In 1999, Henry Allen at the Washington Post wrote a series of articles where he tried to capture what it was like to live in each decade of the 20th century.

Here they are: 1900′s, 1910′s, 1920′s, 1930′s, 1940′s, 1950′s, 1960′s, 1970′s, 1980′s, 1990′s.

It’s similar to the approach Andrew Marr recently used for his Modern Britain documentaries.

This is what I find so fascinating about the 20th century: The speed at which perceptions of the world were changing – and still are.