...first in Prospect Village, then in Willunga. South Australia was itself only founded in 1836; so we were there pretty early. It attracted many Cornish emigrants, not only for the economic opportunities (later, especially due to copper strikes) but because of its freedom. Firstly, it was not a penal colony, so it was free of the convict stain. Secondly, it had no state religion, and indeed welcomed Nonconformists. Cornwall was a Methodist strongho...
...nd so on. But America entered the war as a fresh force; and its army had only recently become seriously engaged in combat by the time of the Armistice. So even though it had its own learning curve to follow, it had no time to become embittered with the apparent fruitlessness of military technology. Space. Britain is both geographically smaller than the United States, and closer to its neighbours (in terms of the distance between population centres...
...of Edinburgh. Unfortunately it can be, like many parts of Scotland, slightly chilly, in terms of both climate and welcome (but not violent in the centre of the town, which is why students can happily stagger around the closes late at night). I'd probably be itching to get on to Rome if I knew that was next on my agenda. But I'm glad you got to Auld Reekie and found the castle, etc interesting. I hope someone taught you how to pronounce Buccleuch?...
...r Hamstead or neither? Brett Holman A good place to look would be the Monthly Air Force List (usually just called Air Force List) for October 1918. I've got a partial copy of the one for December 1918 but not the pages covering hospitals, unfortunately. However, I note that while the January 1922 issue has the Central RAF Hospital at Finchley, the Central Medical Board was then at Holly Hill, Hampstead. So that suggests a medical connection; maybe...
...source for RAAF history like this. http://airpower.airforce.gov.au/ Probably a bit mysterious without context, but at a quick look "#54 Air Power in Defence of Australia – Early Thoughts "; "#101 Flying Safety: The RAAF Record"; "#56 “N.Z.3” – First Joint Exercise for the RAAF" all flesh out aspects of the pre-W.W.II RAAF. http://airpower.airforce.gov.au/Publications/List/41/Pathfinder.aspx They also publish the book 'How not to run an air force'...
...ee here (with pictures!) and here.) OK, but just what is LaTeX? It's actually not strictly comparable to Word, because it's not a word processor: it's essentially a markup language, like HTML. So for example, in HTML the first sentence in this paragraph would be written like this: OK, but just what <b>is</b> LaTeX? In LaTeX, the equivalent is: OK, but just what \textbf{is} LaTeX? And so on. Then you run 'latex' on the document in order to produce...
...t. My tentative conclusion at the moment is that the photo in question is genuine, but I admit the missing north terrace roof at the Den is troubling. What a long, strange trip it's been. Well, a long one, anyway. I certainly lack that strength -- I originally put the post up without a picture, then quickly decided it needed one after all, and as I was in a hurry I immediately thought of 'that one with the Heinkel flying over London'! [↩]...
...modelled after those of Constantinople. So it's easy to see why Madog ap Llywelyn's forces struck here, during the revolt of 1294-5. And the castle and the town walls were only half-finished; there would be no better chance to take it. Which they did in 1294, burning much of the town as well. The English army recaptured it the following summer, and construction work continued for another generation. In fact, it was never completely finished -- th...
...e way to Wood and did not make his speech in the House. But that's not the bit about private property. That's this bit: I told Leo Amery of my brush with Kingsley Wood and he gave me an account of his own experience with the Air Minister which threw a really astounding light on the mentality of Munichers at war. Amery knew the Black Forest and was well aware that that vast wooded area was packed full of munitions and warlike stores. He suggested t...
...all 1113 pages of it! This gave me the idea to post-blog the panic, but a bit differently: by focusing on the evolution of the archival record, rather than the press one. It will still be in real time, that is I will post about events exactly a century after they happened, but instead of the 'events' being the publication of a newspaper article, it will be the creation of an archived document. How (or whether) this will work exactly remains to be...
