1910s, Archives, Books, Nuclear, biological, chemical

Burn or blight

While looking for other things in the National Archives today, I came across a proposed ‘aerial attack on Germany’s next grain crop’ in a War Council meeting held at 10 Downing Street on 24 February 1915.1 It was actually two proposed attacks. Mervyn O’Gorman, a civilian engineer who was in charge of the Royal Aircraft

1910s, Australia, Conferences and talks, Phantom airships, mystery aeroplanes, and other panics, Travel 2014, Travel 2015

Wolverhampton and Newcastle

Today, I received the news that not one but two conference abstracts I’d submitted have been accepted. Which means I’ll be going to some interesting conferences and listening to some interesting talks, but it also means that I’ve made a lot of extra work for myself in just one day. Well done, me! The first

1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, Academia, Aerial theatre, Before 1900, Conferences and talks, Phantom airships, mystery aeroplanes, and other panics, Videos

Seminar: ‘Staging the aerial theatre’

Last Friday, 3 October 2014, I gave the Humanities Research Seminar at the University of New England on the topic of ‘Staging the aerial theatre: Britishness and airmindedness in the 20th century’ (kindly introduced by Nathan Wise), in which I expanded upon my ideas for a research project involving aviation spectacle. You can watch the

Acquisitions, Books

Acquisitions

Bryn Hammond. Cambrai 1917: The Myth of the First Great Tank Battle. London: Phoenix, 2009. I was telling my students about Cambrai only yesterday… well, I mentioned it to them, anyway. Hammond argues that it was the improved British artillery doctrine that was the key breakthrough at Cambrai, rather than the massed tank assault it

Acquisitions, Books

Acquisitions

Liz Millward. Women in British Imperial Airspace, 1922-1937. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2008. A pioneering gender history of aviatrices in the British Empire, including Lady Heath, Amy Johnson, and above all the New Zealander Jean Batten. Not only is this potentially relevant to my aerial spectacle project, but Millward has more recently been looking at

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