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Oh, the humanities!

[Cross-posted at Cliopatria.] There’s been much discussion in various places and in various ways recently about the woeful state of the humanities in various university systems around the English-speaking world, particularly in light of the Browne Review in the UK — for example, at Larvatus Prodeo (also here and here), Skepticlawyer, zunguzungu (a response to

1910s, 1940s, After 1950, Archives, Contemporary, Periodicals, Phantom airships, mystery aeroplanes, and other panics, Rumours, Space

Churchill and that UFO story

There have been a lot of stories in the press recently with titles like ‘Churchill ordered UFO cover-up, National Archives show’. Actually, the TNA files — part of an ongoing series of releases of UFO-related files — don’t show this at all, as is clear if you read the article more closely. The cover-up is

1910s, 1940s, Australia, Contemporary, Periodicals, Pictures, Words

Mates

This photograph of Australian soldiers was taken during the First World War. It’s not particularly unusual: just a group of mates getting together to record a memento, perhaps after a weekend’s carousing in the fleshpots of Cairo or Paris. Mateship is a important concept in Australian culture. The OED defines it as ‘The condition of

Australia, Contemporary

Oneupairmanship

No sooner does Bomber Command get approval for its own grand memorial — to be precise, a £3.5 million neoclassical pavilion in London’s Green Park commemorating its 55,000 dead — than Fighter Command trumps it with a proposal for an even grander memorial: a ‘Battle of Britain Beacon’ at the RAF Museum at Hendon, which

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