...pel.2 Here the argument is that Americans generally believed that aircraft -- and the new connections they would create between people and peoples -- would bring about a golden age of peace and prosperity. The same could not be said of the British (at least, not in general). Having hesitantly asserted a bold generalisation, I probably ought to try and explain it. Here are some possibilities, none of them particularly compelling: Time. The First Wo...
...me. (And John Holman's father, also named John, had a brother named James -- Jacob?) I'm going to stop there before my brain melts! After that it was back to Truro, via Tremayne, Praze and Camborne. I wish I'd been a bit better prepared -- if I had been, perhaps I would have known about the former Methodist chapel in Praze, or found the address of the Holmans (if not my Holmans) in Tremayne from the 1841 census. But it was still very evocative to...
...125lb (34% all up weight), landing speed 61mph (_Flight_, 1 March 1934, 189--91) At a very conservative consumption rating of .5 lb/hp hr, it should have had a range of 429 miles per 1000lb gasoline carried. Indeed, it was originally intended to install long-range gas tanks in the KLM DC-2 and enter the new Fokker 36 in the race to compete for the handicap prize. (_Flight_, 1 Nov 1934: this is a PDF lift, so I'll suggest searching for "Albury"). T...
...ppelin menace and the Invisible Hand’ (2) 13 December Alien airmen and will-o’-the-wisp bridges (2) 5 December The thunderclaps of August (2) 26 November It’s that quote again — V (0) 20 November It’s that quote again — IV (0) 7 November @TroveAirBot 2 (0) 26 October It’s that quote again — III (0) 24 October It’s that quote again — II (0) 1 October Anzac and Aviator (0) 28 September Self-archive: ‘The meaning of Hendon’ (0) 19 September It’s that...
...etter than the offline equivalent, the central part of the user experience -- i.e. actually looking at articles and pages -- is definitely one of the best out there, even compared with Trove. Of course you have to be concerned about copyright, and you can't do much without funding; so I'm glad that the First World War years will be coming online, and with any luck the years in between too. In any case I'm sure I'll be returning to WNO frequently!...
...ntence, I find that it really cuts against the grain to do so for academic writing. I don't think it is such a sin in writing in the humanities, but I first learned academic writing in the physical sciences, where the personal pronoun, singular or plural, is rare (though not unknown). Instead, one would use phrases like 'the present author' where in less formal writing one would say 'I'. I guess this is to avoid the academic equivalent of breaking...
...ar civil defence almost seems burgeoning compared with the WWI/WWII period -- maybe due to the lack of the deadening presence of an official history? Or maybe because of the inspiration from studies of American civil defence in the same period? George: Well, some of those I might consider taking on one day, however in general the best plan is to 1. hatch chickens; 2. count chickens ... Jakob Dr Jeff Hughes at Manchester has done stuff on Cold War...
...many of the books is interesting. The 1920s were the great days of physics -- Einstein was a worldwide celebrity because of his theory of general relativity; the cornerstones of quantum mechanics were being laid in Germany; in the United States, Hubble was showing that the Universe was far bigger than anyone had imagined. But judging from 'To-day and To-morrow', it was evolution and its implications which gripped the imagination of the reading pub...
...in another LaTeX post I wrote, about how to set up multiple bibliographies -- again, probably not something computer scientists have to do much of ... Good luck with your thesis (dissertation) too! Kim Belcher Writing your own style from scratch? That's crazy talk. I tried to edit the .bst that was available from students at my university and even that was a nightmare. No comments at all, ugh. Anyway, so your post saved me from that fate worse tha...
...e sense of the subject. Well, I'd have to say I'm mostly guilty as charged -- but I don't see what's so wrong with that! The reference is to my post on books which historians have neglected to write. Yes, I did say academic historians, but then I'm an academic in training (whether or not I ever become one), so of course my orientation is going to be towards academic works. But more than that, on the whole I do think academic histories are better t...
