...ra of Aerial Navigation," wherein he seeks to advance scientific and technical proofs that the apparently phantastic predictions which he made in his former work are logically justified'.2 According to the Standard, one of the most interesting chapters in the new book, which will be published at the end of this month by Theodore Thomas and Co., of Leipsic [sic], is that entitled 'England no longer an Island,' which argues that the most important p...
...hat, for example, both world wars are excluded; or to take another, more local, example, the Tonypandy riots of 1910 are in but the defeat of the strikes in 1911 is out. (More selfishly, Wales played an important role in both phantom airship scares: I'll now be able to research the 1909 one in the Welsh press but not the 1913 one.) Of course, absent full and universal coverage boundary problems like this will always arise. But Welsh Newspapers Onl...
...nationalism. Needs a sequel! Fernando Esposito. Fascism, Aviation and Mythical Modernity. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. A much-needed analysis of the relationship between fascism and aviation, in both Italy and Germany (perhaps with an emphasis on the former, which is about right). Add in 'mythical modernity' and I'm sold. David Hall. Worktown: The Astonishing Story of the 1930s Project that Launched Mass-Observation. London:...
...Chowder Bay — II (0) 17 May Fiasco at Chowder Bay — I (2) 12 May Return to call of the clouds (0) 6 May Introducing @TroveAirRaidBot (1) 27 April Modern wonders — II (6) 20 April Modern wonders — I (4) 15 April Don’t let’s be beastly to the RAF — II (2) 6 April Don’t let’s be beastly to the RAF — I (2) 30 March The first kill of Nadar (0) 24 March Life during wartime (2) 16 March Aerial theatre in the time of coronavirus? (0) 24 February Partial F...
...tirely, because I was in search of my ancestors' home: a tiny little place called Tremayne, which is towards Land's End, in the hundred of Penwith. To get there I caught a train to Camborne, then a bus to Praze-an-Beeble (no, really!), and then walked along a winding country lane with no footpath and some very high hedgerows. Luckily I didn't get run over, as that would rather have spoiled what was a beautiful day. This is the turn-off into Tremay...
...I've taken it off for now. Finally, I'll just mention Wikisource's 'Periodicals, General Interest' category and the serials list at the Online Books Page at the University of Pennsylvania. These collate links to some useful periodicals like Blackwood's Magazine from various sources like the Internet Archive; but due to the lack of any unified search across volumes they're not online archives in the same sense as the above. Only some are British, a...
Evan I'm excited by this online archive - principally because it has the Daily Worker from 1933 to 1945. This means less time trawling through broadsheets at the NLA in Canberra. Yeehaw! Brett Holman Eventually ukpressonline should have the Daily Worker/Morning Star from 1930 right up to now (or rather 4 weeks ago), so it will be even more useful. Though I have to say the interface is not ideal for serious searching, as opposed to hunting down ar...
...r if I didn't have to check them too, and not many researchers outside of Wales can read Welsh. But when combined with the superior user interface and the completely free access, this makes WNO the most impressive online newspaper archive in Britain. The only limitations are the scope: nothing later than 1919, and nothing that's not Welsh (though it now includes a few titles published outside Wales, in Chester and Liverpool, aimed at or including...
...s – to discuss the impact aviation has had throughout the regions at the local and global level. The Aviation Cultures Mk.VI Conference will be held from the 15th to the 17th of July 2022, both at the University of Southern Queensland in Toowoomba and online. Prizes for best papers will be awarded, and further details will be released closer to the conference date. We are keen to see wide participation from early career researchers and people with...
...irst: Pemberton Billing's short-lived Aerocraft has that honour). I've actually already looked at Flight, which is available at the SLV, so I would rather have had the harder-to-find Aeroplane put online instead; but Australian holdings of the early issues of Flight are fragmentary so this is good too. There are no charges for access, at least for now, which is surprising (and welcome). No indications that this will change in future, but it would...
