Sunday, 15 September 1940
If it’s Sunday, this must be the Observer. Here are all the headlines from the main news page, page 7.
1940s, Ephemera, Maps, Periodicals, Pictures, Post-blogging 1940-2
Maps
1940s, Maps, Periodicals, Pictures, Post-blogging 1940-2
Sunday, 1 September 1940
The New Statesman was a little off in its belief that the Germans have given up ‘blitzkrieg’ tactics, as yesterday they renewed their heavy daylight assaults against RAF aerodromes. According to the Observer (above, 7) they also targeted ‘women shoppers’ in two places near or in London. On page 8, there’s a handy map to
1910s, Maps, Plots and tables
Finding the target
View Zeppelins over London in a larger map Last year, Londonist gave us a very nifty map of London’s V2 impact sites. Now they’ve come up with an equivalent for Zeppelin raids. Each of the sunbursts represents a bombfall. Clicking on them brings up a popup with information about the site and casualties (but, annoyingly,
1910s, 1930s, Maps, Pictures
61-67 Warrington Crescent, 8 March 1918
This is Warrington Crescent, Maida Vale, on the morning of 8 March 1918, after it had been hit by a 1-ton bomb dropped by a Giant bomber the night before — one of the largest to fall on London during the First World War and the most materially destructive. Twelve people were killed (including Lena
1900s, Books, Maps, Periodicals, Pictures
The invasion of The Invasion of 1910
William le Queux‘s The Invasion of 1910 is today one of the best-remembered of the Edwardian invasion novels (at least to anyone interested in the topic). Not because of any literary value — very few people read it today, and I can’t blame them — but because of its contemporary success. It was commissioned by
1940s, Art, Australia, Maps, Periodicals, Pictures
Why we fought?
The editorial cartoon from the Melbourne Argus of 9 December 1941, the issue which reported the Japanese landings in Malaya and air raid on Pearl Harbor. I guess it’s nice to know I can still be surprised, though, of course, there’s really no reason why I should have been.
1910s, Air defence, Books, Civil defence, Maps, Pictures
PB and C3I
Noel Pemberton Billing has received a bit of criticism around here, and mostly for good reason. He couldn’t design a decent aeroplane for toffee, he peddled lurid conspiracy theories, he was a relentless self-promoter. But I don’t think he was a complete fool. He clearly had a fertile imagination (overly so, Maud Allen would have
1900s, 1920s, After 1950, Before 1900, Maps, Pictures, Space, Tools and methods
The canals of Mars, 1962
[Cross-posted at Cliopatria.] Via Bad Astronomy comes news of an update to the Mars component of Google Earth. Most interesting to me are the overlays of historical maps of Mars from the 19th and 20th centuries, including those made by Giovanni Schiaparelli (1890), Percival Lowell (1896) and E. M. Antoniadi (1909). Schiaparelli and Lowell’s maps
1910s, Art, Australia, Maps
Down under up over
View Larger Map It’s Australia Day today, so here’s a map of the land down under, appropriately enough upside down. But the map itself is on a hillside in a land up over — near Compton Chamberlayne in Wiltshire to be precise. It was carved from the chalk downs in 1916 or 1917 by Australian
1940s, Maps, Plots and tables
Where the rockets fell
View Larger Map Via Northwest History, Londonist has started plotting London’s V2 strikes in Google Maps. Where available, the pop-up has the date, casualties, photos and links. It’s incomplete, but updates are promised. See also the Flickr set of LCC bomb damage maps on which it is based, and a tool to find the five