Google Warbird
Cute.
1930s, Australia, Books, Tools and methods
You gotta love the Internet
In a previous post I wondered whether the authors of the 1934 knock-out blow novel Invasion from the Air, Frank McIlraith and Roy Connolly, might have been left-wing, as the artist who (apparently) was supposed to illustrate the book was a communist. I hadn’t been able to turn up any biographical information about either of
Blogging, tweeting and podcasting
Aces
The winners of the first Cliopatria Awards for the best history blogs have been announced. Congratulations to all the winners! On the theory that they are the best of the best, the Top Guns of the historioblogosphere if you will, I have added Frog in a Well (Best Group Blog), BibliOdyssey (Best New Blog)Airminded was
1900s, 1910s, 1930s, Books
The airminded Mr. Kipling
Rudyard Kipling, that poet of empire, also wrote two very airminded science fiction stories: “With the night mail” (1905) and a sequel, “As easy as A.B.C.” (1912). Both were set in the then-remote 21st century, and revolved around the Aerial Board of Control – the ABC of the second story’s title. This is effectively a
Acquisitions, Books
Acquisitions
Stephen Bungay. The Most Dangerous Enemy: A History of the Battle of Britain. London: Aurum Press, 2000. Recent-ish and apparently revisionist.
1930s, Art, Books
The Fall of London
Tate Online has a series of wonderfully melancholy lithographs by James Boswell, showing a collapse in law and order in London – mobs in the streets, bodies hanging from lampposts, looters in museums and so on. Collectively entitled The Fall of London, they were drawn in 1933 and it is suggested that they were intended
Tools and methods
Backup or die!
Patahistory notes this horror story about a student having her USB drive stolen – and with it, her only copy of her nearly complete PhD thesis. Although she did manage to recover the drive, Dave suggests that this is a timely reminder to make backups. Absolutely! I work as an IT manager in an academic
Thesis
Right: write!
So far in my PhD, I’ve mainly being reading the available secondary sources pertaining to my topic. There’s still so much to go … but I’m going to take a break from that for a few months, or at least put it on the back burner, in order to start writing a chapter of my
Acquisitions, Books
Acquisitions
W.E. Johns. Biggles and the Black Peril. London: Red Fox, 2004 [1935]. I felt a bit silly standing in the children’s section of the bookshop looking through all their Biggles books, but I guess I could have pretended I was buying it for a nephew or something …
1920s, After 1950, Australia, Contemporary, Pictures
An unpleasant surprise
I was in the bowels of the ERC library at Melbourne Uni the other day, scavenging for primary sources, when a book called The Peril of the White caught my eye – not because it has anything to do with my topic, but because of the author, who has one of the most splendidly silly