Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Art Deco cinemas, red telephone boxes and mock-Tudor semi-detached houses — the everyday buildings of the 1920s ...

A notable global trend is influencing national mindsets. There seems to be a sense of invulnerability—perhaps a natural aspect of human psychology—that fosters an excessive optimism about the chances ...

The centenary of Poland’s regained independence might have already passed, but a revival of interwar culture, particularly music, is still on the up. In recent years, an increasing number of bands ...

Interwar Polish music has many unique qualities – but few are as telling as its linguistic and structural diversity. Reflecting not only the array of influences from the multi-ethnic Polish state, but ...

The Royal Institute of British Architects has urged the UK government to retrofit over three million homes in England to help cut carbon emissions and tackle fuel poverty. In a report named Homes for ...

In the late 1920s, a group of German officers stood side by side at a range, practicing their marksmanship by firing at target dummies dressed in Polish and Czech military uniforms. Standing next to ...

Noise was first considered a public health issue in interwar Britain – called the “age of noise” by the author and essayist Aldous Huxley. In this era, the proliferation of mechanical sounds, ...

In the chaos and poverty of interwar Britain sprang up a hardy breed of guerrilla homebuilder: plotlanders. Foreshadowing both trailer parks and modern squatters, they constructed semi-permanent ...