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 ...

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 ...

From Luxtorpedas to a poem by Julian Tuwim, from Polish film success to the Narty-Dancing-Brydż, trains were a huge part of Poland’s Interwar period. Glitzy, speedy (in some cases even more so than ...

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 ...

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. Heffer’s account of the era is not that of Richard Overy’s somewhat fatuous The Morbid Age: Britain and the ...

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, ...