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...t have been intended to re-erect it in Wiltshire or at the RAF Farnborough site, but the result was that the shed was divided into two parts and formed part of the structure for two separate buildings on the factory site at Farnborough. The lower part of the frame became building Q65 (to become the fabric workshop) erected in 1916-17, and the upper became building R51 (to become the forge and foundry) erected in 1914. I suspect this portable hanga...

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...unced. 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 surprisingly nominated in this category, but boy was the competition stiff!, The Rhine River (Best Series of Posts) and Easily Distracted (Best Writing) to the list of noteworthy blogs on the sidebar. Go, read, and l...

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...eatly appreciated. John Doe I just found this russian military document website: http://www.armourbook.com/fly/flyafterwwii/49726-flight-international-3842-vol-122-25-december-1982.html Don't know how complete the archive is tough or whether the links are active and safe to download from. Might be worth giving it a shot. Desmond Markus "My uninformed (but not uneducated) guess is that the original archive depended on a bespoke and probably very sp...

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...explosive that transcended the limits of chemistry. Then, when we bombed a site, we could be sure. jason korke Welcome back... again! Brett Holman nuking the entire site from orbit was the only way to be sure Yeah, so, it turns out that 'entire' a very important word in this phrase. One part of the old site I didn't rebuild was another WordPress blog called scareships which wasn't being used as a blog but as a chronicle of the 1909 and 1913 phanto...

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...rations.asp Also, how about checking out some Sub-Brit stuff, like: http://www.subbrit.org.uk/rsg/sites/k/kingsway/index.html Jakob I was wondering whether a trip to the 11 Group sector room at Uxbridge might be possible, but I don't know whether they're still open to the public; I haven't been able to get any response to my emails. Brett Holman Too much to see! At this rate I'll be too busy sightseeing to remember the flight home :) Airminded · S...

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...rbia in response to the assassination of Franz Ferdinand. Despite a throat infection and a couple of stumbles, and going under time, I think it went alright. You can listen to it here. This is my first contribution to a weekly radio series, 'The Road to War', where historians from the University of New England (mostly) and Flinders University will discuss the events of 1914 and then 1915, a century after they happened. The idea, at least at this s...

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...heir time in overcrowded shelters there will be real risk of the spread of infection. That, quite as much as the risk of injury or death from bombs, is what is prompting this new departure by the Ministry. Whether this evacuation scheme will be more successful than the previous ones remains to be seen. Everyone is puzzled over the Free French withdrawal from Dakar -- de Gaulle's statement that he did not want to shed French blood to overcome Vichy...

...ld War. I was glad that I could speak, because I had an unfortunate throat infection that at times took away my voice entirely (and my poor students are still having to deal with the aftereffects). But I got through it, and the audience, if small, seemed appreciative. I had planned to use the talk to push the planning for my forthcoming research trip to the UK, but in the event teaching meant that I didn't have time to do any substantial new resea...

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...ineffectual Zeppelin raids on Norfolk, the novelist Marie Belloc Lowndes visited some relations of Reginald McKenna, the Home Secretary. There she was told that Mr. Gatty [a London historian] had heard from the Duke of Westminster that Winston Churchill says he expects a fleet of a hundred Zeppelins to leave for England on the eve of the Emperor's birthday, January 26th! He expects seventy to be destroyed, but believes that thirty will reach Londo...

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...r conflict. WWII is too often used just to refer to the European conflict, dating it from the Invasion of Poland, or, in the US, from Pearl Harbor. From the perspective of an Asianist, WWII is in full swing by 1938. Secondly, you're right about the last poster: the header (roughly) reads "Poison Gas Attacks and Emergency Preparations" and the vertical text towards the bottom says "When you don't have a poison protection room or when your home has...