Leading historians share the texts that have inspired and informed their work

In 1939, at the start of the Second World War, the government planned to evacuate 1.5 million civilians, mostly school children, mothers and other vulnerable people, from cities at risk of bombing to

A shady urban plot has been transformed into a meaningful woodland-inspired space that blends a naturalistic English planting style with elements of the owner’s Korean heritage

Knapp’s sweet spot WHEN the former BBC and ...

John P. Murphy New Deal Art 336pp. Thames and Hudson. Paperback, £19.99. Seymour Fogel’s “Wealth of the Nation”, installed in 1942 in a federal building in Washington DC, depicts a group of workers en

Henry Jeffreys takes a fresh look at much-maligned Germany