Brett Holman. The Next War in the Air: Britain’s Fear of the Bomber, 1908-1941. London and New York: Routledge, 2017. Yes, I’m one of those authors, the kind who buys the paperback edition of their own book, just to see what it looks like! At least I’ll get some of that back in royalties… Mike […]
2016 has been a terrible year in many respects, but finally there is some good news for everyone! Well, for everyone who wants to buy a copy of my book, anyway; because in January 2017 The Next War in the Air will be republished in a much cheaper (if not quite cheap) paperpack edition. To
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
Earlier this week I had my first article published in The Conversation, on the actual original context for the Keep Calm And Carry On poster, as opposed to the assumed original context. The Conversation is a great platform for academics to get their work and ideas out to the public, and to provide expert analysis
Rumours have a bad reputation, especially in wartime. They are at best unreliable, at worst flat-out lies. They are distractions from the war effort, if not actually undermining it. They can create unreasoning suspicion and fear or equally unjustified hope and optimism. In short, nothing good comes from them. Unless you’re a historian, of course.
Edward Bujak. Reckless Fellows: The Gentlemen of the Royal Flying Corps. London and New York: I.B. Tauris, 2015. Much of our understanding of the airmen of the First World War has been dominated by the image of the knight of the air (or debunkings thereof); there hasn’t been a lot of work done from a
I have a new publication out — at least, it’s out electronically, I haven’t seen a physical copy yet! It’s a chapter in a collection published by Melbourne University Press and edited by Michael J. K. Walsh and Andrekos Varnava, Australia and the Great War: Identity, Memory and Mythology. My chapter is entitled ‘The enemy
My peer-reviewed article ‘The phantom airship panic of 1913: imagining aerial warfare in Britain before the Great War’ has now been published in the Journal of British Studies, and can be found here (or here, for the free, self-archived version). This is the abstract: In late 1912 and early 1913, people all over Britain reported
I’m very pleased to announce that the Journal of British Studies has accepted my article, ‘The phantom airship panic of 1913: imagining aerial warfare in Britain before the Great War’, for publication. This is exciting for a number of reasons. Naturally, one reason is because it’s another peer-reviewed article (number six, by my count). That’s
I’m shocked to see that it’s already nearly two weeks since I got back from my UK research trip — it seems like it was just a couple of days ago. It was a fairly long trip: five weeks in total, essentially all of them spent in archives in London (National Archives, British Library, Imperial
