Alwyn Turner specialises in “bottom-up history – or, to be more precise, middle-up history”, said Robbie Millen in The Times. In his series of books on 20th-century Britain, his focus has been not so ...

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, ...

The military-industrial complex in the interwar years -- The warfare state and the nationalisation of Britain, 1939-55 -- The expert state: the military-scientific complex in the interwar years -- The ...