Phallic symbol envy
Source: Review of Reviews for Australasia, May 1913, 248 (link; presumably originally from a British publication).
1910s, Aircraft, Art, Australia, Periodicals, Pictures
Australia
Australia, Periodicals, Publications
Melbourne Historical Journal 36
Earlier this year, I mentioned that I had joined the editorial collective of Melbourne Historical Journal. Well, against all odds (or so it seemed at times!) we produced what I think is a pretty good issue. Lynette Russell graciously launched it this evening at the Re-orienting Whiteness conference, and it’s now available for purchase. (Or
1930s, Australia, Contemporary, Ephemera, Film, Pictures
Howard Hawks at Melbourne Cinémathèque
This post will only be of interest to Melbourne readers. Melbourne Cinémathèque is holding a season of 1930s Howard Hawks films this month, including three of his aviation classics: Only Angels Have Wings, Ceiling Zero (both on Wednesday, 3 December) and The Dawn Patrol (Wednesday, 17 December). They’re showing at ACMI. I don’t think I’ve
1930s, Australia, Civil defence, Periodicals, Pictures, Post-blogging the Sudeten crisis
Saturday, 17 September 1938
Once again, the Daily Mail has big news (p. 9) that The Times and Manchester Guardian aren’t carrying (they merely have rather anodyne reports that Chamberlain has returned and has been meeting with colleagues); again I suspect it’s because we’re looking at an afternoon edition. The banner headline is truncated above, so here’s the full
Australia, Contemporary
David Philips, 1946-2008
As Chris noted here the other day, David Philips died recently. David was a recently retired associate professor in the School of Historical Studies at the University of Melbourne, where he taught for three decades, and had an international reputation in the study of crime and policing in 19th century Britain and the comparative study
After 1950, Australia, Cold War, Film, Games and simulations, Maps, Nuclear, biological, chemical, Pictures
A strange game
This week is the 25th anniversary of the Australian cinematic release of WarGames, which is mainly significant because I missed the anniversary of the US release a few weeks ago! There were a few retrospectives floating about then, which focused on the movie’s importance as an early popularisation of the hacking and phreaking subcultures, and
Australia, Periodicals, Tools and methods
Australian Newspapers Beta
Recently, the National Library of Australia opened up Australian Newspapers Beta to the public, free of charge (though whether free as in speech or free as in beer is unclear). This is part of the Australian Newspapers Digitisation Program and promises to be a fantastic resource. They are digitising newspapers from every state from 1803
1930s, Aircraft, Australia, Civil aviation, Conferences and talks, Pictures
Some Tante Jus and a conference report
Here are a couple of photos I used in my AHA talk last week: This is a Lufthansa Ju 52/3m, one of the great airliners of the 1930s, at Croydon aerodrome, ca. 1936. Other operators included Swissair, Aeroflot, and British Airways (an ancestor of the current airline of the same name).
Academia, Australia, Periodicals
Egregious ranking analysis?
[Cross-posted at Revise and Dissent.] The Research Quality Framework (RQF) was a proposal by the previous Australian federal government to introduce a set of metrics by which the research output of university departments can be measured. Something like the Research Assessment Exercise in Britain, certainly in principle (I don’t know enough about either to say
1940s, Aircraft, Australia, Civil aviation, Contemporary, Film, Pictures
No Strzelecki
Director Baz Luhrmann (Strictly Ballroom, Moulin Rouge) has been working on a new film, called Australia. As the name perhaps suggests, it’s a sweeping saga of this wide, brown land of ours: the men who conquered it, the women who loved them, the cattle, the dust, the flies … well, it sounds pretty dull to