1. Architecture „Postwar modernist idealism swept away the slums with hope and a fresh aesthetic, but the optimism crumbled as quick as the concrete“.

2. Berthold Lubetkin „Britain is about 50 years behind, as though locked in a deep provincial sleep.“ British architects did use steel and concrete in their buildings, but covered them over with Portland stone.

3. It took the arrival of Lubetkin and other emigrants to wrench Britain into the future.

4. Penguin Pool in Regent's Park

5. Dudley Zoo Lubetkin's designs assert the modernist desire to impose human control and the primacy of the human gaze as the unashamed objectives of the zoo.

6. New Ways in Northampton by Peter Behrens - Britain's first white concrete box or "exercise in modernity".

7. De La Warr Pavilion at Bexhill in 1934 by Erich Mendelsohn and Serge Chermayeff

8. For George Bernard Shaw, the Pavilion signified that Bexhill had at last "emerged from barbarism".

9. Ladbroke Grove housing scheme, Kensal House by Maxwell Fry "No ordinary block of flats but a community in action"

10. Art Deco Cinemas Gala Bingo (Formerly Granada Tooting Cinema) 50-60 Mitcham Road, London Architect: Cecil Masey and Uren with interiors designed by Theodore Komisarjevsky

11. Old Odeon Art Deco Cinema, Kettlehouse Road, Kingstanding, Birmingham

12. Tube Stations Armos Grove South Wimbledon East Finchley

13. Modernist Music British dance band leader Jack Hylton, 1929 In the 1930s the influence of American Jazz led to the creation of British dance bands, who provided a social and popular music that began to dominate social occasions and the radio airwaves.

14. „Boom! Why does my heart go boom?“ Most famous British dance band vocalists included: ● Al Bowlly ● Alan Breeze ● Sam Browne ● Elsie Carlisle ● Sam Costa ● Evelyn Dall ● Denny Dennis ● Chick Henderson ● Anne Lenner ● Vera Lynn ● Val Rosing

15. Art during the Interwar years Paul Nash (11 May 1889 – 11 July 1946) was a British painter, surrealist and war artist, as well as a book-illustrator, writer and designer of applied art The Ypres Salient at Night, 1917 - 1918

16. "I am no longer an artist. I am a messenger who will bring back word from the men who are fighting to those who want the war to go on for ever. Feeble, inarticulate will be my message, but it will have a bitter truth and may it burn their lousy souls."

17. Vorticism Vorticism, an offshoot of Cubism, was a short-lived modernist movement in British art and poetry of the early 20th century. Davis Bomberg The Mud Bath, 1914

18. Henry Moore West Wind, 1928–29; Moore's first public commission was carved from Portland stone and shows the influence of Michelangelo's figures for the Medici Chapel and the Chac Mool figure.

19. Surrealism in Britain A Surrealist group developed in Britain and, according to Breton, their 1936 London International Surrealist Exhibition was a high water mark of the period and became the model for international exhibitions. Salvador Dalí, The Persistence of Memory

20. Birmingham Surrealists Maddox, The Strange Country John Melville, Landscape (1937)

21. Cinema

22. ● The Cinematograph Films Act ● „Quickies“ ● Silent Era ● First all-colour sound feature ● New talents ● MGM