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Western Mail (Perth), 1 March 1951, 10
Blogging, tweeting and podcasting, Periodicals, Phantom airships, mystery aeroplanes, and other panics, Pictures, Tools and methods

Introducing @TroveUFOBot

https://twitter.com/Airminded/status/1288659222431817729?s=20 I’ve made a new Trove bot to accompany @TroveAirBot and @TroveAirRaidBot: @TroveUFOBot. The name is somewhat misleading, since it doesn’t search Trove Newspapers for the keyword ‘UFO’ at all, which turns out to be a bad keyword. Firstly, it’s so short that it frequently turns up whenever the OCR is bad and a random […]

Blogging, tweeting and podcasting

2020-2005 hindsight

I’ve fortuitously remembered that today is the day that Airminded turns 15. It seriously seems like hardly any time at all since the day it turned 10, even though that period has seen a number of personal and professional milestones (and whatever the opposite of milestones is), including my first (and still only) major research

1900s, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, Aerial theatre, Australia, Before 1900, Blogging, tweeting and podcasting, Conferences and talks, Contemporary, Pictures, Publications

History from below, looking up

On Wednesday, 27 May 2020, I was privileged to give a seminar to the Contemporary Histories Research Group at Deakin University on my aerial theatre research — via Zoom, as is the current fashion. I really enjoyed giving it, and I think it was a great success (and thanks to everyone who listened in and

1940s, Blogging, tweeting and podcasting, Books, Contemporary, Periodicals

Don’t let’s be beastly to the RAF — I

Kim Wagner pointed out an article in Providence (‘A journal of Christianity & American foreign policy’) by Nigel Biggar, entitled ‘Thank God for the Royal Air Force!’. Biggar, Regius Professor of Moral and Pastoral Theology at Oxford University, has attained some notoriety for his ‘Ethics and Empire’ research project, which seeks to trawl the history

Aerial theatre, Blogging, tweeting and podcasting, Contemporary, Phantom airships, mystery aeroplanes, and other panics, Videos

Aerial theatre in the time of coronavirus?

[With apologies to Gabriel García Márquez and Ben Wilkie.] It’s not that long ago that I was posting about the Australian bushfires; now it’s the turn of the coronavirus or COVID-19 pandemic, and it’s worldwide. Social media is an essential tool in such times of crisis, but it also can be a misleading one. Here’s

Jimmy Raynes, 'Australia has promised Britain 50,000 more men'
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Daddy, what did YOU do in the climate emergency?

Heavy rains are finally starting to extinguish the distastrous bushfires that covered a last part of eastern Australia during the last couple of months (and of course, bringing floods). Back while they were still burning, James Raynes tweeted a series of images he adapted from Australian recruitment posters from the First World War, which I

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