Acquisitions
Jan Rüger. The Great Naval Game: Britain and Germany in the Age of Empire. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. A book I cited in my thesis. I don’t see why the library should have all the fun.
Acquisitions, Books
1930s, Air defence, Aircraft, Art, Books, Pictures
War is cute
I’ve previously posted some of Gorden Cullen’s artwork for the Tecton Group’s 1939 book Planned A.R.P.. Here are some more of his cute drawings dealing with an awful subject. In this case, he is illustrating the ‘general agreement among experts’ on the threat posed by the bomber. (a) The range, speed, and carrying capacity of
Acquisitions, Books
Acquisitions
Charles Sowerwine. France Since 1870: Culture, Society and the Making of the Republic. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. Second Edition. French history is one of my weak points. If I’d taken one of Chips’ classes — he retired from my former department a few years ago — I might not have needed to buy his book.
1940s, Books, Cold War, Nuclear, biological, chemical
Bomber Harris, bomber sceptic
One sub-species of military intellectual is the retired field marshal (or admiral, or air marshal) who, at the end of a long career, sets down their thoughts on the future of warfare for the interested reader. Even though they may be quite famous, their essays into futurism are nowadays read less often than that of
Before 1900, Other, Thesis, Tools and methods
Aweſomeneſs
A tweet from William J. Turkel alerted me to the possibility of using 18th century-style fonts in LaTeX. The most noticeable difference from modern typesetting is the long s, but there are different ligatures too. There are a number of ways to do it but the easiest way is with the inbuilt Kepler Fonts package.
Blogging, tweeting and podcasting, Pictures
Friday, 19 November 2010
Airminded has been archived by the British Library’s UK Web Archive, which ‘contains websites that publish research, that reflect the diversity of lives, interests and activities throughout the UK, and demonstrate web innovation’. It’s one of (at present) 487 blogs, 461 history websites, and 47 international relations, diplomacy and peace websites thus indexed. As you
Acquisitions, Books
Acquisitions
As I said… I went back for more Shute! Neville Shute. No Highway. London: Vintage Books, 2009 [1948]. Not about the Comet and its metal-fatigue induced accidents, because it was written before the prototype even flew. Neville Shute. Pastoral. London: Vintage Books, 2009 [1944]. A Bomber Command romance.
1940s, Books, Counterfactuals, Periodicals, Radio, Reprisals
You have no chance
The title of this post is something which Air Marshal Sir Arthur Harris did not say. There are an uncountable infinity of things Harris didn’t say, but this particular one is of interest because during the Second World War it was widely believed that he did say it, and was taken to represent his aims
Acquisitions, Books
Acquisitions
I went on a mini-spending spree this week — mini because Vintage have recently cut their prices in Australia and are cheap as chips. Graham Greene. Brighton Rock. London: Vintage Books, 2004 [1938]. ‘Now a major motion picture’. Aldous Huxley. Ape and Essence. London: Vintage Books, 2005 [1949]. I couldn’t resist this after reading the
1930s, 1940s, Books, Periodicals, Pictures
Biggles, Captain Zoom, and Britain’s peril
In Culture in Camouflage: War, Empire, and Modern British Literature (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009), Patrick Deer discusses airminded fiction for boys from the 1930s and suggests that (78): In their own cheery way, these boys’ flying stories echo the mythos of the flying übermenschen so dear to the fascist imagination. In their patriotic exuberance,