Bystander, 17 August 1938, 277
1920s, 1930s, Aerial theatre, Pictures, Publications

Self-archive: ‘Spectre and spectacle’

After thirty-six (!) months, ‘Spectre and spectacle: mock air raids as aerial theatre in interwar Britain’, my chapter in Michael McCluskey and Luke Seaber, eds., Aviation in the Literature and Culture of Interwar Britain, is now available for a free download under green open access (in this case, pre-copy editing). Here’s the abstract: You can […]

A giant bull with a human mouth bellows in pain in a crowded street in a bombed city
Art, Pictures

After Guernica

The world is a bad place right now, and a lot of that has to do with bombing civilians. And it’s impossible for me to look at the news from Gaza, or from Ukraine, and not think of my own current book project on the bombing of British civilians in the First World War. But

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