Many of us were surprised when the head of the Army advocated conscription in the face of the Russian danger. Less surprised that the Prime Minister quickly dismissed the idea – it would certainly ...

The United States of the mid-1930s was a land roiled by economic desperation and political fury. On Hallowe’en 1936, a ...

¶ Passed and sent to George V for signature the most bitterly fought (for eight months) measure of this session: the Labor Government’s Coal Bill, previously passed by the House of Commons (TIME, ...

The origins of Blitzkrieg are often seen as purely German innovation, but some of its core elements were actually influenced by British military thinking between the World Wars. In the 1920s and 1930s ...

Before the creation of the NHS, Britain relied on a patchwork of private and charitable providers for health care. The patchwork is back. “We are seeing the return of the mixed economy,” says Barry ...

¶ Jewish fears that Great Britain might someday give up her Palestine mandate and leave the Zionist colonies there to be slaughtered by the Arabs were dispelled, last week, when Prime Minister James ...

Extracted from: New Left review (London) September-October 1990, pages 95-115. During the inter war years (1918-1930) before the intellectual radicalism of the 1930s took over, the idea of the ...

A London tabloid recently published a still from a 1933 black and white film taken at Scotland’s Balmoral Castle showing 7-year-old Princess Elizabeth, the future queen of England, extending her right ...