...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...
...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...
...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...
...etter than the offline equivalent, the central part of the user experience -- i.e. actually looking at articles and pages -- is definitely one of the best out there, even compared with Trove. Of course you have to be concerned about copyright, and you can't do much without funding; so I'm glad that the First World War years will be coming online, and with any luck the years in between too. In any case I'm sure I'll be returning to WNO frequently!...
...ppelin menace and the Invisible Hand’ (2) 13 December Alien airmen and will-o’-the-wisp bridges (2) 5 December The thunderclaps of August (2) 26 November It’s that quote again — V (0) 20 November It’s that quote again — IV (0) 7 November @TroveAirBot 2 (0) 26 October It’s that quote again — III (0) 24 October It’s that quote again — II (0) 1 October Anzac and Aviator (0) 28 September Self-archive: ‘The meaning of Hendon’ (0) 19 September It’s that...
...n raider plane "caught amidst an anti-aircraft barrage of bursting shells" -- somewhere over the British coast. The balloon-shaped object in lower left-hand corner was not identified, but London caption emphasized it was not a balloon. Whether it was a "mystery weapon" of any nature could not be ascertained. Picture was sent from London by cable as swarms of German raiders continued to batter the British coast. The same photo, rotated 180 degrees...
...ve is free; near-complete from 1828 to 2008; contains both images and text -- and the OCR is high quality; tagged; and is easy to search or browse. However, there is no advanced search function (though you can use Boolean operators such as AND and NOT). While you can use the Trove-style filters to narrow a keyword search down to a decade of interest, you can't zoom into a year, let alone a month, week or day. There doesn't seem to be any easy way...
...or hostels (I think!), but would probably prefer hotels if I can afford it -- which I probably can't, but anyway I can worry about that later. As for what I'd like to see: well, British history-type stuff obviously. Military history, planes, all that good stuff -- yes of course. But I can get a lot of that in and around London. I love museums and the like; picturesque country landscapes are nice but we have some of that here, so that's less of a p...
...Unfortunately for my purposes, all of them are American or monthly or both -- well, okay, these are interesting and useful too, but they don't fit into my list. But UNZ.org does have several British literary journals from the early twentieth century: Cyril Connolly's Horizon, F. R. Leavis's Scrutiny, and The Bookman (though this was a Hodder and Staughton publication, it published general reviews and cultural commentary too). For example, here's G...
...by chance! It's quite a striking -- though incongruous, amid all the green -- statue, though the photo probably exaggerates the size of it. Also in the same gardens is the memorial to Arthur Sullivan -- as in Gilbert and Sullivan. Given his numerous love affairs, the form of the memorial seems most appropriate! I wonder whether that was intentional? Not that the Victorians and Edwardians (Sullivan died in 1900) were as buttoned-down as they are po...
