What did people do for entertainment from 1900 to 1920 in britain?

Question

What did people do for entertainment from 1900 to 1920 in britain?

Answer 1

They had dance and music halls, boxing,horse racing,card games, listening to music and singing, fox hunting,embroidery and sewing for ladies, men went to pubs. Art,writing,reading,children skipped ropes.

Answer 2

each others company, dances, reading, education ect. it depended on your age, class and s*x really, heres a good website:

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Answer 3

Opium and gramaphones.

Answer 4

Check the population growth statistics for that period.

Answer 5

Read, sing, dance, drink, fight, gamble, go to plays, eat limes to fight off the scurvy.

Answer 6

They read books, performed Shakespeare and practiced religion.

Answer 7

Same as they probably do now, drink and gamble...

Answer 8

s*x

Answer 9

flagpole sitting???

Answer 10

Popular forms of entertainment were music halls, pleasure gardens, movie houses and theatres showing silent films. The King popularised horse racing and sporting events, although these were mainly for the wealthy. Gin Palaces and Public Houses became socially popular.

At home family parlour games were popular - board games and so forth, and listening to the gramophone, although radio was still in its infancy.

There was more leisure time than we know today - shops closed on Sundays (and Wednesday afternoons) and most  entertainment established observed the Sabbath.

People had less expectations of course, and were thrilled by the spectacles of exhibitions, fun fairs and the like that visited the larger cities. Compare the great exhibitions of the Victorian and Edwardian ages  with the flop that was the Millennium dome.

Answer 11

They procreated