The year of reading airmindedly — XVI
For the last (?) time: all RAAF, all the time; from Bristol Fighters through Sunderlands and Sabres to Super Hornets.
Books, Pictures, Reviews
Blogging, tweeting and podcasting, Pictures
It’s over
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
Books, Pictures, Reviews
The year of reading airmindedly — XV
A mixed bag as the end of the year of reading airmindedly approaches. (I think there’ll be one more edition, though.)
1920s, 1930s, Aerial theatre, Pictures, Publications
Self-archive: ‘Spectre and spectacle’
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
Books, Pictures, Reviews
The year of reading airmindedly — XIV
American airpower; Australian air force; all airlines.
Art, Pictures
After Guernica
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
Books, Pictures, Reviews
The year of reading airmindedly — XIII
There’s very little linking these three books, except perhaps that they all reflect, in very different ways, the long drawdown of British power.
1910s, Ephemera, Periodicals, Pictures, Rumours
Queer letters and alien hands
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
Books, Pictures, Reviews
The year of reading airmindedly — XII
There’s something for everyone here, from low-tech flying replicas to hi-tech death from the skies!
Academia, Australia, Contemporary, Pictures
Why I’m striking #UnimelbStrikes
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?