Tag: 1920s
Icons May 2020
Altitude Sickness: The Happy Valley Set
Originally featured in Issue 40 of The Rake, Nick Scott delves into the controversial lives (and deaths) of the Happy Valley set — a group of white, western expatriates who, between the 1920s and forties, turned a slice of Kenyan highlands into a hotbed of colonial debauchery.
Icons October 2016
The Bootleg Brethren: Prohibition's Heroes
How the lesser-known ne’er-do-wells of The Prohibition wove, with their antics, some of the richest folklore in American history.
