...r if I didn't have to check them too, and not many researchers outside of Wales can read Welsh. But when combined with the superior user interface and the completely free access, this makes WNO the most impressive online newspaper archive in Britain. The only limitations are the scope: nothing later than 1919, and nothing that's not Welsh (though it now includes a few titles published outside Wales, in Chester and Liverpool, aimed at or including...
...s – to discuss the impact aviation has had throughout the regions at the local and global level. The Aviation Cultures Mk.VI Conference will be held from the 15th to the 17th of July 2022, both at the University of Southern Queensland in Toowoomba and online. Prizes for best papers will be awarded, and further details will be released closer to the conference date. We are keen to see wide participation from early career researchers and people with...
...ves began [at the Noborito laboratory of the AISR] around 1939 on a small scale with a team of thirty technicians. Their objectives were to determine how best to generate microwaves and how to stop an internal combustion engine by the resonance effect, and they sought to conduct basic research on the physiological effects of microwaves on live animals. That's about all I can find (well, all that has any supporting references at all). Obviously Ku-...
...Road to War series on ABC New England today, I discussed how the mutual naval blockades between Britain and Germany were becoming more total. In this week in 1915, Britain extended its blockade of Germany; the German unrestricted submarine blockade began to sink greater numbers of ships, including one of the British blockaders; Germany acknowledged that it would have to pay the United States for sinking one of its merchant ships; and, off the Chil...
...irst: Pemberton Billing's short-lived Aerocraft has that honour). I've actually already looked at Flight, which is available at the SLV, so I would rather have had the harder-to-find Aeroplane put online instead; but Australian holdings of the early issues of Flight are fragmentary so this is good too. There are no charges for access, at least for now, which is surprising (and welcome). No indications that this will change in future, but it would...
...g, Lyndall Ryan and Shurlee Swain), Unfinished Business: Australian Historical Association Annual Conference 2021, online, 29 November-2 December 2021. 'History from below, looking up: aerial theatre, emotion and modernity', Contemporary Histories Research Group, Deakin University, 27 May 2020 (online version). 'First World War Studies @ UNE' (with Richard Scully and Nathan Wise), Humanities Research Seminar, School of Humanities, University of Ne...
...nhabitants wouldn't feel cornered and turned their will to resist to fanatical/extreme resolve. I think that was one of the consequences of aerial bombing: the will to resist increased to large extent. Well, maybe I'm forcing my point to much. Anyway, it was just an idea. Erik Lund Like Gavin said, siege trains included high-angle mortars as well as guns. They were lighter than guns (the biggest mortars used at Lille were allotted 12 horse teams v...
...for free download. As one might expect, the subject matter is mostly American and recent, but some are on-topic for me, including Williamson Murray's Strategy for Defeat: The Luftwaffe, 1933-1945, George K. Williams' Biplanes and Bombsights: British Bombing in World War I, William Edward Fischer's The Development of Military Night Aviation to 1919, and Philip S. Meilinger's The Paths of Heaven: The Evolution of Airpower Theory and Airmen and Air...
...missions that crop up here from time to time -- I'm definitely more sceptical of the latter. There's no archival evidence of either, so a pure Rankean would dismiss both. But here it's easy to imagine why there might be no archival evidence, e.g., because if it ever happened it might have been unofficial; conversely I've never seen a credible reason why an abortive third atomic mission would still need to be secret. And it's easy to imagine that...
...1991 book England and the Aeroplane: An Essay on a Militant and Technological Nation available online as a resource for students and scholars (though it may go back into print at some stage). It can be found through his publications page, or the direct link is here.They clearly don't like static, human-readable URIs at Imperial College, so if the above links don't work, try going through the Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medici...
