...the game in this issue was the much-maligned Tito, on a subject I don't recall having much interest in. And the articles in this issue include one on chemical war: "Chemical warfare: perspectives and potentials", by Austin Ray. Of interest here is a table on alleged uses of gas after the First World War. The source for the data is given as Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, The Problem of Chemical and Biological Warfare, volumes 1...
...index (and it really does need lots of corrections - especially the WWI medal cards) but so far I don't think any British organization has actually done it. The same survey also had questions relating to users uploading their own digital images, which could be good unless others have to pay to download them. Paul Gilster What a remarkable resource! Getting older materials online like this should be a priority around the world, and I hope this proj...
...st according to according to Steven J. Dick's brilliant history The Biological Universe: The Twentieth-Century Extraterrestrial Life Debate and the Limits of Science (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996). But from some of my own work I've seen evidence that the canals and the associated question of intelligent life on Mars survived into the 1920s. And now Google Earth shows me this beautiful map made by the US Air Force in 1962. This Mars...
jane fleming Flight to South Africa called in at KISUMU, Kenya. British staff lived there. Passengers also stopped off there. Erik Lund Was that the airfield where army ants built anthills in the middle of the runways? I know that it was an airfield further south that had to be abandoned because it turned out to be too expensive to hire porters to carry in avgas. In fact, by this time Imperial was well on its way to replacing the Atalanta with th...
...s of the different series that were made, what has survived and where they can be found. There are still several major newsreel titles that don't appear to have been digitised yet (eg Gaumont, Paramount); hopefully that's only a matter of time. Newsreels were an important news medium until well after the Second World War. They had a weekly audience of millions and had an immediacy that radio and newspapers could not match (on the flipside, though,...
...see that Rebecca West also contributed a volume to the series, enticingly called The Future of Sex. Was it ever published, does anyone know? I can't find it anywhere. Brett Holman I can't find it either. Google Books does have an issue of Saturday Review (I assume an American publication, not the British one) from 1925 which says: To Dutton's Today and Tomorrow Series, Rebecca West now contributes a new volume, "The Future of Sex." Well, to judge...
...it was "absolutely contrary to International law." The Peoples' War, Angus Calder. London, Jonathan Cape, 1969.* 'Hitler only undertook the bombing of British civilian targets reluctantly three months after the RAF had commenced bombing German civilian targets. Hitler would have been willing at any time to stop the slaughter. Hitler was genuinely anxious to reach with Britain an agreement confining the action of aircraft to battle zones J.M. Spaig...
...xhorted us to find new ways to break things; followed by short spiels by local academics on some of their digital humanities work. There was a lot of really interesting stuff on display, and whether by chance or design each one was digital in a very different way: Susan Lowish spoke about creating a databases of Pitjantjatjara and Yankunytjatjara artwork, Ara Irititja, which is deployed in remote Indigenous communities in central Australia to pres...
...seem to confirm the origin of the wooden bomb story as a British psychological warfare operation. That didn't come from the book read by @secvalve, who did however helpfully provide more details: [tweet https://twitter.com/secvalve/status/800398951773970433 hide_thread='true'] So the book is Jon Latimer, Deception in War (originally published 2001), which cites M. E. DeLonge, Modern Airfield Planning and Concealment (New York: Pitman, 1943), p. 13...
...@Airminded) April 30, 2019 And these are from the other side of the Atlantic and down on the ground: — Brett Holman (@Airminded) April 30, 2019 St Vitus davenport is pretty good, though it seems a bit convoluted for everyday use. Wellard argues that slanguage is not only fun, but can be tactically useful: — Brett Holman (@Airminded) April 30, 2019 The meaning of this American example is left as an exercise for the reader: — Brett Holman (@Airminde...
