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air-minded, adj.

interested in or enthusiastic for the use and development of aircraft (Oxford English Dictionary)

Airminded is the research blog of Dr Brett Holman, a historian from Melbourne, Australia.

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Buy my book The Next War in the Air: Britain's Fear of the Bomber, 1908-1941 (Ashgate, 2014; Routledge, 2017) in hardcover, paperback or ebook format.

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Rony Ross
on A tall tale of Big BenI have a book published in Israel in 1961. It is a collection of non-fiction spy-related short stories, originally featured
Nick Beale
on What I did in my holidays (research/sightseeing)I came across the Farringdon plaque on my way to a work meeting in London once. It wasn't called Zeppelin
UFO curious
on Goodbye, Zeta ReticuliPearse used the 19th edition of Norton’s Star Atlas, apparently: https://www.academia.edu/54662948/Hill_Wilson_Statistical_Analysis_1
Matt Willis
on Modern wonders — IFound it! Here's the photo of the Battle (probably K7558) that the 9 Oct 1937 cover was based on https://navalairhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/k7558_staniland2.jpg
Matt Willis
on Modern wonders — II think the 'Air Thrills' cover is actually a Battle rather than a P.4/34 - in fact I believe it

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No longer also blogging at

Cliopatria (defunct)
Revise and Dissent (defunct)
Society for Military History Blog (defunct)

In Australia

Space Age Archaeology
the tiger's mouth

On Britain

Antiquarian’s Attic
David Edgerton
Early Modern Notes
Edwardian Promenade
Hatful of History
Quad Royal
The Little Professor
Wynken de Worde

On aviation

A Year of Aviation Illustration & Art
Airplay
AirSpace
From Balloons to Drones
Hush-Kit
Naval Air History
Vintage Aero Writer
x planes

A world at war

ATOMIC-ANNIHILATION
Australian War Memorial
Automatic Ballpoint
Bench Grass
Blog Them Out of the Stone Age
Civil War Memory
Daly History Blog
Great War Fiction
Historical Perspectives
How it really was
Imperial War Museum
Landskip
PillBlogs
Restricted Data
Stoneman's Corner
The Invasion Network
War and Security

Digital scholars

Dan Cohen's Digital Humanities Blog
Found History
Northwest History
Tim Sherratt

Other blogs of note

A Blast from the Past
Beachcombing's Bizarre History Blog
Butterflies and Wheels
Centauri Dreams
Chapati Mystery
Corey Robin
Crooked Timber
Easily Distracted
Executed Today
Frog in a Well
geographical imaginations
History of Knowledge
History Unfolding
In the Middle
Kafka's Mouse
Lawyers, Guns and Money
Paleofuture
Ph.D. Octopus
Philobiblon
Play the Past
Ptak Science Books
Ragesoss
Steamboats Are Ruining Everything
Strange Maps
Tenured Radical
The Edge of the American West
The Renaissance Mathematicus
U.S. Intellectual History

More history

AcademicBlogs: History
Australian Historical Association
Cliopatria's History Blogroll
History Journal Response Times

See also

Academia.edu
Bluesky
GitHub
Google Scholar Citations
Heritage of the Air
Humanities Commons
Mastodon
ORCID
Scopus

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