mid-1920s

On his return to China in the mid-1920s, Deng got involved in revolutionary politics and the burgeoning Chinese civil war.

Zero-Sum Future Gideon Rachman 2011

On his return to China in the mid-1920s, Deng got involved in revolutionary politics and the burgeoning Chinese civil war.

Zero-Sum Future Gideon Rachman 2011

Roosevelt FDR from the mid-1920s, Working with Roosevelt is the most intimate and granular retelling of FDR's skills, methods and inside life I have ever read.

Frank A. Weil: Working With Roosevelt Frank A. Weil 2012

Best known today for having made Marlene Dietrich a star—he directed her in seven pictures between 1930 and 1935—Sternberg first made a name for himself in the mid-1920s, just as silent movies reached their zenith.

Master of the Mise-en-Scène David Mermelstein 2011

Jean, a schoolteacher, raced around the hills and moors of Sutherland on her motorbike in the mid-1920s.

Family life 2011

Roosevelt FDR from the mid-1920s, Working with Roosevelt is the most intimate and granular retelling of FDR's skills, methods and inside life I have ever read.

Frank A. Weil: Working With Roosevelt Frank A. Weil 2012

A move from Walton to Wirral in the mid-1920s was, she says, "his only concession to affluence".

My grandad's store and the end of the high street 2011

Surrealism, an artistic response to the power of dreams and the subconscious, was only a brief obsession for Miró but its ideas informed his painting of the mid-1920s, and his methods thereafter.

Joan Miró: A life in paintings 2011

A move from Walton to Wirral in the mid-1920s was, she says, "his only concession to affluence".

My grandad's store and the end of the high street 2011

They lived together in London before Brittain's marriage in the mid-1920s—and after.

Writer With a Cause Martin Rubin 2011