February 2009

1900s, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, After 1950, Books, Counterfactuals, Periodicals, Plots and tables, Thesis

A tale of two cityscapes

Some more navel-gazingpost-thesis analysis. Above is a plot of the number of primary sources (1908-1941) I cite by date of publication. (Published sources only, excluding newspaper articles — of which there are a lot — and government documents. Also, it’s not just airpower stuff, though it mostly is.) I actually have no idea if it’s […]

Blogging, tweeting and podcasting

Historioblogosphere omnibus

As my mind has been on other matters of late, I’ve been a bit remiss in attending to matters historioblogospheric. So here are some of the things I’ve not noted: The Military History Carnival has a new home at Battlefield Biker. I think Gavin Robinson deserves many thanks and much praise for starting up the

Plots and tables, Thesis, Tools and methods, Words

Clouds

Partly in lieu of the thing itself, but mainly just for fun, here are some word clouds of my thesis (generated with Wordle). So the above image shows the 75 most frequent words in the entire document, with the biggest word being the most common. (So it’s something to do with air and war and

Conferences and talks

Reading and Exeter

Thanks to Jonathan for the tip: the Bombing, States and Peoples in Western Europe 1940-1945 project is holding a workshop at the University of Reading on 13 March 2009, on ‘War, Bombing, and Trauma: World War 2 and Comparative Perspectives’. It’s free but the registration deadline is 3 March 2009. They are also holding an

Art, Australia, Civil defence, Contemporary, Pictures

The fire

I don’t have anything deep or moving to say about the bushfires which destroyed several towns on the north-east edge of Melbourne on Saturday (try here instead). Everyone I know is (I think) safe, which is the first thing to say, but beyond that … the official death toll is currently 181, but is sure

1930s, Aircraft, Art, Periodicals, Pictures

Mirrors and lenses

Via Modern Mechanix comes this supposed Japanese suicide bomb. It’s from the April 1933 issue of Modern Mechanix, an American magazine. It’s not an aeroplane but a precision guided munition, with the guidance supplied by the pilot inside the bomb itself. The accompanying article claims that Japan was using such bombs in China. Now, this

1910s, Periodicals, Words

Cabbage crates coming over the briny?

Some perfectly ordinary banter, c. 1917: First “Hun”: “Did you see old Cole’s zoom on a quirk this morning?” Second “Hun”: “No, what happened?” First “Hun”: “Oh, nothing to write home about … stalled his ‘bus and pancaked thirty feet … crashed completely … put a vertical gust up me … just as I was

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