Time Line1919-1924

Recovering from the War, Winsham faced problems of poor housing, shortage of water (which was also contaminated) and raising the money for a war memorial.

1919 German monarchy ends and republic proclaimed- Centralist parties formed the Weimar Republic

 1920 Women at Oxford University allowed to receive degrees

1921 Unemployment reaches a post war high of 2.5 million

1921 Partition of Ireland

1922 Irish Civil War breaks out

1922 T.S.Eliot-"The Waste Land"

1923 Stanley Baldwin becomes Prime Minister

1924 Ramsey Macdonald becomes first Labour Prime Minister

1924 Hitler writes Volume I of Mein Kampf

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