Alan Allport has a new website, which has information about his forthcoming book, Demobbed: Coming Home After World War Two. (Very spiffy cover too, I must say.) As a companion to the book, he will also be post-blogging the British demobilisation experience from June 1945 to June 1946. That’s right — a whole year’s worth […]
That’s it for the phantom airship scare of 1909. It’s been interesting for me, as I haven’t looked closely at this material since I did my 4th year thesis some time ago (the 1913 scare made it into the PhD, but not 1909). It didn’t last very long, only a couple of weeks. At first,
[Cross-posted at Cliopatria.] It’s just short of three years since I last hosted a History Carnival, so it’s about time I did another. And here it is! Herein you will find such diverse topics as: The Maltese dragon of 1608. Anti-vaccinators of the 18th and 19th centuries. The lives of disabled British children around the
[Cross-posted at Cliopatria.] Airminded is hosting the next edition of the History Carnival on 1 June. Please send me suggestions for the best history blogging since 1 May, either by email (bholman at airminded dot org), by web (here or here) or by del.ici.ous (tagged historycarnival). Thanks! Image source: Weapons on the Wall.
Starting tomorrow, I’m going to try some more post-blogging. It’s 100 years since the phantom airship wave of 1909, when mysterious aerial visitors appeared in the night skies over Britain. Or at least, stories about mysterious aerial visitors filled the newspapers of Britain. It’s hard to tell from this distance: the only evidence we have
The Tarrant Tabor, a prototype bomber designed and built in 1918-9. There were high hopes among strategic bombing advocates (including P. R. C. Groves) for this giant machine, but by the time it was ready for its maiden flight in May 1919, the war was over and its purpose now unclear. Not that this mattered
Military History Carnival 16 has been posted at American Presidents Blog. There’s an easy choice for me (although the snails did make me go ‘ewwww’): The Blogger will always get through has found an intact trench in East Sussex, which was part of the anti-invasion defences in the Second World War. Sterling work, and there
So, the thesis is done, if not dusted. What do I do now? The first thing to do is to earn a living. That’s now sorted, at least for the next few months; I’m doing a bit more IT work and, more interestingly, some sessional tutoring for the Arts Faculty. I last did that in
As my mind has been on other matters of late, I’ve been a bit remiss in attending to matters historioblogospheric. So here are some of the things I’ve not noted: The Military History Carnival has a new home at Battlefield Biker. I think Gavin Robinson deserves many thanks and much praise for starting up the
Last year, one of my posts was chosen for On Line Opinion/Clup Troppo‘s list of the best Australian blog posts of 2007. Well, the 2008 list is being compiled and another of my posts has again been so honoured! It’s a better pick than last year’s, I feel, though it’s not that well written (it
