Publications

Aberdeen Press and Journal, 3 March 1939, 6
1930s, Books, Periodicals, Pictures, Publications

It’s that quote again — IV

I showed in an earlier post that scepticism of Baldwin’s dictum that ‘the bomber will always get through’ begins to appear in the British Newspaper Archive (BNA) in 1937, if only in a very small way. In 1938, the majority opinion still takes it to be axiomatic. For example, town alderman W. A. Miller, attacked […]

1920s, 1930s, Aerial theatre, Publications

Self-archive: ‘The meaning of Hendon’

My article, ‘The meaning of Hendon: the Royal Air Force Display, aerial theatre and the technological sublime, 1920–37’, has been accepted for publication in Historical Research (the journal of the Institute of Historical Research). I’m not sure when it will be published yet, and I can’t self-archive the post-peer-reviewed version until 24 months after publication.

1910s, 1920s, 1930s, Aerial theatre, Australia, Periodicals, Publications

Self-archive: ‘The militarisation of aerial theatre’

My article, ‘The militarisation of aerial theatre: air displays and airmindedness in Britain and Australia between the World Wars’, has just been accepted for publication in Contemporary British History. It will be part of a special issue edited by Andrekos Varnava and Michael J. K. Walsh on ‘The production of popular culture and its relationship

1910s, Australia, Books, Nyang Week, Phantom airships, mystery aeroplanes, and other panics, Publications

Self-archive: ‘The enemy at the gates’

In 2016 I contributed a chapter on the 1918 mystery aeroplane panic to Australia and the Great War: Identity, Memory and Mythology, an edited collection published by Melbourne University Press. While I’d already published a peer-reviewed article on the same topic, this was broader in scope as it attempted to provide a transnational narrative and

Grants, Publications, Travel 2018

Zeppelins and Gothas and a Fellowship

I’m very pleased to announce that I have been awarded an Australian Bicentennial Fellowship by the Menzies Centre for Australian Studies at King’s College London. This is a travel grant which I will use to come to the UK to continue research for my next book, a history of Britain under the German air raids

British Journal for Military History
1910s, Periodicals, Phantom airships, mystery aeroplanes, and other panics, Pictures, Publications, Rumours

Publication: ‘Constructing the enemy within’

The latest issue of the British Journal for Military History is out, and with it my peer-reviewed article ‘Constructing the enemy within: rumours of secret gun platforms and Zeppelin bases in Britain, August-October 1914’: This article explores the false rumours of secret German gun platforms and Zeppelin bases which swept Britain in the early months

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