Tag: victory-roll
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One Year One Night by SL Roman gets 13 k viewers in first reading on Tiktok.
American actor Alex Ryan Brown read excerpts from the historical romance written by Laura and Sarah under the pen-name SL Roman. Tiktok users heard Alex introduce the characters of Annie, unlucky boy Ben, jobsworth Mr Cribbles and Harriet Mandeville. The readings concentrated on the point in the story where the evacuees including Ben arrive at…
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1940 Londoners changed their look

World War 2 brought a change in the way Londoners presented themselves. Women wore a Victory Roll hairdo which mimicked the turn of the British bomber’s wings when they dropped their deadly load. And turbans became a thing for working on shift in the weapons factories so hair didn’t get caught up in the production…