Sometimes I worry about the British.
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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.
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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11 December 2007 at 11:28 pm
Jakob
Well, let’s be honest - did all those PAL whatsits stop General Jack Ripper? Poppycock! Just give our chaps an open cockpit to feel the wind in their hair, and they’ll sort Jerry out good and proper!
12 December 2007 at 2:41 am
Brett Holman
Well, maybe, but there’s a reason why SPECTRE keeps trying to nick your nukes! Put a bicycle lock on them, even, and they’ll go bother some other member of the nuclear club.
13 December 2007 at 8:24 pm
Cardinal Wolsey
Blimey. I think there may be some connection here between meccano nuke triggers and why the Nimrod is still flying so far past it’s sell-by date….