...me. (And John Holman's father, also named John, had a brother named James -- Jacob?) I'm going to stop there before my brain melts! After that it was back to Truro, via Tremayne, Praze and Camborne. I wish I'd been a bit better prepared -- if I had been, perhaps I would have known about the former Methodist chapel in Praze, or found the address of the Holmans (if not my Holmans) in Tremayne from the 1841 census. But it was still very evocative to...
...pel.2 Here the argument is that Americans generally believed that aircraft -- and the new connections they would create between people and peoples -- would bring about a golden age of peace and prosperity. The same could not be said of the British (at least, not in general). Having hesitantly asserted a bold generalisation, I probably ought to try and explain it. Here are some possibilities, none of them particularly compelling: Time. The First Wo...
...trying to appeal to female readers. The speculation requires another reach --that more women are involved in middle management in the larger WWII-era aviation and advertising industry than is our common perception; but I think that that is at least a defensible proposition. So, then, out of my chain of wild-assed theories, a conclusion: audience receptivity produces an observable shift in the visual iconography of flight during the war years, away...
...walking distance of the BL and KCL. I found Goodenough to be very pleasant -- decent accommodation, two passable pubs, and a good bunch of people (mostly antipodean and north american over the summer, in my experience). I don't know the going rate these days because I sleep on a friend's couch when I visit. That would make me a 'scunger' I suppose. I must find a way to get that one on the cv. Good luck and feel free to email with any questions. Ja...
...that LaTeX is available for Windows, OS X and your various Unices and Unix-work-alikes. (For more comparisons, see here (with pictures!) and here.) OK, but just what is LaTeX? It's actually not strictly comparable to Word, because it's not a word processor: it's essentially a markup language, like HTML. So for example, in HTML the first sentence in this paragraph would be written like this: OK, but just what <b>is</b> LaTeX? In LaTeX, the equival...
...The motion nearly always fails, but then that's not the point. Noel-Baker -- a former professor of international relations and a keen internationalist -- had two related topics to discuss on this day. The first was the increasingly 'systematic and merciless bombardment of the civil population from the air' in Abyssinia, China and Spain: The Mayor of Canton the other day sent a telegram to the mayors of all the great towns of Europe and America gi...
...d to be explained why the majority of the stories claim it was the British -- even when told by Americans? It could perhaps be claimed that this is a later accretion to the story, but then that puts us back into urban legend territory. Perhaps that's not a problem, as the wooden bomb story clearly is an urban legend as well as (probably) a true story; maybe cross-fertilisation took place. And then there's the fact that the wooden bomb stories pred...
...somewhere enjoying it. I'll close with a couple of other ideas for serious-but-seriously-offensive games: Eichmann in Berlin. As Transportation Administrator for the Final Solution, it's your job to dispatch Jews to the camps via the railway system. You will have to navigate the Nazi polycratic bureaucracy in order to ensure you get enough rolling stock for your needs over the competing claims of the armed forces, industry and agriculture. Victor...
...t the popularity of war toys in GB -- especially high quality tin soldiers -- had something to do with the initial popularity of WWI and the high rate of volunteerism. Has this pretty much been debunked at this point? Brett Holman Hmm, I don't know, but offhand I'd say it was unlikely -- toy soldiers were surely popular from some time in the Victorian period, well before WWI (this post would seem to back that up). So they're part of a Victorian or...
...length > 0) { navbar = new Tarski.Navbar(container); } }); ‹ Ending Hendon -- IV: 1929-1931 [...] Brett Holman Chris: I don't think there was any specific RAF-RN tiff in 1929 but then I don't think they ever needed an excuse! On the other hand, even though the FAA was technically RAF the inclusion of an aircraft carrier in the scenario does suggest -- at least as far as propaganda was concerned -- that there was a place for the RN in the next war....
