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Scareships, 1909

Series introduction

Week 1
Friday, 14 May 1909
Saturday, 15 May 1909

Week 2
Monday, 17 May 1909
Tuesday, 18 May 1909
Wednesday, 19 May 1909
Thursday, 20 May 1909
Friday, 21 May 1909
Saturday, 22 May 1909

Week 3
Monday, 24 May 1909
Tuesday, 25 May 1909
Wednesday, 26 May 1909
Thursday, 27 May 1909
Friday, 28 May 1909
Saturday, 29 May 1909

Week 4
Monday, 31 May 1909
Tuesday, 1 June 1909
Wednesday, 2 June 1909

Series conclusion

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air-minded, adj.

interested in or enthusiastic for the use and development of aircraft (Oxford English Dictionary)

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Airminded is the research blog of Brett Holman, an historian living in Melbourne, Australia.

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    20 November 2009 in 1930s, Aircraft, Periodicals, Quotes

    In June 1935, the Daily Express ran a story about three ’secret British air devices’. The source was a story in the Chicago Tribune by that paper’s London correspondent, John Steele:
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  • The superweapon and the Anglo-American imagination — I

    17 November 2009 in 1940s, Periodicals, Pictures, Quotes

    Do these photos, taken early in the Battle of Britain, show a British mystery weapon? (I could just say “no”, but that wouldn’t be very interesting, would it.)

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  • Tremayne and Crowan

    12 November 2009 in Family history, Pictures, Travel 2009

    This post relates to my trip to England and Wales in September 2009.

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  • The mystery car of Maldon

    7 November 2009 in 1910s, Civil defence, Periodicals, Phantom airships and other panics, Quotes, Rumours

    Here’s an interesting inversion of my usual phantom airship scare. The Zeppelin was real enough — it was L6, raiding Essex on the night of 15 April 1915. The phantom was instead a motor-car:
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    6 November 2009 in Acquisitions, Books

    Christopher Andrew. The Defence of the Realm: The Authorized History of MI5. London: Allen Lane, 2009. Most valuable for me on the Edwardian spy mania, but looks like a fun read for the rest of the thousand-odd pages.
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