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Hendon, 1920-37

Royal Air Force Display (Hendon) set-pieces:

  • 1920: none
  • 1921: village
  • 1922: fortress
  • 1923: bridge
  • 1924: commerce raider
  • 1925: commerce raider
  • 1926: aerodrome
  • 1927: town
  • 1928: oil refinery
  • 1929: port
  • 1930: plantation
  • 1931: siege gun
  • 1932: aerodrome
  • 1933: submarine base (planned)
  • 1934: magazine
  • 1935: none
  • 1936: power station
  • 1937: port

air-minded, adj.

interested in or enthusiastic for the use and development of aircraft (Oxford English Dictionary)

Airminded is the research blog of Dr Brett Holman, a historian from Melbourne, Australia.

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Buy my book The Next War in the Air: Britain's Fear of the Bomber, 1908-1941 (Ashgate, 2014; Routledge, 2017) in hardcover, paperback or ebook format.

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Recent comments

  • Rony Ross

     on A tall tale of Big BenI have a book published in Israel in 1961. It is a collection of non-fiction spy-related short stories, originally featured

  • Nick Beale

     on What I did in my holidays (research/sightseeing)I came across the Farringdon plaque on my way to a work meeting in London once. It wasn't called Zeppelin

  • UFO curious

     on Goodbye, Zeta ReticuliPearse used the 19th edition of Norton’s Star Atlas, apparently: https://www.academia.edu/54662948/Hill_Wilson_Statistical_Analysis_1

  • Matt Willis

     on Modern wonders — IFound it! Here's the photo of the Battle (probably K7558) that the 9 Oct 1937 cover was based on https://navalairhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/k7558_staniland2.jpg

  • Matt Willis

     on Modern wonders — II think the 'Air Thrills' cover is actually a Battle rather than a P.4/34 - in fact I believe it

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No longer also blogging at

  • Cliopatria (defunct)
  • Revise and Dissent (defunct)
  • Society for Military History Blog (defunct)

In Australia

  • Space Age Archaeology
  • the tiger's mouth

On Britain

  • Antiquarian’s Attic
  • David Edgerton
  • Early Modern Notes
  • Edwardian Promenade
  • Hatful of History
  • Quad Royal
  • The Little Professor
  • Wynken de Worde

On aviation

  • A Year of Aviation Illustration & Art
  • Airplay
  • AirSpace
  • From Balloons to Drones
  • Hush-Kit
  • Naval Air History
  • Vintage Aero Writer
  • x planes

A world at war

  • ATOMIC-ANNIHILATION
  • Australian War Memorial
  • Automatic Ballpoint
  • Bench Grass
  • Blog Them Out of the Stone Age
  • Civil War Memory
  • Daly History Blog
  • Great War Fiction
  • Historical Perspectives
  • How it really was
  • Imperial War Museum
  • Landskip
  • PillBlogs
  • Restricted Data
  • Stoneman's Corner
  • The Invasion Network
  • War and Security

Digital scholars

  • Dan Cohen's Digital Humanities Blog
  • Found History
  • Northwest History
  • Tim Sherratt

Other blogs of note

  • A Blast from the Past
  • Beachcombing's Bizarre History Blog
  • Butterflies and Wheels
  • Centauri Dreams
  • Chapati Mystery
  • Corey Robin
  • Crooked Timber
  • Easily Distracted
  • Executed Today
  • Frog in a Well
  • geographical imaginations
  • History of Knowledge
  • History Unfolding
  • In the Middle
  • Kafka's Mouse
  • Lawyers, Guns and Money
  • Paleofuture
  • Ph.D. Octopus
  • Philobiblon
  • Play the Past
  • Ptak Science Books
  • Ragesoss
  • Steamboats Are Ruining Everything
  • Strange Maps
  • Tenured Radical
  • The Edge of the American West
  • The Renaissance Mathematicus
  • U.S. Intellectual History

More history

  • AcademicBlogs: History
  • Australian Historical Association
  • Cliopatria's History Blogroll
  • History Journal Response Times

See also

  • Academia.edu
  • Bluesky
  • GitHub
  • Google Scholar Citations
  • Heritage of the Air
  • Humanities Commons
  • Mastodon
  • ORCID
  • Scopus
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