The next History Carnival
The next History Carnival is going up on 1 June at Aqueduct, so don’t forget to send in your nominations, either directly to amy AT amystevensonline DOT com or via the form.
Blogging, tweeting and podcasting
May 2006
Blogging, tweeting and podcasting, Links
Revise and Dissent and other blogs
I was extremely flattered to be asked, along with a number of very fine history bloggers, by Cliopatria’s Ralph Luker to participate in a new group blog at the History News Network. We’ve called it Revise and Dissent and it’s been up and running for nearly a week now! Unfortunately, its launch has coincided with
Conferences and talks, Thesis
Propellors and propaganda
I’m giving a talk next Wednesday as part of the History Department’s Work In Progress Day, and that’s the title I would have given it, had I been the least bit imaginative the day I wrote the abstract. Instead I have a nothing title (“Airpower and British society: plans and progress”), and to go along
1930s, Books, Disarmament
The flower of an entire generation
P. R. C. Groves explains why, in his view, Britain in the early 1930s was possessed by a ‘national defeatism’, namely the idea that war was immoral and should be banned, and the nations disarmed: The origins of the malady may be summarized as: the Voluntary System, the Somme and Passchendaele. The sacrifice of the
Acquisitions, Books
Acquisitions
John Feather. A History of British Publishing. London and New York: Routledge, 2006. 2nd edition. Most of my primary sources, so far, are books; this will help me understand the economics and the ideologies of the book publishing industry. Corey Robin. Fear: The History of a Political Idea. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press,
Blogging, tweeting and podcasting
History Carnival 31
Welcome to History Carnival 31! Mr Wells’ celebrated Time Traveller voyaged into the distant future, but we will have the levers on our time machine set firmly in the reverse position — less chance of running into a Morlock that way. To help us navigate the currents and eddies of the historical ether, we read
1920s
The 1926 General Strike
It’s 80 years to the day since the end of the 1926 General Strike, which lasted just nine days. It had long been anticipated or feared (depending on ideology) as the precursor to a socialist revolution, on the 1917 Bolshevik model, but this turned out not to be the case. It was begun, in somewhat
Blogging, tweeting and podcasting, Thesis
The post not posted
I have been finishing off a long-ish post that I’ve been meaning to write for a while, but now I don’t think I will post it. This is because I came to realise that it’s actually stuff I want to write about more formally at some stage, in my thesis or in a paper. Generally
Blogging, tweeting and podcasting
The Carnival is coming
Airminded is hosting the 31st History Carnival on 15 May, a week from today! I already have a good number of nominations, but I need more. Please send your suggestions for the best recent posts in the historioblogosphere to me by way of the form, or drop me a line through the contact page. And
Books, Links
Air University Press titles online
Air University Press, the publishing arm of the USAF‘s Air University, has most of its books available in PDF format for free download. As one might expect, the subject matter is mostly American and recent, but some are on-topic for me, including Williamson Murray’s Strategy for Defeat: The Luftwaffe, 1933-1945, George K. Williams’ Biplanes and