1930s

1910s, 1920s, 1930s, Aerial theatre, Australia, Publications

Publication: ‘The militarisation of aerial theatre’

My article, ‘The militarisation of aerial theatre: air displays and airmindedness in Britain and Australia between the World Wars’, is available on Contempory British History‘s website. It seems like only yesterday that I uploaded the self-archived version — in fact it was only 5 weeks ago! While the formal and final version of the article

1910s, 1920s, 1930s, Aerial theatre, Australia, Periodicals, Publications

Self-archive: ‘The militarisation of aerial theatre’

My article, ‘The militarisation of aerial theatre: air displays and airmindedness in Britain and Australia between the World Wars’, has just been accepted for publication in Contemporary British History. It will be part of a special issue edited by Andrekos Varnava and Michael J. K. Walsh on ‘The production of popular culture and its relationship

Dare-Devil Aces, November 1937
1920s, 1930s, 1940s, Art, Periodicals, Pictures

Pulp aviation

This is the cover of the November 1937 issue of an American pulp magazine called Dare-Devil Aces. I vaguely knew about the existence of these aviation adventure magazines, or air pulps, but I’d assumed they were filled with stories of chivalric air combat of the Great War. Many undoubtedly were, but that’s not what this

1930s, 1940s, Books, Civil defence, Phantom airships, mystery aeroplanes, and other panics, Rumours

Air panics of the British Raj

As long-time (and very patient) readers of this blog will know, I am fascinated by the historical evidence for what I term air panics. Most obviously this includes phantom airship and mystery aeroplane panics, but also rearmament panics, Zeppelin base panics, red balloon panics… anything and everything which provides evidence for what the British people

1930s, Aerial theatre, Books

That’s war!

A snippet from David Hall’s Worktown, on the Mass-Observation project in Bolton, a textile town near Manchester: At 2.40 [pm] the most interesting event of the day took place. Eight aeroplanes flew over — a rare sight in Worktown, which is nowhere near a military airport and some distance from a civil one. ‘Two men

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