Periodicals

Graphic, 24 April 1915, 518
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 […]

Australia, Blogging, tweeting and podcasting, Periodicals, Publications, Tools and methods

Publication and self-archive: ‘@TroveAirRaidBot, a 24/7/365 research assistant’

I have a short, non-peer-reviewed article about Trove bots coming out in History Australia as part of a special issue on Trove; the advanced access version has just been published. Here’s the abstract: Like many other historians I use Trove for both targeted searches and exploratory ones, which in itself has revolutionised my historical research

Scientific American, June 1905, 480
1900s, Aircraft, Periodicals, Pictures

The mysterious flying machine of the mysterious Señor Alvares — II

Here is what I’ve been able to reconstruct about the Alvares flying machine. Firstly, nothing about Alvares himself, except that he was a Brazilian, who was said to have successfully carried out experiments with smaller gliders in his home country for some 18 years.((Manchester Evening News, 17 September 1904, 3; Daily Mirror (London), 17 September

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