UPDATED 18 NOVEMBER 2024 After 14 years and 7 months, I’ve deleted all of my Twitter/X accounts. The best place to find me now (other than here!) is Bluesky: But you can also find me on Mastodon: NB: the code for my bots can be found on Github: trovebot-mastodon2 and ttaships. Twitter has been both […]
A mixed bag as the end of the year of reading airmindedly approaches. (I think there’ll be one more edition, though.)
After thirty-six (!) months, ‘Spectre and spectacle: mock air raids as aerial theatre in interwar Britain’, my chapter in Michael McCluskey and Luke Seaber, eds., Aviation in the Literature and Culture of Interwar Britain, is now available for a free download under green open access (in this case, pre-copy editing). Here’s the abstract: You can
American airpower; Australian air force; all airlines.
The world is a bad place right now, and a lot of that has to do with bombing civilians. And it’s impossible for me to look at the news from Gaza, or from Ukraine, and not think of my own current book project on the bombing of British civilians in the First World War. But
There’s very little linking these three books, except perhaps that they all reflect, in very different ways, the long drawdown of British power.
The above facsimile letter was published in the Ramsgate Thanet Advertiser on 29 April 1916. It reads: April 7th. The writer of the first ‘German messages’ has been absent from Ramsgate some time now, so the ‘Alien’s post-card’ is by another hand. If I did not fear prosecution for “failing to register an alien,” I
There’s something for everyone here, from low-tech flying replicas to hi-tech death from the skies!
I currently have a part-time contract at the University of Melbourne in a non-academic, communications role. I feel that my work is valued and that I am supported by my unit and my managers. Nevertheless, I’m on strike. Why?
On 14 October, Australians will be voting in a referendum on the following question: A Proposed Law: to alter the Constitution to recognise the First Peoples of Australia by establishing an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice. Do you approve this proposed alteration? The proposed alteration is: I’ll be voting yes. Here’s why.
