Chris Williams (AKA Chris A. Williams) has put online a recording of a lecture he gave last year about the evolution of the police C3I system, by way of train control and air defence. (See also here.) More like this, please!
Yep, me! On current plans, I’m flying in to Heathrow on 9 September and flying out on 1 October (if I’m not mistaken, on an A380 both ways). It’s mainly for a holiday and to catch up with people, but I will also be attending the Bombing, States and Peoples in Western Europe 1940-1945 conference
Thanks to Jonathan for the tip: the Bombing, States and Peoples in Western Europe 1940-1945 project is holding a workshop at the University of Reading on 13 March 2009, on ‘War, Bombing, and Trauma: World War 2 and Comparative Perspectives’. It’s free but the registration deadline is 3 March 2009. They are also holding an
Here are a couple of photos I used in my AHA talk last week: This is a Lufthansa Ju 52/3m, one of the great airliners of the 1930s, at Croydon aerodrome, ca. 1936. Other operators included Swissair, Aeroflot, and British Airways (an ancestor of the current airline of the same name).
This is the talk I gave at Earth Sciences back in May. It’s long and picture heavy and much of it will be be familiar to regular readers, but some people expressed some interest in it so here it is. I’ve lightly edited it, mainly to correct typos in my written copy. I’ve put in
Admittedly, not very much! I’m giving a talk at 4pm, next Friday, 16 May 2008, in the Fritz Loewe Theatre at the School of Earth Sciences, University of Melbourne. The title is “Facing Armageddon: Britain and the Bomber, 1908-1941” and it will be a broad overview of my thesis topic. It should be fun, for
I’ll be giving a talk entitled “From Darfur to London: P. R. C. Groves and the construction of aerial apocalypse, 1916-1922”, at the Australian Historical Association’s Biennial Conference, Locating History, 7-10 July 2008, which is conveniently being held at the University of Melbourne. Here’s the abstract: The idea that cities could be shattered and wars
On Friday, I went along to a talk on “Great War aerial photography: a source for battlefield survey and archaeology?”, given by Birger Stichelbaut of Ghent University in Belgium. This brings the total number of in-any-way-related-to-early-20th-century-aviation talks given at the University of Melbourne during my PhD candidacy (as far as I know and excluding a
Cranwell is a RAF base in Lincolnshire (not far from Newark or Grantham, or Lincoln for that matter). It was first established as a RNAS training station in 1915, and sortied the odd anti-zepp patrol in the next few years. In the 1930s, Frank Whittle did much of his work on jet engines here; indeed,
This week I attended the bi-annual departmental Work in Progress Day, where postgrads give talks on their research. I wasn’t presenting this time around (I did earlier this year) but it turns out that two of my fellow students are also fellow bloggers! (Which, as far as I know, makes a total of three for
