...) 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...
...Flight of the Bumble-Drone – Freelance Investigation […] drones have technically been in use since 1849, the developments of new technologies have made unmanned aircraft come under greater scrutiny from […] Rise of the Machines: The Revolution of Drone Delivery Services - MINI PAK'R […] Outside of their original military applications (dating all the way back to the mid-1800s when the Austrian Empire bombed Venice with unmanned, ordinance-filled ba...
...m Sydney to be closer to his three sons serving on the Western front. Ironically, two of them had been wounded in the Dardanelles but survived Gallipoli and the Western front while their father (and an uncle of theirs he was staying with) died in W9 from German fire. His mother had died at No. 62 six years earlier. See http://newspapers.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/27471694 and http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/15388474 Brett Holman Thanks, Ro...
...is scheme. I would also add that the idea of expanding an armed service by calling up masses of trained mechanics is very different --crazy different-- from calling up a mass of schoolboys and issuing them rifles. Neil Datson I find figures that don't tally deeply irritating. I've just been reading The Most Dangerous Enemy, in which (Chap 18) Bungay tells the reader that in the middle of Aug Fighter Command had 1,438 serviceable fighters. This was...
...n a terrible effort of mutual destruction which will 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....
...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...
