Thesis

Thesis

Confirmed

I successfully passed the one-year confirmation stage of my PhD yesterday. It was never really in question: I would have to have been in serious trouble to be given my marching orders at this stage. (On the other hand — been there, done that, got the MSc instead.) But it’s nice to get it out

Thesis

Sounds like a plan

I’m preparing for my PhD confirmation, which means I’m nearly a year in. (Eeep!) This means giving a paper (done), writing a report justifying what I’ve done and plan to do, and appearing before a committee to discuss my report and progress. A cynical viewpoint would be that this is just a hoop-jumping-through exercise which

Conferences and talks, Thesis

Propellors and propaganda

I’m giving a talk next Wednesday as part of the History Department’s Work In Progress Day, and that’s the title I would have given it, had I been the least bit imaginative the day I wrote the abstract. Instead I have a nothing title (“Airpower and British society: plans and progress”), and to go along

Pictures, Thesis

The Great Wall of My Coffee Table

This is my reading list for the next month or so, all from the period 1932-1941. After that, I’ll be back at the State Library to read some more. There’s about twice as many books as there were for the preceding period (1917-1931), though not all of these will turn out to be of great

Thesis

Right: write!

So far in my PhD, I’ve mainly being reading the available secondary sources pertaining to my topic. There’s still so much to go … but I’m going to take a break from that for a few months, or at least put it on the back burner, in order to start writing a chapter of my

Thesis, Tools and methods

LaTeX: the pain, the pleasure

As befits a self-respecting Unix geek, I’ve pretty much finally decided that I will write my thesis in LaTeX, and not in Word (which is what I have been using for the last few years). I am a bit nervous about this. Most historians, I’m sure, have never heard of it, and indeed the typical

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