The current drone panic on the eastern US seaboard – which started out in New Jersey about a month ago, but has spread to Connecticut, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Pennsylvania, and even US bases in the UK and Germany – is, of course, hardly unprecedented. Not only does it bear obvious similarities to the 2019 […]
Time to bring this puppy (of a series of blog posts) home! Duriong the last couple of weeks I spent in London researching, I also managed to tick something which had been on my bucket list since my first UK trip in 2007: the Portsmouth Historic Dockyard. Portsmouth is a little over 2 hours from
Next July, the Australasian Association for European History (AAEH) conference is being held at the University of Auckland. My abstract having been accepted, it looks like I’ll be going to New Zealand! My presentation is entitled ‘Civil defence from below: street patrols and air raid risk in Britain, 1915-1918’ and here’s what it’s about: As
Nearly at the end of these posts! During my two weeks in London researching, I also managed to fit in some sightseeing (it helped that none of my archives were open on Sundays). Mostly this meant the British Museum, but there were also a couple of other favourite haunts plus a museum I’d never managed
After Liverpool, Conwy. Via Bangor, very briefly. (All I’ll say is that if you tell people you’re going on holiday to X and their response is ‘X? Really?’, that should probably be taken as an opportunity to rethink your travel plans.)
After Glasgow, York. This was a place we had both previously visited and loved, but not for well over a decade and not together. So we were curious to see if we would enjoy it as much now. Folly? Yes, but that’s not important right now.
The first instalment of some much-belated travel photo blogging from our UK trip in May-June 2024. Above, the Sérilly Cabinet, a private room built for the lady of a Parisian town house around 1778, and now relocated in its entirety to the V&A.
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.)
So, I’m back from my long-overdue and much-needed research trip to the UK. Was it worth it? Yes! In raw numbers, I took over 11,000 photos across 13 days at 8 archives in 5 cities.1 Obviously, since I’m not a Bomber Command AOC I’m not going to prioritise quantity over quality. But I did pretty
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
