In a couple of days time my mother should have been celebrating her 100th birthday, but sadly she died earlier this year. So for this month’s Ten Things I thought we should do something to reflect on the momentous events my mother saw in her lifetime.
Ten Historical Events from My Mother’s Lifetime before She was 21 (in October 1936)

1. Russian Revolution (1917)
2. End of the Great War (1918)
3. Spanish Flu Epidemic (1918-19)
4. Creation of Irish Free State (1922)
5. General Strike (1926)
6. Universal suffrage for everyone over 21 in UK (1928)
7. First talking films (1928)
8. Wall Street Crash (1929)
9. Hitler comes to power in Germany (1933)
10. Accession of Edward VIII (1936) (but not the Abdication as that didn’t happen until December 1936)

And that is just the tip of the iceberg!