Periodicals

War Savings Certificates leaflet
1940s, Aerial theatre, After 1950, Books, Ephemera, Nuclear, biological, chemical, Periodicals

This might have been a bomb

A bit of aerial theatre from Dan Todman’s (excellent) Britain’s War: Into Battle, 1937-1941: Newton Abbot, Devon, February 1941. The town is holding its War Weapons Week to promote the National Savings movement. It has been set the aim of increasing savings by £100,000 during seven days. To publicize the event, local organizers arrange a

1910s, Books, Conferences and talks, Periodicals, Phantom airships, mystery aeroplanes, and other panics, Publications, Videos

Seminar: ‘First World War Studies @ UNE’

On Remembrance Day, 11 November 2016, I was privileged to be part of a joint seminar with Dr Richard Scully and Dr Nathan Wise, highlighting the teaching and research we do around the topic of the First World War (Richard is the author of British Images of Germany: Admiration, Antagonism & Ambivalence, 1860-1914, Nathan of

White Australia and the Empty North (1909)
1900s, 1910s, Art, Australia, Ephemera, Periodicals, Phantom airships, mystery aeroplanes, and other panics, Pictures, Plays

Australia and the airship — IV

The previous post in this series was supposed to be the last. But in the course of taking two months to write it, I managed to forget about another, earlier association between a White Australia and an Australian airship. This one wasn’t a real airship; it was a fictional one which appeared in Randolph Bedford’s

1910s, Australia, Periodicals

Australia and the airship — II

The Australian airship of New Zealander Alban Roberts seems to have had only three outings, all in 1914. The first of these was a tethered test at the Sydney Agricultural Showground on 23 June, in which the envelope was filled with hydrogen, united with the nacelle, and ‘dragged into an open space, to undergo its

zeppelin+rumour, daily, normalised, smoothed
1910s, Periodicals, Phantom airships, mystery aeroplanes, and other panics, Plots and tables, Tools and methods

The airship panic of 1915 — VI

So I half-promised a final post in this series about the airship panic of 1915. There are a couple of methodological points I’d like to make. The first point is that this is an unusually well-attested panic. There are panics with more sources, but not with so many different kinds of sources. Here, there are

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