1 August 2005 in Thesis by Brett Holman | No comments
Today I officially began my candidature … I’m a PhD student! It must be nearly eight years since I was last a postgraduate research student (a masters degree in astrophysics). Oy vey.
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Airminded is the research blog of Brett Holman, a PhD student in the School of Historical Studies, University of Melbourne, Australia.
7 September 2008 in 1930s, Maps, Periodicals, Pictures, Post-blogging the Sudeten crisis, Quotes
This post is part of an experiment in post-blogging the Sudeten crisis of August-October 1938. See here for an introduction to the series.
At last, after all the endless reports of meetings to seemingly no end: actual details! As the above — from the Manchester Guardian (p. 9) — shows, the Czech autonomy proposals (first reported [...]
6 September 2008 in 1930s, Pictures, Post-blogging the Sudeten crisis, Quotes
This post is part of an experiment in post-blogging the Sudeten crisis of August-October 1938. See here for an introduction to the series.
Apologies for the fairly ordinary quality of the above (it’s a scan of a photocopy of a microfilm of the original …) but it illustrates a problem with relying on headlines for information, [...]
5 September 2008 in 1930s, Periodicals, Pictures, Post-blogging the Sudeten crisis, Quotes
This post is part of an experiment in post-blogging the Sudeten crisis of August-October 1938. See here for an introduction to the series.
So, we’re into the second week of the crisis (or rather, the second week for which I have newspaper sources), and as these headlines from The Times indicate (p. 12), the public [...]
4 September 2008 in Australia, Contemporary
As Chris noted here the other day, David Philips died recently. David was a recently retired associate professor in the School of Historical Studies at the University of Melbourne, where he taught for three decades, and had an international reputation in the study of crime and policing in 19th century Britain and the comparative study [...]
3 September 2008 in 1930s, Periodicals, Pictures, Post-blogging the Sudeten crisis, Quotes
This post is part of an experiment in post-blogging the Sudeten crisis of August-October 1938. See here for an introduction to the series.
More good news, or at least that’s how it is presented. The dailies today all have pretty similar headlines to those from The Times, above (p. 10), but their stories differ in detail. [...]
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