Comments on: Post-blogging the 1909 scareships

By: Links at Mother’s Cupboard » Notes from dissertopia

Links at Mother’s Cupboard » Notes from dissertopia — Tue, 26 May 2009 12:45:59 +0000

[...] Airminded · Post-blogging the 1909 scareships “Starting tomorrow, I’m going to try some more post-blogging. It’s 100 years since the phantom airship wave of 1909, when mysterious aerial visitors appeared in the night skies over Britain. Or at least, stories about mysterious aerial visitors filled the newspapers of Britain. It’s hard to tell from this distance: the only evidence we have about the scareships are the press reports, which could be a problem if you are interested in a possible underlying reality. But then again, since the number of (alleged) phantom airship witnesses is relatively small, the press was the only way most people would have learned that their sky was being invaded by Zeppelins every night. So for them as for us, the stories are the event itself. (The phantom airship scare did not take place, perhaps?)” [...]

By: There Will Be Zeppelins

There Will Be Zeppelins — Sun, 17 May 2009 00:33:41 +0000

[...] Holman (Airminded) is paleoblogging the phantom airship scare of 1909. Exactly one hundred years ago this month, Britain was bedeviled with a wave of mysterious zeppelin [...]

By: [links] Link salad has a slow morning | jlake.com

[links] Link salad has a slow morning | jlake.com — Sat, 16 May 2009 18:20:50 +0000

[...] Post-blogging the 1909 scareships — (Snurched from The Edge of the American West.) [...]

By: Brett Holman

Brett Holman — Sat, 16 May 2009 06:10:06 +0000

Thanks, Paul. It's not a common approach -- but see David Silbey on the Boxer Uprising and Ross Mahoney on the Mareth Line. There are quite a few primary source blogs out there, which republish entries from diaries or letters day by day (e.g. by George Orwell) but "post-blogging" is more synthetic and more discursive than this approach allows.

By: Paul Gilster

Paul Gilster — Fri, 15 May 2009 20:26:37 +0000

Brett, the whole post-blogging idea is new to me, but I love how it's working out in this series. Do many history-related blogs try this approach? Fascinating way to present the airship material.

By: Brett Holman

Brett Holman — Thu, 14 May 2009 14:11:02 +0000

Actually, mystery aircraft (including balloons) seem to have first appeared around about the early 1890s, so maybe it was the Michelson-Morley experiment which causes the aether to deteriorate ...

By: Erik Lund

Erik Lund — Wed, 13 May 2009 16:49:09 +0000

Actually, it was lamas from Mu.
Yay, now I don't have to have an opinion about high art! (Picasso –he's the one who draws just like Bill Amend, and "Hiroshima, Mon Amour," –it has subtitles?)

By: ekogan

ekogan — Wed, 13 May 2009 16:28:22 +0000

Unfortunately, 1909 was the last expedition that MASSA (Martian Aetheric Space Survey Agency) could mount using airships because of the rapid destruction of the aether due to the spread of Einsteinian relativity. It wasn’t until 1947 that saucer technology was sufficiently advanced to resume exploration.

By: Brett Holman

Brett Holman — Wed, 13 May 2009 15:58:14 +0000

Yeah, 2009-1909 = 100, not 90!

By: Postblogging 1909 « The Edge of the American West

Postblogging 1909 « The Edge of the American West — Wed, 13 May 2009 15:48:12 +0000

[...] Holman, whose series post-blogging the Sudeten Crisis inspired my Boxer Uprising Day to Day, is now starting to work his way through the “phantom airship wave” in 1909 Britain: It’s 90 years since the phantom [...]