Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Art Deco cinemas, red telephone boxes and mock-Tudor semi-detached houses — the everyday buildings of the 1920s ...

A public seminar will examine the political forces and international influences behind the rise of authoritarian rule in ...

Across history, many Polish artists, musicians, actors and performers have adopted stage names at the start of their professional lives. These slick, glamorous monikers have allowed them to kick-start ...

Interwar Polish music has many unique qualities – but few are as telling as its linguistic and structural diversity. Reflecting not only the array of influences from the multi-ethnic Polish state, but ...

In the late 1920s, a group of German officers stood side by side at a range, practicing their marksmanship by firing at target dummies dressed in Polish and Czech military uniforms. Standing next to ...

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, ...