Fame! Fortune! Tenure!
… are all very far away. But for now, there’s a nice write-up by Emma McFarnon of my commercial bomber research in the news section of History Extra, the website for BBC History Magazine.
… are all very far away. But for now, there’s a nice write-up by Emma McFarnon of my commercial bomber research in the news section of History Extra, the website for BBC History Magazine.
There’s been a huge amount of interest on Twitter and in the media about the new Bomb Sight website, developed by the University of Portsmouth with assistance from the National Archives and elsewhere, and deservedly so because it’s fairly excellent. In short it’s an interactive map of the London Blitz compiled from a number of
The Open University’s Chris A. Williams (who should be confused with the Chris Williams who comments here frequently, since they are the same person) has done a good thing by developing a nifty online simulation called Beat the Ministry, to accompany a joint OU/BBC television series — on which Chris is lead academic consultant —
This image and the one below are selections from the The National Archives’ collaboration with Wikimedia Commons, so far comprising 350 examples of war art from the Second World War. These particular ones are propaganda posters (or draft versions of same) but there are also more informational ones as well as portraits and caricatures of
Shirley Jacobs writes to inform me that the W E Johns Appreciation Society now has a website. It’s clearly quite an active group — there’s a magazine, Biggles Flies Again, published twice a year, and regular meetings with the next in Derby on 24 October. Via the site, one can keep up with W. E.
Chris Williams (AKA Chris A. Williams) has put online a recording of a lecture he gave last year about the evolution of the police C3I system, by way of train control and air defence. (See also here.) More like this, please!
Last year I was interviewed by Dan Vergano, science reporter for USA Today, for an article he was writing for Air & Space/Smithsonian magazine on the 1909 phantom airship wave. It’s finally been published, in the July 2009 issue, and can also be read online. It’s a lively and engaging overview of the episode, and
[Cross-posted at Cliopatria.] Recently, I followed Gavin Robinson’s lead and tried out the British Library’s EThOS beta. EThOS stands for Electronic Theses (dissertations) Online Service, and it’s just what you’d expect from that — an electronic thesis delivery service. There’s not too much new about that, but EThOS does have some very impressive features. First
It seems like forever since the last one, but it’s only been two months. The (16th) Military History Carnival has been posted at the Osprey Blog. A few present-day items seem to have snuck in, but there’s still plenty of history in there. My selection this time is about Burlington, at Underground, a rather beautiful
Recently I’ve come across a number of really good websites about the Blitz. Oddly, none of them are about London, but instead are about the experience of some of Britain’s other blitzed cities. Maybe London is just too big a subject, and the smaller scale of the regional blitzes is more congenial to thorough exploration.