After 1950

Major Kong
Aerial theatre, After 1950, Music, Pictures, Television, Videos

US AF

What could be more American than football, cheerleaders, and country music? According to Hank Williams Jr in 1989 [edit: more like 1996 — thanks, Robert Farley], only football, cheerleaders, country music, and air strikes on US national monuments (which magically transform them into symbols associated with football):

War Savings Certificates leaflet
1940s, Aerial theatre, After 1950, Books, Ephemera, Nuclear, biological, chemical, Periodicals

This might have been a bomb

A bit of aerial theatre from Dan Todman’s (excellent) Britain’s War: Into Battle, 1937-1941: Newton Abbot, Devon, February 1941. The town is holding its War Weapons Week to promote the National Savings movement. It has been set the aim of increasing savings by £100,000 during seven days. To publicize the event, local organizers arrange a

Sputnik I
After 1950, Cold War, Conferences and talks, Nuclear, biological, chemical, Phantom airships, mystery aeroplanes, and other panics, Pictures, Radio, Sounds, Space, Turning points in history

Turning points: Sputnik

After taking some time to recover after the marathon Road to War, I’m taking part in a new series of talks with ABC New England North West‘s Kelly Fuller, along with fellow members of the UNE School of Humanities Nathan Wise (who came up with the concept), Sarah Lawrence and Richard Scully (and more, if

1900s, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, Academia, Aerial theatre, After 1950, Books, Grants, Phantom airships, mystery aeroplanes, and other panics

Course correction

With my book’s publication imminent and my return to the job market beginning to, if not loom, then at least creep up, it’s time to think about what’s next in terms of a research programme. I had been thinking of something to do with mystery aircraft, and indeed my next small research project, on scares

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