When you picture the quintessential 1950s family, Leave It to Beaver and I Love Lucy come to mind. The reality of life in the 1950s was shockingly different. Sure, the porcelain veneer of the ...

American society in the 1950s was geared toward the family ... Although women had other aspirations in life, the dominant theme promoted in the culture and media at the time was that a husband ...

About 30 friends crowded around four tables this fall at Gus and George’s Spaghetti and Steak House in Virginia Beach chatting about when gas tanks could be ...

Health guru Liz Earle has revealed how the hormone replacement therapy she started in her early fifties improved her bone ...

Even when things began to improve as the 1950s progressed, life was still difficult for many working class people. This was something Shelagh Delaney was keen to portray in her play. She also ...

Here are 11 pictures depicting life in London in the 1950s. The 1950s was a decade of significant social and economic change ...

Fifties society did not offer the American Dream ... The message from advertisers was that every aspect of life could be improved with a purchase -- the drive to work, chores around the house ...

Even when things began to improve as the 1950s progressed, life was still difficult for many working class people. This was something Shelagh Delaney was keen to portray in her play. She also ...