Thanks to Frank Herrera for pointing me to British Fact and German Fiction. It’s a British propaganda film just under fifteen minutes long, made in 1917 by the Thanhouser Company for the Department of Information. Since it has Portuguese Spanish intertitles (luckily with more recent English subtitles), it was obviously shown overseas, though from the […]
On 3 July 2005, I published Airminded’s first post, making it five years old today. I don’t usually mark blogiversaries, but half a decade is not bad in ‘web blog’ terms. This is a good opportunity to thank all of the commenters here, especially the regulars. I’ve been very fortunate in that regard: the comment
Follow the events of 1940 day by day and week by week, seventy years later: Airminded – 7 October 1940 Battle of Britain Day by Day – 31 October 1940 Days of Glory – 31 October 1940 Duxford Operations Blog – 31 October 1940 Nick Cooper’s Random Blog – 31 October/1 November 1940 Orwell Diaries
Recently, Martin Waligorski contacted me to see if I’d like to collaborate with him in his post-blogging project, Battle of Britain – 70 Years. I had been thinking about doing some sort of post-blogging this year to mark the 70th anniversary of 1940, but probably not until later in the year, and for the Blitz
[Cross-posted at Cliopatria.] The new Military History Carnival has been posted at Wig-Wags. One of the featured posts, The state of strategy at Kings of War — which looks at the great strategic thinkers of history and wonders why there seem to have been relatively few in recent times — inspired the above title. It’s
All the cool kids are talking about How to be a Retronaut — well, they were a month or two ago, I confess it’s hard to keep up. How to be a Retronaut is a blog which tries to engage your sense of anachronism to try and shake your assumptions about the past. As the
I was pleasantly surprised when A Fortean in the Archives linked (also here) to my recent post on Boer War airpower for several reasons. Firstly, because it’s always nice to be linked to. Secondly, because I’ve been following A Fortean in the Archives for a while now: the Fortean in question is Mike Dash, a
Military History Carnival #23 has been posted at The Edge of the American West and H-War. My eye was immediately drawn to a post (more of an article, really) on the Greco-Bactrian Kingdom at Sparta: Journal of Ancient Spartan and Greek History. This was a remnant of Alexander the Great’s conquests in central Asia in
[Cross-posted at Cliopatria.] Welcome to the restored Military History Carnival, a round-up of the best military history blogging of the last month. Since history is just one damn thing after another, let’s try this as a chronology. 327-5 BCE: Alexander the Great’s army fights yeti in India. 122 CE: Construction of Hadrian’s wall begins in
Last August I took up Twitter. I’ve just reached a thousand tweets (or will have, when this post is auto-tweeted), so it seems like an appropriate time to reflect on how useful the whole thing is. I was initially sceptical, but I find that Twitter does complement blogging very well. It’s a good place to
