Comments on: An unpleasant surprise http://airminded.org/2005/12/22/an-unpleasant-surprise/ Airpower and British society, 1908-1941 Fri, 05 Sep 2008 20:02:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Airminded · The Clios and the Carnival http://airminded.org/2005/12/22/an-unpleasant-surprise/#comment-9312 Airminded · The Clios and the Carnival Tue, 28 Nov 2006 10:01:06 +0000 http://airminded.org/?p=87#comment-9312 [...] One is for nominations for the 2006 Cliopatria Awards, for the best bits of the historioblogosphere this past year. Nominations close on 30 November. Collectively, my R&D associates have done well. Revise and Dissent itself has been nominated in the best group blog category. Alun Salt’s Archaeoastronomy, Kevin Levin’s Civil War Memory, and Jeremy Bogg’s Clioweb have all been nominated for best individual blog. David Davisson’s Patahistory Manifesto has been nominated for best post, which makes me rather ashamed to note that my own An unpleasant surprise is also a contender in that category. Finally, Alun has another nomination, this time for the best series of posts with his Vidi not-a-carnivals. Good luck all! [...] [...] One is for nominations for the 2006 Cliopatria Awards, for the best bits of the historioblogosphere this past year. Nominations close on 30 November. Collectively, my R&D associates have done well. Revise and Dissent itself has been nominated in the best group blog category. Alun Salt’s Archaeoastronomy, Kevin Levin’s Civil War Memory, and Jeremy Bogg’s Clioweb have all been nominated for best individual blog. David Davisson’s Patahistory Manifesto has been nominated for best post, which makes me rather ashamed to note that my own An unpleasant surprise is also a contender in that category. Finally, Alun has another nomination, this time for the best series of posts with his Vidi not-a-carnivals. Good luck all! [...]

]]> By: Google: 200 years of news « Archaeoastronomy http://airminded.org/2005/12/22/an-unpleasant-surprise/#comment-2660 Google: 200 years of news « Archaeoastronomy Wed, 06 Sep 2006 13:26:21 +0000 http://airminded.org/?p=87#comment-2660 [...] Google now has opened up a news archive reaching back a couple of centuries, reports the BBC. My first impressions of mixed. I looked for Sir Arthur Evans, and found the vast majority of stories were behind paywalls. However Time has open archives, so you can read about a Tale of Two Palaces and the Truth About Knossos?. If you’re planning a little hero-worship of biographical blogging there there’s also scope for surprise. Sir Arthur Evans is mentioned in passing with another story, Knights Must Play, about Sir Leo Chiozza Money. I wouldn’t mention it as Evans is only briefly named, were it not for description of Chiozza’s arrest in Hyde Park: The persons on the chairs were, in the opinion of the constables, “behaving in a manner reasonably likely to offend against public decency.” Therefore strong hands were laid upon the young woman, who remained passive, and upon the gentleman, who roared: “Hands off! I’m not the usual riffraff! I’m a man of substance!” [...] [...] Google now has opened up a news archive reaching back a couple of centuries, reports the BBC. My first impressions of mixed. I looked for Sir Arthur Evans, and found the vast majority of stories were behind paywalls. However Time has open archives, so you can read about a Tale of Two Palaces and the Truth About Knossos?. If you’re planning a little hero-worship of biographical blogging there there’s also scope for surprise. Sir Arthur Evans is mentioned in passing with another story, Knights Must Play, about Sir Leo Chiozza Money. I wouldn’t mention it as Evans is only briefly named, were it not for description of Chiozza’s arrest in Hyde Park: The persons on the chairs were, in the opinion of the constables, “behaving in a manner reasonably likely to offend against public decency.” Therefore strong hands were laid upon the young woman, who remained passive, and upon the gentleman, who roared: “Hands off! I’m not the usual riffraff! I’m a man of substance!” [...]

]]> By: Airminded · My first flame http://airminded.org/2005/12/22/an-unpleasant-surprise/#comment-1897 Airminded · My first flame Thu, 27 Jul 2006 14:13:42 +0000 http://airminded.org/?p=87#comment-1897 [...] Andy leaps to the defence of Sir Leo Chiozza Money in an erudite, witty and cogent comment. For the record, however, I do not wear sandels or even sandals. [...] [...] Andy leaps to the defence of Sir Leo Chiozza Money in an erudite, witty and cogent comment. For the record, however, I do not wear sandels or even sandals. [...]

]]> By: Andy http://airminded.org/2005/12/22/an-unpleasant-surprise/#comment-1891 Andy Wed, 26 Jul 2006 20:18:15 +0000 http://airminded.org/?p=87#comment-1891 Your a prat who likes to distort history and I bet you wear sandels Brainwashed little moron Your a prat who likes to distort history and I bet you wear sandels
Brainwashed little moron

]]> By: alun » Seen Elsewhere http://airminded.org/2005/12/22/an-unpleasant-surprise/#comment-265 alun » Seen Elsewhere Fri, 23 Dec 2005 21:16:18 +0000 http://airminded.org/?p=87#comment-265 [...] Further racism in publishing comes from Brett Holman at Airminded in An unpleasant surprise. Brett descibes finding the book The Peril of the White caught by Sir Leo Chiozza Money, and then descibes what he finds inside it. I should point out that you can’t believe everything you read on the web and when Brett claimed there was an author Admiral Sir Reginald Aylmer Ranfurly Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax, I had to check it. But it’s true, there is! [...] [...] Further racism in publishing comes from Brett Holman at Airminded in An unpleasant surprise. Brett descibes finding the book The Peril of the White caught by Sir Leo Chiozza Money, and then descibes what he finds inside it. I should point out that you can’t believe everything you read on the web and when Brett claimed there was an author Admiral Sir Reginald Aylmer Ranfurly Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax, I had to check it. But it’s true, there is! [...]

]]> By: Brett Holman http://airminded.org/2005/12/22/an-unpleasant-surprise/#comment-264 Brett Holman Fri, 23 Dec 2005 03:48:22 +0000 http://airminded.org/?p=87#comment-264 Yeah, I haven't read Lindqvist closely yet, but I think there's something in what he says. My impression is that these sort of genocidal fantasies of bombing other races out of existence were mostly pre-1914, in fiction anyway; after the war bombing was seen as less as a solution to Britain's (perceived) problems and more of a threat. But then of course there's air control. And I wonder if race didn't figure into the way in which the air raids of the 1930s (China, Abyssinia, Spain) were interpreted for their implications for Britain. The message to take away from all this is that everything is relevant to my thesis. EVERYTHING! Yeah, I haven’t read Lindqvist closely yet, but I think there’s something in what he says. My impression is that these sort of genocidal fantasies of bombing other races out of existence were mostly pre-1914, in fiction anyway; after the war bombing was seen as less as a solution to Britain’s (perceived) problems and more of a threat. But then of course there’s air control. And I wonder if race didn’t figure into the way in which the air raids of the 1930s (China, Abyssinia, Spain) were interpreted for their implications for Britain.

The message to take away from all this is that everything is relevant to my thesis. EVERYTHING!

]]> By: Chris Williams http://airminded.org/2005/12/22/an-unpleasant-surprise/#comment-263 Chris Williams Thu, 22 Dec 2005 22:15:27 +0000 http://airminded.org/?p=87#comment-263 Ah, the Savidge Inquiry. Far closer to my job description than airmindedness. But hang on - have you read Lunquist's _History of Bombing_? This is a polemic rather than an analysis, but it does a good job of trying to link the rhetoric of the coming race war with that of area bombing and the knock-out blow. ObSillyName from history: Trafford Trafford, chair of the Cheshire bench in the C19th - I think 1820s, but DQMOT. Ah, the Savidge Inquiry. Far closer to my job description than airmindedness. But hang on - have you read Lunquist’s _History of Bombing_? This is a polemic rather than an analysis, but it does a good job of trying to link the rhetoric of the coming race war with that of area bombing and the knock-out blow.

ObSillyName from history: Trafford Trafford, chair of the Cheshire bench in the C19th - I think 1820s, but DQMOT.

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