Acquisitions
Jonathan Foster. The Death Ray: The Secret Life of Harry Grindell Matthews. Inventive Publishing, 2009. As seen here. Another find in a Welsh museum bookshop — I should go to Wales more often!
Acquisitions, Books
September 2009
Acquisitions, Books
Acquisitions
Peter London. U-Boat Hunters: Cornwall’s Air War, 1916-19. Truro: Dyllansow Truran, 1999. RNAS airship and aeroplane anti-submarine operations: some success under pretty trying conditions. Richard Overy. 1939: Countdown to War. London: Allen Lane, 2009. I’ve now met the author! Robert Stradling. Your Children Will Be Next: Bombing and Propaganda in the Spanish Civil War 1936-1939.
Travel 2009
For London direct
I’m flying out today for London, and from there to Exeter, Truro, Cardiff, Conwy, Leicester and then London again. I’ll probably have internet access most of the time but blog updates will no doubt become more irregular. I hope to meet some of my readers while in Blighty, especially those who have promised me pints!
1910s, 1920s, Art, Australia, Pictures
Not all of me shall die
I recently attended a function in the Gryphon Gallery of the 1888 Building at the University of Melbourne, where there’s a local war memorial I missed out on when I last wrote on the topic. It was dedicated in 1920 in what was then the Teachers’ College, and takes the form of three stained glass
1930s, Civil defence, Radio, Sounds
The balloon goes up
It’s seventy years today since Britain and France declared war on Germany. At 11.15am on Sunday 3 September 1939, Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain spoke to the nation via the BBC. At 11.28am, less than a quarter of an hour later, air raid sirens went off in London and (at differing times) across much of the
Aircraft, Australia, Pictures
An airminded surprise
While walking home tonight I saw something unexpected.