Members of the League of Nations looking over their shoulders during an assembly in Geneva, Switzerland, 1920. (Photo by Hulton Archive / Getty Images) Historians often interpret the history of Europe ...

To what extent can history, as a knowledge form, serve as an orientation in life? How can we, via a reconstruction of our past, form historical self-images that would simultaneously provide a ...

Sing As We Go: Britain Between the Wars, by Simon Heffer. Penguin Random House, London, 2023, 948 pp. Sing As We Go (the title of a popular film by Gracie Fields, one of England’s most popular stars ...

Three new books delve into how Japanese politicians, military officers, and academics navigated the tumultuous transformations of the interwar period: their country’s rapid modernization, the ...

List of abbreviations -- Maps -- 1: Introduction -- 2: First World War -- Pre-war period -- Beginnings -- How the war was fought -- US home front -- Consequences -- 3: Second World War -- Interwar ...

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, ...

Here’s What You Need To Remember:All in all, Roma and its sisters were probably the least capable of the world’s final generation of fast battleships, with the likely exception of ...