Vol. 1920s · No. 1922 · PRICE 25¢
The 1922 Times
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November 1922 | Archaeology, Egypt
Tombs, Modernism, and the Rise of Empires
The world in 1922 hummed with jazz, literary revolution, and groundbreaking archaeological wonder amidst shifting global political tides. As ancient mysteries unsealed and modern empires emerged, art and culture redefined what it meant to enter a brave new century.
Publication of James Joyce’s Ulysses
Published in Paris on Joyce’s 40th birthday, this avant-garde landmark revolutionized modern literature with its stream-of-consciousness narrative.
Formation of the Soviet Union
The Treaty on the Creation of the USSR officially unified Russia, Transcaucasia, Ukraine, and Byelorussia into a massive communist state.
Also this year
Premiere of Nosferatu
March 4, 1922 | Film, Germany
Director F.W. Murnau unleashed Max Schreck's terrifying Count Orlok in an unauthorized adaptation of Dracula that defined German Expressionist cinema.
Mussolini’s March on Rome
October 1922 | Politics, Italy
Benito Mussolini and his Fascist Blackshirts marched on the Italian capital, leading King Victor Emmanuel III to appoint Mussolini as prime minister.
Publication of T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land
October 1922 | Poetry, United Kingdom
T.S. Eliot’s foundational modernist poem captured the disillusionment and psychological fragmentation of post-World War I Europe.
Establishment of the BBC
October 18, 1922 | Radio, UK
The British Broadcasting Company was formed, launching a pioneering national radio network that transformed daily life and public media.
Release of Nanook of the North
June 11, 1922 | Film, United States
Robert J. Flaherty’s silent film capturing the life of an Inuk man in the Arctic established the foundational conventions of feature documentary filmmaking.