...would be there, as always in the past' (as the SMH put it). Which is clearly a bit of a stretch, since another article on the same page reports that the South Australian Premier, Richard Butler, says that the Czech crisis should not lead to a world war. And the Australasian Council of Trade Unions has resolved to resist any attempt to involve Australia in a European war, after hearing a message from the NSW Premier, Jack Lang: The Labour [sic] Pa...
...ad as a young force, ten or fifteen year earlier. That is, it would grow only slowly, and instead concentrate on institution-building, pilot training and building up reserves. The stereotype of Germans as a seriously efficient people reinforced this. As the Deputy Chief of the Air Staff, Air Vice-Marshal Edgar Ludlow-Hewitt, argued in May 1934: A nation so admittedly thorough as Germany will not be content with a mere window-dressing collection of...
...! There's also the thesis-to-book process to begin, assuming it isn't roundly rubbished by the examiners, of course. Finally, there's blogging. I do intend to keep writing at Airminded, although I'm not really sure what I'll have to say -- the problem with a research blog is that when you're not doing research, you're probably not going to be blogging that much either! That is something I'll have to cope with though, as I've just been made a membe...
...rminus, which was still under construction when I was last there. It's lovely. Lover-ly, even. This is the man who wanted Slough erased from the face of the Earth, and they build him a statue. Madness. The great airship sheds at Cardington, where R31, R38 and R101 were all built. The first shed, which goes back to 1916 (the other was brought down from Pulham in the 1920s). The site was originally owned by Short Brothers, but eventually became RAF...
...well-supported with airpower then we must accept that its navy was relatively poorly-supported. Except ... my analysis here doesn't make much sense: it treats aircraft as all alike, equally likely to be deployed to support the army or the navy as required. Of course, this wasn't the case. When formed in 1912, the RFC had a military and a naval wing, the latter of which had hived off to become the Royal Naval Air Service by the outbreak of war in 1...
...s no reason why the parts of an atomic bomb [...] should not be brought in bit by bit by seemingly innocent people and assembled anywhere where cover can be found, in an Embassy, attic, lodging, or a ship in harbour. The threat of its presence could then be used to back an ultimatum, or it could be used to destroy outright the area in which it was placed. He predicts, indeed, that future wars will not be fought by the military at all, but by 'the...
...airfields, one became, in theory, legally able to depart direct from and fly directly into a private strip when crossing the FIR boundary to and from another airspace. This came about owing to the E.U’s Schengen Agreement which came into effect in 1995. This allows, again, in theory, free travel between Member States. Once informed C&E (..and the UKBA.) has the option to turn out. The same applies to the Police, as Special Branch also always need...
...ombines a botanical garden, natural bush, and a war memorial precinct (the bit I was mainly interested to see). I found Perth to be quite an attractive city (with a sensible and functioning public transport system!). A lot of that has to do with the Swan River, which runs through the middle (and has dolphins and black swans), but the built environment plays its part too. (The University of Western Australia, where the conference was mostly held, i...
...ave said something about the specifically historical uses (and limitations) of Twitter. Luckily there are plenty of others who have done that: @katrinagulliver (who is responsible) · @jliedl · @jondresner · @kathryntomasek · @kellyhignett · @kelly_j_baker · @lottelydia · @markcheathem · @publichistorian · @raherrmann · @sharon_howard (with a special shout-out for The Broadside) · @wilkohardenberg PS If you don't already follow me on Twitter, I'm @...
