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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 […]

1900s, 1910s, Aerial theatre, Before 1900, Books, Periodicals, Phantom airships, mystery aeroplanes, and other panics, Plays

The aerial theatre

Under the terms of an agreement made in 1909 between the three main British aviation bodies, the Aeronautical Society of Great Britain concentrated on ‘the scientific phases of the movement’, the Aero Club of the United Kingdom was responsible for ‘sporting and social aspects’, and the Aerial League of the British Empire, the one I’m

1910s, Periodicals, Phantom airships, mystery aeroplanes, and other panics, Plays, Post-blogging the 1913 scareships

Monday, 31 March 1913

An unusual phantom airship reference today. The Dundee Courier reports on the ‘successful debut’ of ‘Mr William J. Wallace’s talented company of entertainers’, who ‘made their bow before Dundee [sic] public on Saturday night’ at St Mary Magdalene’s Hall (p. 4). One ‘descriptive sketch’ in particular, entitled ‘Coach Ride from Newport to Balmurnie via Pickletullem

1900s, Periodicals, Phantom airships, mystery aeroplanes, and other panics, Plays, Post-blogging the 1909 scareships, Rumours

Saturday, 15 May 1909

The Standard again has an article (p. 8) on the ‘mysterious airship’, though this time the information is taken from today’s Daily Express. The Berlin correspondent of that paper has been making inquiries there, and reports that German expert opinion is unanimous in believing that the airship ascends from some German warship in the North

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