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1900s, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, Before 1900, Blogging, tweeting and podcasting, Books, Phantom airships, mystery aeroplanes, and other panics, Pictures, Publications, Tools and methods

A little history of the Scareship Age

A couple of months ago, Alun Salt did a very nice thing for me: he unexpectedly assembled some of the posts I’ve written here about phantom airships into an e-book. Using that as the basis, I’ve had a go at learning how to do e-books myself. (Alun recommended using Jutoh, an e-book project manager, and […]

1940s, Australia, Blogging, tweeting and podcasting, Conferences and talks, Reprisals, Travel 2011

A myth of the Blitz?

I’m giving a talk at the XXII Biennial Conference of the Australasian Association for European History, being held in Perth this July. It’s a big conference with some big names (e.g. Omer Bartov, Richard Bosworth, John MacKenzie), and there’s an appropriately big theme: ‘War and Peace, Barbarism and Civilisation in Modern Europe and its Empires’.

1940s, Blogging, tweeting and podcasting, Periodicals, Post-blogging 1940-2, Reprisals

Post-blogging 1940: final thoughts and conclusions

I’ve now finished my (somewhat piecemeal) post-blogging of the Blitz. It’s time to step back and see if there is anything to made of the whole thing. I’ll start with the things I wish I’d done differently. I had intended to use a greater diversity of sources, especially the Popular Newspapers during World War II

1900s, 1910s, 1940s, Before 1900, Blogging, tweeting and podcasting, Phantom airships, mystery aeroplanes, and other panics

Mystery aircraft of the Scareship Age

Over the years, I’ve written a number of posts about various phantom airship scares (which I take here to mean things seen in the sky which weren’t actually there). There are many more I might do in future, pending access to good sources (and maybe I’ll even get around to writing something for publication!) but

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More THATCamp thoughts

So, THATCamp Melbourne is over. It was pretty much as I expected, which is to say it was excellent. I’m not going to write a conference report (you should have been following #thatcamp on Twitter for that!) but two sessions did give me ideas for digital history projects I might like to do. One day.

Australia, Blogging, tweeting and podcasting, Conferences and talks, Tools and methods

THATCamp thoughts

Later this week I’m going to THATCamp Melbourne. What’s THATCamp, you ask? THATCamp stands for The Humanities and Technology Camp. It’s an unconference devoted to exploring the ways in which the humanities and digital technology can work together. It is informal and collegial: attendees vote on the programme on the first morning. It’s practical and

1910s, Blogging, tweeting and podcasting

Don’t sink the Caroline!

The indefatigable David Silbey has posted Military History Carnival #26 at Cliopatria. The link which inspired this post’s title is at Military Times and concerns the fate of HMS Caroline, a light cruiser which was commissioned in 1914 and remains in service as a floating (albeit permanently moored) headquarters and training ship in Belfast. She

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