Acquisitions

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• Post-blogging 1940

  10 June 2010 in 1940s, Blogging and tweeting, Post-blogging 1940

  Follow the events of 1940 day by day and week by week, seventy years later: Battle of Britain Day by Day - 28 July 1940 Duxford Operations Blog - 28 July 1940 Orwell Diaries - 28 July 1940 Spitfire Site - 24 July 1940 World War II Day-By-Day - 28 July 1940 World War II [...]

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• Finding the target

  31 July 2010 in 1910s, Maps, Plots

  View Zeppelins over London in a larger map Last year, Londonist gave us a very nifty map of London's V2 impact sites. Now they've come up with an equivalent for Zeppelin raids. Each of the sunbursts represents a bombfall. Clicking on them brings up a popup with information about the site and casualties (but, annoyingly, [...]

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• Acquisitions

  30 July 2010 in Acquisitions, Books

  Peter Ewer. Wounded Eagle: The Bombing of Darwin and Australia's Air Defence Scandal. Chatswood: New Holland, 2009. Based on the author's PhD thesis, this looks at the politics of Australia's air policy before the war as well as the air attacks on Australia during it. It was a random find -- surprised I hadn't heard [...]

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• A green sludge

  28 July 2010 in 1900s, 1910s, Art, Books, Nuclear, biological, chemical, Periodicals, Pictures

  This illustration, by A. C. Michael, is from T. Donovan Bayley's 'When the sea failed her' which appeared in Pall Mall Magazine in May 1909. It's subtitled 'The story of a war between England and the allies, and the terrible way it ended'. It's that terrible ending which makes this story stand out for me. [...]

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• Acquisitions

  23 July 2010 in Acquisitions, Books

  C. G. Grey. A History of the Air Ministry. London: George Allen & Unwin, 1940. A valuable compendium of information by a knowledgeable (though, Grey being Grey, hardly detached!) contemporary observer. The first section covers the period up to 1918 (including the Air Ministry's predecessors); the last the interwar period. In between there is a [...]

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• PDFing the Sudeten crisis

  19 July 2010 in Blogging and tweeting, Post-blogging the Sudeten crisis, Publications, Tools

  This post is part of an experiment in post-blogging the Sudeten crisis of August-October 1938. See here for an introduction to the series, and here for a conclusion. The entire series can be downloaded as a PDF (147 pages, 5.6 Mb). I've put the series of posts I did a couple of years ago on [...]

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