Aviation Cultures Mk.VI call for papers
Conferences and talks

Extended CFP: Aviation Cultures Mk.VI

CALL FOR PAPERS EXTENDEDNew Deadline: 13th March 2022Aviation Cultures Mk.VI: Connecting the Regions Didn’t have time to get your proposal in? Don’t worry! We are excited by the submissions we have received and invite others – experts, professionals, academics, and practitioners – to discuss the impact aviation has had throughout the regions at the local and global level. The Aviation Cultures Mk.VI […]

Australia, Blogging, tweeting and podcasting, Periodicals, Publications, Tools and methods

Publication and self-archive: ‘@TroveAirRaidBot, a 24/7/365 research assistant’

I have a short, non-peer-reviewed article about Trove bots coming out in History Australia as part of a special issue on Trove; the advanced access version has just been published. Here’s the abstract: Like many other historians I use Trove for both targeted searches and exploratory ones, which in itself has revolutionised my historical research

Scientific American, June 1905, 480
1900s, Aircraft, Periodicals, Pictures

The mysterious flying machine of the mysterious Señor Alvares — II

Here is what I’ve been able to reconstruct about the Alvares flying machine. Firstly, nothing about Alvares himself, except that he was a Brazilian, who was said to have successfully carried out experiments with smaller gliders in his home country for some 18 years.((Manchester Evening News, 17 September 1904, 3; Daily Mirror (London), 17 September

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