[Cross-posted at Revise and Dissent.] Earlier this summer, I read several studies of national airmindedness, which inspired two previous posts. By way of a coda, here’s a reading list on airmindedness, comprising these works and others I am aware of, along with some scattered thoughts as to what it all means. Joseph J. Corn. The […]
I’ve written about connections between sport and war before. Here’s another which I came across just last night, so perfectly timed that I can’t resist posting it. It’s from a book written in October 1941 or so by the pseudonymous Auspex, who is talking here about the RAF’s sweeps over France that summer, which he
This sticker is in the back of a book published in 1940, originally part of the collection of the Public Lending Library of Victoria (itself a part of the Public Library of Victoria, as the SLV was then known). I was struck particularly by no. 4. Were books considered possible vectors for infectious disease —
I’ve previously mentioned the Holden airship. At the moment it is at Brisbane, and there are concerns that it will be flown over the Gabba during the first Ashes test next month.1 The problem is that Holden isn’t paying Cricket Australia anything for the privilege of flying a billboard over the cricket ground, where it
I’ve added a section to the sidebar for history bloggers in Australia. There aren’t many, but I’m always on the lookout for good ones. The least familar one is probably thesouthcoast. It’s is the work of Geoff Robinson, a labour historian at Deakin University in Geelong. It mostly consists of ‘Historically informed comments on labour
[Cross-posted at Revise and Dissent.] Mark Grimsley has an interesting post up at Blog Them Out of the Stone Age / Cliopatria asking people how they would fill out a history department of 15 full-time equivalent positions. I thought it would be fun to try this exercise for an Australian history department. Rather than trying
Some recent airship sightings: An airship is currently gracing Melbourne skies, thanks to Holden. I’ve seen it but not with a camera handy, so this picture by Dr Snafu will have to serve. It’s nice to see it floating around, but at only 54 metres in length, I’m forced to say: that’s not an airship.
It’s exactly 40 years since the Battle of Long Tan, a notable feat of Australian arms during the Vietnam War. But I have a more personal anniversary in mind — yesterday was 90 years to the day since my great-grand uncle John Joseph Mulqueeney was killed by an artillery round during the Somme campaign, on
[Update: due to my misunderstanding of a key word, this post is fundamentally misconceived. Exercise due caution!] Hello everybody, I seem to have got here at last, it’s been a long long time but here I am and jolly glad I am to be here at last. I bring [inaudible] from the people of England
[Cross-posted at Revise and Dissent.] Via Deltoid: the higher education supplement of The Australian newspaper this week has a couple of articles on academic blogging in Australia. (Choice quote from the first link: ‘A spate of studies has shown that making articles available online boosts citations by 50 to 250 percent.’) Hopefully this will encourage
