The year of reading airmindedly — IV
Bombs, ‘Bomber’, and bombers (among other aircraft).
Books, Pictures, Reviews
Books
Books, Pictures, Reviews
The year of reading airmindedly — III
Group biography, airport architecture, and a campaign history. (If it wasn’t obvious by now, I’m selecting these books completely at random!)
Books, Pictures, Reviews
The year of reading airmindedly — II
A definite Australian flavour this time, from the Empire Air Training Scheme (as the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan usually isn’t known as) to whatever happened after the Empire Air Training Scheme. Plus the book of a certain aviation history blog (remember blogs? Me neither).
Books, Pictures, Reviews
The year of reading airmindedly — I
2023 will mark 120 years since the first controlled heavier than air flight, and 240 years since the first more or less controlled lighter than air flight. Much more importantly, it’s also the year in which I am going to get my ever-growing stack of to-be-read aviation history books under control! I can’t promise that
1930s, 1940s, Australia, Books, Periodicals, Phantom airships, mystery aeroplanes, and other panics, Pictures
A miscellany of Australian mystery aircraft, 1903-1940 — III
After 1903, 1911, 1913 and 1928, it’s time to round off this miscellany of Australian mystery aircraft with 1939 and 1940 — separated by little over a year in time, but quite far apart in place and circumstance.
1900s, 1910s, Books, Periodicals, Pictures, Publications
Self-archive: ‘William Le Queux, the Zeppelin menace and the Invisible Hand’
A few years back, my article ‘William Le Queux, the Zeppelin menace and the Invisible Hand’ was published in Critical Survey, with the following abstract: In contrast to William Le Queux’s pre-1914 novels about German spies and invasion, his wartime writing is much less well known. Analysis of a number of his works, predominantly non-fictional,
1910s, Art, Books, Ephemera, Home Fires Burning, Periodicals, Pictures, Publications
The German air raids on Britain, 1914–1918: a reading list
While you’re waiting for me to write Home Fires Burning, here are some other books (mostly) on the same topic, whether wholly or in substantial part. This is not meant to be in any way a comprehensive list; it’s merely what I have found to be most useful. I’ve included links to out-of-copyright/open access versions,
1910s, Art, Books, Home Fires Burning, Periodicals, Pictures, Publications
Why this book?
So I’m writing a book. Why? There are already many histories of the German air raids on Britain in the First World War: in my proposal, I listed eleven published since the 1980s alone, and even that is hardly exhaustive. Many of these are excellent — Ian Castle’s books, in particular, are required reading on
1910s, Art, Books, Home Fires Burning, Periodicals, Pictures, Publications
Book contract: Home Fires Burning
I am delighted to announce that I have signed an advance contract with Cambridge University Press((Founded in 1534. Just sayin’…)) to publish my next book, currently entitled Home Fires Burning: Emotion, Spectacle, and Britain’s First War from the Air, in their Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare series. Here’s a one
1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, Australia, Books, Periodicals, Plots and tables, Words
The air raid vanishes — III
The time has finally come to address the claim I’ve made in the title of this series of posts, that the air raid somehow vanished. Why did I say that, and what does it mean? Well, look at the plot above. Previously I looked at how often ‘air raid’ (and related phrases) appeared per issue