Interwar period

If the British Empire were to be saved, it would take a renewal of Britain’s youth. Robert Baden-Powell had the answer: self-reliance, patriotism and the Boy Scouts.

In the inter-war years, football was a popular sport which drew huge crowds of spectators. The totalitarian regimes of Germany and Italy, argues Peter J. Beck, were not slow to realise the propaganda, potential of their nations' sporting successes – and soon Britain recognised the value of sport to its own national image.

Richard Sims looks at Japanese fascism in the 1930s.

Barbara Bush looks at the experience of black people in 1930s Britain.

Peter Beck sets contemporary reportage of and reaction to the 1924 Olympics in the context of their times.

Baron von Mildenstein and the S.S. support of Zionism in Germany from 1934-1936.