...that the Flight Archive was made available by some kind of Royal Aeronautical Society grant. I will try to find out if this is correct. Erik Lund Flight's banner used to mention that it was the official magazine of the Royal Aero Club and (I think) the Royal Aeronautical Society. Does the RAeC even still exist? Google says that it does, and also that there's a " . . . Royal Aero Club Trust, which is a charity to provide resources for youth involv...
...somehow been neglected. Sometimes this might be a matter of historiographical fashion: the cultural turn in military history is still relatively young, for example, and not all areas have been touched by it yet. In others there already exists a detailed account, which was written decades ago and seems to have obviated the need for further research. Sometimes the gap in the literature seems inexplicable. And, OK, sometimes the topic isn't all that...
...econnaissance 4 India Corps reconnaissance for co-operation with infantry, cavalry, and artillery 4 India Day bombers 2 India Large day bombers 2 East Africa, Uganda, and Nyasaland Large day bombers 1 West Africa Large day bombers 1 Assuming I haven't made any mistakes in collating these numbers (and I've been through them twice now), and assuming both my arithmetic and my spreadsheets' are accurate (and you can check for yourself using the export...
...Jonathan Dresner That makes sense, thanks. There's an interesting etymological/social background there.... Allan Janus Brett, there's a chapter on Moquet Farm in Capt. David Fallon's "The Big Fight", 1918. Fallon was an Irishman who served in the Australian forces at Gallipoli and later with the Oxford and Bucks - he was slightly wound at Moquet Farm - sounds like a hell of a fight. Brett Holman Thanks, I'll have to track that down! I hope to visi...
...e Fear of Air Attack and British Politics, 1932-1939. London: Royal Historical Society, 1980. (notes) Edgerton, David. England and the Aeroplane: Militarism, Modernity and Machines. London: Penguin, 2013. Second edition. (notes on the first edition) Gollin, Alfred. No Longer an Island: Britain and the Wright Brothers, 1902-1909. London: Heinemann, 1984. Gollin, Alfred. The Impact of Air Power on the British People and their Government, 1909-14. St...
...of Hartmann and his glum band of killers are given scant attention, a critical flaw in an ostensibly serious novel about political revolutionaries. The novel's one enjoyable aspect are its illustrations, by Fred T. Jane. Jane is now remembered as the creator of the Jane's All The World series of books on naval ships and planes, but during his lifetime he was known as an author (see: Lt. Edward Blake, The Violet Flame) and illustrator. His art for...
...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-...
...curred at Hythe where, after the raid on May 25th, 1917, a mob invaded a local aerodrome, stoned the mechanics and attempted to wreck the hangars, because the Royal Air Force [sic] unit had not protected the town. As a matter of fact the unit in question was a training school and did not possess a single machine capable of reaching the raiders.1 Along with deaths caused by panic-stricken crowds rushing for shelter and the nightly trekking of peopl...
...ine There is also a semi-official (since the author was head of Air Historical Branch) history of the raids specifically: Joseph Morris, The German Air Raids on Britain, 1914–1918 (Sampson Low, Marston & Co., 1925) Narrative/popular histories These mostly follow the Official History in their focus on the air defence narrative, but in the last decade or two this has been joined by an increasing interest in the civilian victims of the raids. Ian Cas...
[Cross-posted at Cliopatria.] The Royal Historical Society has for some years maintained an online bibliography of British and Irish history, updated three times a year. It currently has over 460,000 records. It's a fantastic resource for scholars interested in any aspect of the history of the British Isles, not least because it's free. But from 1 January 2010 it won't be: it will be rebranded as the Bibliography of British and Irish History whic...
