10 years

10 years, Books, Thesis

Airminded: the PhD thesis

So, after a month of reposts, my celebration of Airminded’s 10th anniversary is nearly over. All that remains is the surprise which I promised, which is (no surprise!) the PhD thesis I submitted way back in 2009, for which I was subsequently awarded my PhD — after all, Airminded began life as a PhD blog. […]

10 years

Repost: Secret Zeppelin bases in Britain — I

[Part of a celebration of Airminded’s 10th anniversary; originally posted on 6 September 2014. The start of my investigation into rumours of, well, secret Zeppelin bases in Britain in 1914, which continued here and here, and concluded here. And will eventually be published somewhere.] On ABC New England last week I briefly mentioned rumours of

10 years

Repost: The aerial theatre

[Part of a celebration of Airminded’s 10th anniversary; originally posted on 1 March 2014. This was an initial roughing out of an idea for my next big research project, which hasn’t quite happened because I’ve been distracted by other things and haven’t got any funding yet. But I still hope to pursue it in some

10 years

Repost: The first death of Roland Garros

[Part of a celebration of Airminded’s 10th anniversary; originally posted on 15 May 2013. I’ve come up with some absolutely terrible titles for Airminded posts, but I like this one very much.] Roland Garros is today mainly known for having given his name to the home of French tennis. But long before then he was

RAF recruiting poster
10 years

Repost: On ‘the Few’

[Part of a celebration of Airminded’s 10th anniversary; originally posted on 31 August 2011. This is one of a number of posts from Airminded’s 7th year making an interesting or original point which probably deserve a wider audience somehow, but which either fall a bit outside my comfort zone or aren’t quite big enough for

Rutland Reindeer
10 years

Repost: The medium and the engineer

[Part of a celebration of Airminded’s 10th anniversary; originally posted on 3 March 2011. Sometimes, blogging takes time. Which reminds me, there are at least two posts I need to finish writing… one day.] A recent comment by J Campbell raised the question of whether Nevil Shute’s 1949 novel No Highway was in fact a

460 Squadron RAAF, 8 December 1944
10 years

Repost: Australia forgets

[Part of a celebration of Airminded’s 10th anniversary; originally posted on 25 April 2010. My first substantial, and I think still my most effective, critique of Anzac.] It’s Anzac Day once again. On Anzac Day, Australia remembers some things but forgets others. We remember the sacrifices of the original Anzacs at Gallipoli, but forget that

BRITISH MOVES IN THE CZECH CRISIS / Ministers to Meet To-morrow / BERLIN AMBASSADOR CALLED TO LONDON / Lord Runciman sees Henlein. Manchester Guardian, 29 August 1938, p. 9
10 years

Repost: Monday, 29 August 1938

[Part of a celebration of Airminded’s 10th anniversary; originally posted on 29 August 2008. This is the first post of my day-by-day blogging — postblogging — of the Sudeten (or Munich) crisis; the others can be found here. I was briefly a pioneer of this kind of thing, but it’s a pretty obvious idea which

10 years

Repost: The expected holocaust

[Part of a celebration of Airminded’s 10th anniversary; originally posted on 17 May 2008. I reuse these visualisations of the Blitz and the knock-out blow from the air, especially the second one, all the time — they’re in my book and just this week I showed them in a lecture and a conference paper. So

10 years

Repost: The Scareship Age

[Part of a celebration of Airminded’s 10th anniversary; originally posted on 22 December 2006. My first attempt to set out a scholarly justification of my fascination with mystery aircraft.] On the night of 23 March 1909, a police constable named Kettle saw a most unusual thing: ‘a strange, cigar-shaped craft passing over the city’1 of

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