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• Tuesday, 30 August 1938

  30 August 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.

  There is some hopeful news today, resulting from the flurry of activity of yesterday. From The Times, p. 10:
  It became known in London late last night that, as the result of Lord Runciman’s [...]

• Monday, 29 August 1938

  29 August 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.

  The Sudeten crisis (or Czech crisis, or Czech-German crisis as it is called here) wasn’t front-page news in the Manchester Guardian on 29 August — it was on page 9. But that was [...]

• Acquisitions

  29 August 2008 in Acquisitions, Books

  S. P. MacKenzie. The Battle of Britain on Screen: ‘The Few’ in British Film and Television Drama. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2007. A short but densely-packed book, a series of cases studies of key representations of the Battle: The Lion Has Wings, The First of the Few, Angels One Five, Reach for the Sky, Battle [...]

• Post-blogging the Sudeten crisis

  28 August 2008 in 1930s, Blogging, Periodicals, Post-blogging the Sudeten crisis

  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.
  Tomorrow I’m starting a bit of an experiment, an idea I had after doing a post on Human Smoke a few months back. We’re coming up on the 70th anniversary of the Sudeten [...]

• Screening the knock-out blow

  26 August 2008 in 1900s, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, Film

  Last year I gave a lecture where I said that Things to Come, the 1936 Alexander Korda production of H. G. Wells’ novel The Shape of Things to Come, was not a very popular film, that not many people would have seen it. I had to retract that, but I then said that
  I stand [...]