Life 100 years ago
What if Twitter had been invented 100 years ago?
History from the perspective of New Zealanders who experienced it. Daily quotes from diaries, letters, newspapers... shared in 'real-time' exactly 100 years later.
PapersPast
21 February 1919
COMING BLOOD BATH AT KIEFF - Bolshevist preparations - Colonist, 21 February 1919 https://t.co/8tJalOIVkI #WW100 via @PapersPastNZ
PapersPast
20 February 1919
SHOTS FIRED AT FRENCH PREMIER - Aged statesman wounded on shoulder - Poverty Bay Herald, 20 February 1919 https://t.co/Zm2r0mhHKm #WW100 via @PapersPastNZ
PapersPast
19 February 1919
A GREAT HISTORICAL EVENT - In progress of the human race - Nelson Evening Mail, 19 February 1919 https://t.co/Annr0XPKjY #WW100 via @PapersPastNZ
Auckland Weekly News
19 February 1919
A bull in difficulties during the recent floods in South Otago. #WW100 https://t.co/6l2pKB1c7E https://t.co/XSLk2QUio3 via @AkWeeklyNews
PapersPast
18 February 1919
ACTION IN RUSSIA - Hot Senate debate on American intervention - Marlborough Express, 18 February 1919 https://t.co/EhuekxYRdu #WW100 via @PapersPastNZ
Auckland Weekly News
18 February 1919
The main street at Balclutha submerged by water during the recent floods in South Otago. #WW100… https://t.co/qCi9T9XyRv via @AkWeeklyNews
PapersPast
17 February 1919
"JUGOSLAVIA." - As large as Italy - Ashburton Guardian, 17 February 1919 https://t.co/oKWAbNd9t9 #WW100 via @PapersPastNZ
Auckland Weekly News
17 February 1919
Ousting the German-made article: dolls made in the United States of America. #WW100 https://t.co/JsTdsVuyEu https://t.co/2Pr9zqmt1O via @AkWeeklyNews
Corp. William McCaw
17 February 1919
Warm & calm. My staff are doing so well that I hardly went near them except to give the sergeant coupons to sell.#WW100 via @McCaw_diary
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