Live successfully! Advice from the 1930s
Stored in their original cardboard posting box for 75 years, twelve books of the Live Successfully! educational course show that personal development literature was going strong in the 1930s. What was the advice given then? Is it still relevant? That will be the focus of a series of posts on this blog over the months ahead. Cardboard box with 1938 postmark over George VI stamp The course was published by Odhams Press , an innovative business that eventually succumbed to financial pressures and ceased trading in 1969. The constituent books are still in circulation though, fetching £5 each at some online booksellers. Most are uncertain about the date of publication. There is a copyright reference, G638, that may mean something specific to those in the publishing trade. However, the postmark is clear evidence that they were around in the 1930s - a decade characterised by devastating economic decline, still referred to as the Great Depression . ...