Partly in lieu of the thing itself, but mainly just for fun, here are some word clouds of my thesis (generated with Wordle). So the above image shows the 75 most frequent words in the entire document, with the biggest word being the most common. (So it’s something to do with air and war and […]
The Next War in the Air: Civilian Fears of Strategic Bombardment in Britain, 1908-1941 Introduction The knock-out blow; Imagining the next war in the air; Historiography of the knock-out blow; The structure of this thesis I. Threats 1. Origins of the knock-out blow theory, 1893-1931 The doom of the great city, 1893-1916; Will civilisation crash?
I received a letter from the university today, containing a form which is ominously entitled ‘Completion Report for PhD Candidates’. I guess they are expecting to receive a thesis from me in the not too distant future! One of the things I have to finalise is the title of the thesis. According to the form,
No, I’m not heading for Venus, nor am I travelling back in time in the USS Nimitz. But it is the final countdown nonetheless. I’m in the last few months of my PhD, and plan to submit it in late February 2009, just under four months away. I’m on track for that, I think —
This is the talk I gave at Earth Sciences back in May. It’s long and picture heavy and much of it will be be familiar to regular readers, but some people expressed some interest in it so here it is. I’ve lightly edited it, mainly to correct typos in my written copy. I’ve put in
[Cross-posted at Revise and Dissent.] Not a phrase I ever expected to come across, but here it is, in David Omissi’s Air Power and Colonial Control, the context being the introduction of one the most successful aircraft of the interwar period, the Hawker Hart: The Hart was soon found to be suitable for India; fifty-seven
I’ve just spent two months at various libraries and archives in the UK. As I’ve noted previously, I now have a huge amount of extra primary source material to go through. Sure, in the abstract, more is better, but in concrete terms, how will this help make my thesis better than it would otherwise have
The title relates to both the content of a paper I gave yesterday at the School’s Work In Progress Day, and to my own state of mind beforehand! I think it went well, though — at least there was no rotten fruit thrown at the end! — which is good because it was the first
