Biographies

1910s, Biographies, Film, Phantom airships, mystery aeroplanes, and other panics

Claude Grahame-White

I’ve added another biography to the sidebar, that of devil-may-care flying fool Claude Grahame-White. He is probably most remembered today for his daring night flight in 1910 while attempting to win the Daily Mail London to Manchester prize. (His film career seems to have attracted somewhat less attention.) But for me Grahame-White’s main significance is […]

1900s, 1910s, Archives, Art, Biographies, Pictures

The spirit of grief

I’ve finally gotten around to adding Montagu of Beaulieu (pronounced ‘Bewley’, apparently) to my irregular series of biographies of airpower propagandists. He’s an important, but somewhat neglected figure, some of whose papers I’ve examined (those held at King’s College London). He helped found the Air League of the British Empire in 1909, and devised the

Biographies

H. G. Wells

I’ve put up a biographical blurb about H. G. Wells, celebrated author of Select Conversations with an Uncle and Mr. Blettsworthy on Rampole Island. Wells is almost the Alpha and the Omega of my thesis, and perhaps the Kappa too — at least in chronological terms: he wrote the first major novel in English on

Biographies

J. M. Spaight

I’ve put up a biographical note on the jurist and civil servant J. M. Spaight, an important commentator on airpower issues from before the First World War until after the Second. I should have put this up long ago (Airminded gets quite a few search engine referrals from queries relating to Spaight, and there’s not

Biographies

L. E. O. Charlton

Inspired by my chance finding of a 1937 Who’s Who in a secondhand bookshop, and desirous of putting it to use, from time to time I will write up brief biographical notes on people important to the history of airpower propaganda in Britain. The first of these is on L. E. O. Charlton.

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