...ew Melomet The third bomb made it as far west as NAS Moffett Field in Sunnyvale, just south of San Francisco, in preparation for shipment to Tinian. Alan Allport I'd have to see some really compelling evidence to be persuaded that Tokyo would have been a third nuclear target. You give the reason yourself above; the inevitable death of the Emperor would have made any organized end to Japanese resistance almost impossible to obtain, and surely Truma...
...hat, for example, both world wars are excluded; or to take another, more local, example, the Tonypandy riots of 1910 are in but the defeat of the strikes in 1911 is out. (More selfishly, Wales played an important role in both phantom airship scares: I'll now be able to research the 1909 one in the Welsh press but not the 1913 one.) Of course, absent full and universal coverage boundary problems like this will always arise. But Welsh Newspapers Onl...
...nationalism. Needs a sequel! Fernando Esposito. Fascism, Aviation and Mythical Modernity. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. A much-needed analysis of the relationship between fascism and aviation, in both Italy and Germany (perhaps with an emphasis on the former, which is about right). Add in 'mythical modernity' and I'm sold. David Hall. Worktown: The Astonishing Story of the 1930s Project that Launched Mass-Observation. London:...
...Chowder Bay — II (0) 17 May Fiasco at Chowder Bay — I (2) 12 May Return to call of the clouds (0) 6 May Introducing @TroveAirRaidBot (1) 27 April Modern wonders — II (6) 20 April Modern wonders — I (6) 15 April Don’t let’s be beastly to the RAF — II (2) 6 April Don’t let’s be beastly to the RAF — I (2) 30 March The first kill of Nadar (0) 24 March Life during wartime (2) 16 March Aerial theatre in the time of coronavirus? (0) 24 February Partial F...
...tirely, because I was in search of my ancestors' home: a tiny little place called Tremayne, which is towards Land's End, in the hundred of Penwith. To get there I caught a train to Camborne, then a bus to Praze-an-Beeble (no, really!), and then walked along a winding country lane with no footpath and some very high hedgerows. Luckily I didn't get run over, as that would rather have spoiled what was a beautiful day. This is the turn-off into Tremay...
...e are other reasons why I'd rather avoid a webapp for such things. Jakob Healthy Caution^H^H^H^H Paranoia, Brett? Some people's todo lists can never be too secure... Todo: *Milk *Loo Roll *Make photocopies before returning library books *Steal nuclear weapon, cause panic thru fear of knock-out blow Brett Holman Well, there's a bit of that, I guess (NB. I'm not planning to steal a nuclear weapon!) though it's really just the principle that it's my...
...Australian Ballooning History, Helene Rogers suggests that there was practically no ballooning in Australia between about 1920 and the 1960s. I would suggest searching Trove Newspapers, which has a lot of newspaper articles from this period. I've had a quick look myself and can only find a few references to a vogue for small hydrogen balloons being released at school sports carnivals and the like, with a prize given for the one which went the fart...
...I've taken it off for now. Finally, I'll just mention Wikisource's 'Periodicals, General Interest' category and the serials list at the Online Books Page at the University of Pennsylvania. These collate links to some useful periodicals like Blackwood's Magazine from various sources like the Internet Archive; but due to the lack of any unified search across volumes they're not online archives in the same sense as the above. Only some are British, a...
...Air Police which turned out to be - well, I won't spoil it. It's a fantastical, but actually possible story, with some neat aviating of an unlikely kind - the best sort. Jewels, plans, information, criminals, a plastic-surgeon, and even old masters were some of the items (from memory!) being smuggled. I'm not aware if any of these equated to real-life events (beyond the example Brett's quoted) but probably not. Brett Holman Alex: Interesting. Do m...
...come across UNZ.org, which has a huge amount of early 20th century periodicals (as well as books and other things) scanned and available for free, without even any ads. ('A New, Vast and Slightly Right-Wing Archive of Magazines, Books and TV Shows' is a pretty accurate description.) It's nicely organised too; a search function would be nice but you can use Google for that. Unfortunately for my purposes, all of them are American or monthly or both...
