In July I’ll be at this year’s Australian Historical Association conference, which is being hosted in Ballarat by Federation University Australia. I’m pushing my aerial theatre project along with a talk entitled ‘The RAF versus the Wottnotts: Hendon’s imaginary wars, 1920-1937’: The Royal Air Force (RAF) Pageants held between 1920 and 1937 at Hendon in […]
I walked into the local secondhand bookshop thinking I should try to buy something to support them; and of course then walked out with an armful, including: P. M. S. Blackett. Military and Political Consequences of Atomic Energy. London: Turnstile Press, 1948. Blackett was a bit of an overachiever: the Tizard Committee, the Royal Aircraft
The following article appeared on p. 4 of the 15 June 1914 issue of the Broken Hill (NSW), newspaper, the Barrier Miner: AIRSHIPS AGAINST THE MAD MULLAH Aden, Saturday. Naval Lieutenants Boothby and Richard B. Davies are at Berbera, investigating the feasibility of utilising airships for the purpose of an expedition to subdue the Mad
Edward Bujak. Reckless Fellows: The Gentlemen of the Royal Flying Corps. London and New York: I.B. Tauris, 2015. Much of our understanding of the airmen of the First World War has been dominated by the image of the knight of the air (or debunkings thereof); there hasn’t been a lot of work done from a
