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• The international air force and the Inner Government of the World

  22 February 2012 in 1920s, 1930s, Books, International air force, Periodicals

  Here's something I didn't know before. In 1939, an Indian chemistry professor and Theosophist named D. D. Kanga edited a collection of articles entitled Where Theosophy and Science Meet: A Stimulus to Modern Thought.1 One of the articles was by Peter Freeman, who had been a Labour MP from Wales between 1929 and 1931 (and [...]

• Self-archive: 'World police for world peace'

  16 February 2012 in Blogging and tweeting, International air force, Periodicals, Publications

  A comment by Gavin Robinson over at Thoughts on Military History reminded me that I've been a bit slack with self-archiving. This is the policy some academic journals have which allows authors to upload copies of their articles to their own websites, with certain caveats. For SAGE journals the policy is that you can At [...]

• Am I fake or not? -- III

  15 February 2012 in 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, Aircraft, Blogging and tweeting, Books, Periodicals, Pictures

  N. A. J. Taylor recently asked me on Twitter if I thought the above photograph, purportedly of one of the daylight Gotha raids on London in 1917, was genuine. I said no, due to 'Experience, intuition, lack of provenance, contemporary photographic technology. The photo has been retouched at very least.' But I'm coming around to [...]

• The doom of cities

  8 February 2012 in 1930s, Art, Books, Civil defence, Nuclear, biological, chemical, Periodicals, Pictures

  RAIN OF BOMBS Milan's wonderful cathedral is here shown under a rain of dummy bombs dropped by 80 aeroplanes during recent manoeuvres of the Italians. To make the display more impressive and to ascertain the results with more certainty, luminous "bombs" were used and fell in a fiery rain upon the city -- a dire [...]

• Acquisitions

  3 February 2012 in Acquisitions, Books

  Ronnie Scott, ed. The Real 'Dad's Army': The War Diaries of Col. Rodney Foster. London: Virago, 2011. Foster was a retired Indian Army officer who commanded a Home Guard company in Kent in the Second World War. Looks interesting: takes a lively interest in the progress of the war, but is also engaged with his [...]