the conventions of the past to pursue a life of hedonism. Women wore fur coats and cloche hats, donned new boyish fashions and had short, cropped hair. Men drove fast cars, mixed cocktails and smoked American cigarettes.

Lecturer: Joanna Banham. Joanna is a freelance curator, lecturer and writer. She has published on many aspects of Victorian and early 20th century decoration and interiors. She recently curated an exhibition on William Morris and the Arts and Crafts Movement for museums in Madrid and Barcelona and she is currently writing a book on the History of Wallpaper. She is also Director of the Victorian Society Summer School.