April 2013

1910s, Blogging, tweeting and podcasting, Periodicals, Phantom airships, mystery aeroplanes, and other panics, Post-blogging the 1913 scareships

Post-blogging the 1913 scareships: conclusion

Yesterday’s post was, thankfully, the last entry in my post-blogging of the 1913 phantom airship wave. I’ve searched the available (to me) primary sources up until the end of April 1913 and can find no further references; and Watson, Oldroyd and Clarke’s exhaustive compilation of phantom airship sightings has only 7 entries from May onwards.

1910s, Periodicals, Phantom airships, mystery aeroplanes, and other panics, Post-blogging the 1913 scareships

Saturday, 19 April 1913

The Economist follows up last week’s third leading article about the airship scare with the fourth leading article today (an extract from which also appears in the Manchester Guardian). This time around the subject is ‘THE “DAILY MAIL’S” MANSION HOUSE MEETING FOR AIRSHIPS’ (925), which is planned for 5 May and will feature speeches by

Acquisitions, Books

Acquisitions

E. H. Carr. What is History? Camberwell: Penguin Books, 2008. Second edition. What indeed? David Edgerton. England and the Aeroplane: Militarism, Modernity and Machines. London: Penguin, 2013. Second edition. England and the Aeroplane was first published in 1991 and is now a key text for understanding modern Britain’s relationship with technology in general and aviation

1910s, Periodicals, Phantom airships, mystery aeroplanes, and other panics, Post-blogging the 1913 scareships

Thursday, 17 April 1913

The Manchester Guardian reports today on Germany’s naval aviation plans, as revealed in an official memorandum recently released to the public, which it judges to be ‘important as marking the first step from tentative experiments to a period of ordered growth’ (9). An ‘explanatory statement’ is likened to ‘the famous Introduction to the Navy Bill

1910s, Periodicals, Phantom airships, mystery aeroplanes, and other panics, Post-blogging the 1913 scareships

Saturday, 12 April 1913

The third leading article in today’s Economist is entitled ‘Airship fiascos and preliminary puffs’ (p. 868). It begins by casting back to ‘A FEW weeks ago, just before and after the Army and Navy Estimates were introduced’, when ‘a section of the Press was filled with lurid accounts of the danger in which Great Britain

Acquisitions, Books

Acquisitions

Peter Gray. The Leadership, Direction and Legitimacy of the RAF Bomber Offensive from Inception to 1945. London and New York: Continuum, 2012. An interesting title, and looks like an accurate one (if an annoyingly difficult one to shorten for citations!) Gray’s background before doing his PhD (which this book is based upon) is in the

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