Today, I was reading an account of the Cambridge Scientists’ Anti-War Group in Gary Werskey, The Visible College (London: Allen Lane, 1978). On p. 230 I came across the following passage: The Association of Scientific Workers strongly endorsed their work,48 as did J. B. S. Haldane. I turned to the endnotes to check the reference, […]
Last month I touched on the Hidden Hand, an alleged German conspiracy during the First World War, supposedly undermining the British war effort from within. Unfortunately (or perhaps fortunately!) my sources don’t include some of the more extreme publications pushing this conspiracy theory, but I have looked at the Daily Mail, which has published the
A bit earlier than usual, the winners of the 2008 Cliopatria Awards for the best history blogging of the past year have been announced. They are The Edge of the American West (best group blog), Northwest History (best individual blog), Wynken de Worde (best new blog), Tenured Radical (best post), Walking the Berkshires (best series
[Cross-posted at Revise and Dissent.] I recently rewatched one of my favourite science fiction films, The Day the Earth Stood Still — the 1951 original, of course, not the currently-screening remake (which I have yet to see, but tend to doubt that it will improve over the original in any area other than special effects).
