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New Zealand — why not?

The XXIII Biennial Conference of the Australasian Association for European History will be held at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, in July 2013, and I’ll be presenting a paper with the following title and abstract: ‘What are the Germans up to?’ The British phantom airship scare of 1913 In late 1912 and early 1913, […]

1940s, Blogging, tweeting and podcasting, Contemporary, Periodicals, Radio, Reprisals

Social war, now and then

[Cross-posted at Society for Military History Blog.] The current conflict in Gaza has attracted much media attention for the so-called Twitter war being fought between the IDF and Hamas, or, more precisely, between the @IDFSpokesperson and @AlqassamBrigade accounts and their respective followers. Insults are traded back and forth, photos and videos of rocket attacks and

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Blog and blog again

I’m honoured to have been asked to be a member of the new Society for Military History Blog. The other members are Lieutenant Colonel Robert Bateman, Mark Grimsley, Jamel Ostwald, and Brian Sandberg. I’ve been involved in a couple of previous group blogs; this one is obviously more focused in topic (albeit ‘military history’ is

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Post-blogging Nehemiah Wharton’s letters and post-tweeting other things

At Investigations of a Dog, Gavin Robinson (as seen on Twitter!) has started post-blogging the letters of Nehemiah Wharton, a sergeant in the Parliamentary army during the English Civil War. The first letter is up: 16 August 1642. Gavin provides context and interpretation, but he’s also transcribing the letters in full since the published transcriptions

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Look at the new look

After six years, I’ve decided to try out a new look for Airminded by switching to the Elemin theme. There’s still a bit more tweaking to be done before I decide whether it will stay or not, but I think it’s a pretty clean and minimalist style. It’s also ‘responsive’, which means it reformats gracefully

1910s, Australia, Blogging, tweeting and podcasting, Conferences and talks, Phantom airships, mystery aeroplanes, and other panics

Mystery aircraft and airmindedness

My abstract for the Australian Historical Association’s 31st Annual Conference, to be held in Adelaide this July, has been accepted. The title and abstract are as follows: Dreaming war: airmindedness and the Australian defence panic of 1918 Between March and June 1918, Australian newspapers, police forces and military intelligence units were deluged with hundreds of

1930s, Blogging, tweeting and podcasting, Periodicals, Phantom airships, mystery aeroplanes, and other panics, Publications

Self-archive: ‘The air panic of 1935’

It’s now a year since my article ‘The air panic of 1935: the British press between disarmament and rearmament’ was published in the Journal of Contemporary History. As noted noted previously, as it was with SAGE this means I can now self-archive the accepted version (i.e. which has passed peer review). This is the abstract:

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