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Graphic, 24 April 1915, 518
1910s, Art, Books, Home Fires Burning, Periodicals, Pictures, Publications

Book contract: Home Fires Burning

I am delighted to announce that I have signed an advance contract with Cambridge University Press((Founded in 1534. Just sayin’…)) to publish my next book, currently entitled Home Fires Burning: Emotion, Spectacle, and Britain’s First War from the Air, in their Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare series. Here’s a one […]

Duprée and Ashley, Britannia Must Rule the Air
1910s, Archives, Art, Film, Music, Periodicals, Phantom airships, mystery aeroplanes, and other panics, Pictures, Videos

Britannia must rule the air!

This stirring scene is the cover for the sheet music for a song published in 1913, Britannia Must Rule the Air, written by Frank Duprée and composed by Charles Ashley. It shows a reasonable (if stubby) approximation of a Zeppelin in the process of being destroyed by gunfire from two aeroplanes, a Farman-type biplane and

1930s, Art, Periodicals, Pictures

Modern wonders — I

For nearly four years from May 1937, Modern Wonder (Modern World from March 1940) was a British weekly magazine, priced at 2d. and aimed at, presumably, boys and young men who were interested in high technology, big machines and vehicles that go really, really fast — sometimes fantastical, but mostly real, if on or near

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