...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...
...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...
...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...
...) Finding this inspired me to do a bit of a search for other online historical maps of Britain which similarly attempt to cover the whole country. (There's a useful list of out-of-copyright maps here.) Old-maps.co.uk has been around a while and uses OS maps from the late 19th century. Vision of Britain (which site has lots of historical statistics which you can slice various ways, and which I must explore more thoroughly one day) is more sophistic...
...for similar problems, but I doubt a HansardThing would ever reach the critical mass needed for that to work.) But in it's current form, it's easy to use and is laid out in an admirably clear and uncluttered fashion. The little histograms showing the frequency of search results are a nice touch, and you can quickly drill down to a specific timeframe of interest. I LOVE human-readable URLs, ones you could easily read out to somebody (as opposed to o...
...ve also added direct links to the part of the archive site relating specifically to each newspaper; with BNA this also includes filtering by the date range 01-01-1901 to 31-12-1950. Something I need to check is the newspaper's name. I've used whatever each site calls it, but it can change over time. For example, the Taunton Courier, and Western Advertiser was actually the Taunton Courier, Bristol and Exeter Journal and Western Advertiser between 1...
...ll be fatal to Christian civilisation, the one hope we have is that the Powers may be gradually brought together to act together in a friendly spirit on all questions of difference which may arise until at last they shall be welded in some international constitution which shall give to the world as a result of their great strength a long spell of unfettered and prosperous trade and continued peace. Source: Lord Lytton, BBC Empire Service broadcast...
...r war and other international news, as well as reporting on national and local issues. (In fact, it almost seems more interested in what's happening overseas than it is in London or even Edinburgh.) Its highmindedness is also evident in its lack of interest in trivialities (no sports section today!) and in its rather staid appearance, with the outside pages taken up with classified ads, and the news and editorials at the centre of its twelve page....
The US Air Force Historical Studies Office has put up several dozen monographs on the history of the USAF and its predecessors, PDFs available for free download. It seems to be more narrowly focused than the similar effort by Air University Press, as only a few titles look like they might discuss the RAF in any detail: D-Day 1944: Air Power Over the Normandy Beaches and Beyond by Richard P. Hallion (1994), Preemptive Defense: Allied Air Power Ver...
...e scans like? Are text searches enabled and functioning? Brett Holman The scan quality is quite good -- better than the microfilm equivalents for the Express and Mirror which I've used. In those, photos are often impossible to make out whereas here, although they're far from reproduction quality, you can at least see what's going on! And yes, full keyword searching is supported and the interface is user-friendly (until the NewspaperARCHIVE one whi...
