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1940s, Links, Maps, Tools and methods

(Nearly) all the bombs

There’s been a huge amount of interest on Twitter and in the media about the new Bomb Sight website, developed by the University of Portsmouth with assistance from the National Archives and elsewhere, and deservedly so because it’s fairly excellent. In short it’s an interactive map of the London Blitz compiled from a number of […]

1910s, 1920s, 1930s, Archives, Art, Australia, Books, Ephemera, Periodicals, Radio, Tools and methods, Words

Trenchardism?

[Cross-posted at Society for Military History Blog.] In the published version of his 2008 Lord Trenchard Memorial Lecture, Richard Overy concluded that now air power is projected for its potential political or moral impact. In Kosovo, Iraq and Afghanistan it is the political dividend that has been central to the exercise of air power, just

1900s, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, After 1950, Archives, Periodicals, Tools and methods

British newspapers online update, October 2012

Another update to my list of early 20th century British newspapers online. There are a number of new titles available: Dundee Courier Gloucestershire Echo Hereford Times Herts Advertiser Lincolnshire Echo Surrey Mirror Yorkshire Gazette In addition, the coverage for another dozen titles has been increased, though in some cases only by a year. There’s additional

Aeroplane vs airship, 1900-1918
1900s, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, Australia, Civil aviation, Periodicals, Phantom airships, mystery aeroplanes, and other panics, Pictures, Plots and tables, Tools and methods, Words

Anxious nation? — VI

Looking over the list of Australian mystery aircraft sightings suggests that some generalisations can be made. In the 1910s, mysterious lights in the sky were usually described as being airship-like; after 1910 they were far more likely to be called aeroplanes. Perhaps not coincidentally, 1910 was when aeroplanes first flew in Australia; certainly a search

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