There aren't a great many sites of memory left to evoke the first bombing war, so during my recent UK trip I thought I'd make the effort to track a couple of them down. (One, Cleopatra's Needle, I did see on my first UK trip, but have never managed to make it back.)
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That's right...
... I'm going on a research trip...
... to the UK!
(I suppose this post should technically be called Archivwochen, but that's a little too pedantic even for me.)
It's been nearly a decade since my last visit, and that was long before I started working on Home Fires Burning. So I've built up a large pile of research questions which can only be answered in the archives. Airminded will therefore be in hiatus until July, while I holiday in England, Scotland, and Wales, and (more importantly for the purposes of this blog) research in the following archives:
I'm hoping to have some sort of Airminded meetup or meetups, so if you're in or near any of these places in late June, drop me a line!
