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• The Germans are coming!

  13 May 2008 in 1910s, 1940s, Periodicals, Phantom airships and other panics, Pictures

  Via Museum of Hoaxes, the Nazi air marker hoax — though it seems to me that it was not a hoax in the sense of a deliberate attempt to deceive, but rather an…

• CFP: MHJ

  9 May 2008 in Australia, Periodicals

  This year, because I don’t have enough to do I’ve joined the editorial collective of the Melbourne Historical Journal. Here’s the call for papers for Volume 36:

  Call for Papers

  Submissions Due: 1st June…

• Doing my part to bridge the Two Cultures

  9 May 2008 in Australia, Conferences, Maps

  Admittedly, not very much!

  I’m giving a talk at 4pm, next Friday, 16 May 2008, in the Fritz Loewe Theatre at the School of Earth Sciences, University of Melbourne. The title is “Facing Armageddon: Britain…

• A giant of the air

  7 May 2008 in 1910s, Aircraft, Art, Books, Pictures

  A GIANT OF THE AIR. A HANDLEY-PAGE FOUR-ENGINED BIPLANE.

  A Handley Page V/1500, the Kabul bomber. Below i…

• The end of the world as we know it

  5 May 2008 in 1930s, Civil defence, Periodicals, Quotes

  I’m currently looking at the air menace as portrayed in the press during the Sudeten crisis in late September-early October 1938. The interesting thing is that there isn’t much, at least not directly. There wa…