13:38, Thu, Oct 3, 2024 Updated: 15:50, Thu, Oct 3, 2024 Incredible aerial images of 1930s Britain showing towns and suburbs before decades of modernisation took hold have been digitised and released ...

In 1933, British author and essayist J. B. Priestley took a series of trips through England, south to west to north to east, in search of "Englishness." His record, English Journey, was published the ...

No one knows what will happen in a post-Brexit United Kingdom. The advocates for leaving the European Union promised a sort of Valhalla of beautiful times where jobs were going to be plentiful and ...

A south London house been listed at Grade II after Historic England said its ‘remarkable survival' showcased 'the architectural ideals of the 1930s’ Number 10 Dorchester Drive, in Herne Hill, was ...

This article examines the spaces, materiality, and practices of (in)formal education and citizenship bound up in the educational cultures of the Council for the Preservation of Rural England (CPRE) in ...

Today, Historic England publishes the Air Pictures Portleven Collection - a unique collection of interwar aerial images taken by little known aerial photographer, Arthur William Hobart, which has been ...

The level of inequalities in premature mortality between different areas of Britain has almost surpassed those seen shortly before the economic crash of 1929 and the economic depression of the 1930s, ...

Britain's houses have never been more cramped, with newly built properties offering the smallest living rooms since homes constructed before the Second World War, according to new research. Analysis ...