Betty Joel was one of the UK's most prolific designers, furniture makers and businesswomen during the 1920s and 30s. As part ...

The 1920s was a period of deflation, depression and persistent mass unemployment in Britain. If any decade, or substantial part of a decade, in interwar (pre-rearmament) Britain could properly be ...

The interwar decline of British landpower was a logical result from continued imperial commitments and from a national strategy based in reliance on the League of Nations, the Locarno pact, and, ...

For a wider discussion about the understandings of civilization in the period, see Richard Overy, The Morbid Age: Britain and the Crisis of Civilisation, 1919–1939 (London: Penguin, 2009). For ...