Broadgate, Coventry, 25 August 1939
1930s, Books, Periodicals, Phantom airships, mystery aeroplanes, and other panics

Mistaken identities

From Alan Allport’s excellent new book, Britain at Bay 1938-1941, a couple of sentences about the IRA’s 1939 bombing campaign which were guaranteed to catch my attention as imaginary air raids: Some witnesses to the Broadgate bombing interviewed by the police were convinced that they had seen aircraft in the sky moments before the explosion, […]

Aviation in the Literature anMichael McCluskey and Luke Seaber (eds), Culture of Interwar Britain
1910s, 1920s, 1930s, Aerial theatre, Books, Civil defence, Pictures, Publications

Publication: ‘Spectre and spectacle’

I’ve got a chapter entitled ‘Spectre and spectacle: mock air raids as aerial theatre in interwar Britain’ in a new Palgrave Macmillan collection just out, Aviation in the Literature and Culture of Interwar Britain, edited by Michael McCluskey and Luke Seaber. Here’s the abstract: This chapter argues that aerial theatre, in the form of annual

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