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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Arthur William Hobart’s black and white photographs of towns and suburbs show how Britain's landscape has dramatically changed. Hobart was commissioned to take aerial images, which span England and ...

Before the creation of the NHS, Britain relied on a patchwork of private and charitable providers for health care. The patchwork is back. “We are seeing the return of the mixed economy,” says Barry ...

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 ...

Britain is back in recession. According to the Office for National Statistics (ONS), the economy shrank by 0.2 percent over the first three months of 2012, following a 0.3 percent contraction at the ...