I blame society
I blame society for our collective failure to suggest enough posts for Military History Carnival #26.
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Nominations for the 2010 Cliopatria Awards for history blogging are open until the end of November. As usual there are six categories: Best Group Blog, Best Individual Blog, Best New Blog, Best Post, Best Series of Posts, and Best Writer. I think it’s been a bumper crop this year as far as number of nominations
1940s, Air defence, Periodicals, Pictures, Post-blogging 1940-2, Radio, Reprisals, Words
Thursday, 21 November 1940
I was going to end this section of the post-blog with yesterday’s post, but who could resist a front page like this? It’s so emotive and manipulative. The scene itself is tragic enough: the mass burial and funeral of 172 men, women and children killed in the blitz on Coventry last Thursday night. Another seventy
1940s, Air defence, Australia, Civil defence, Periodicals, Pictures, Post-blogging 1940-2
Wednesday, 20 November 1940
According to the Daily Express, the ‘ever-increasing power behind Air Marshal Sir Charles Portal’s master-plan for crippling Hitler’s war industries’ is beginning to yield results (1). The giant Krupp factory (nearly always rendered as ‘Krupps’ in the British press) at Essen had three ‘sections […] put out of commission’, which must be considered especially impressive
1930s, 1940s, Air defence, Periodicals, Pictures, Post-blogging 1940-2
Tuesday, 19 November 1940
Some inconsistencies in the Daily Mirror‘s message today. Liverpool was bombed heavily last night in ‘One of the most severe raids in the air blitz’ (1): Fire bombs damaged a boys’ college and caused casualties; a secondary school was hit by an oil bomb and incendiaries; numbers of houses were destroyed; gas and water mains
1940s, Periodicals, Pictures, Poetry, Post-blogging 1940-2
Monday, 18 November 1940
The Daily Mirror likes its headlines big and bold. The one above takes up two-thirds of the width of today’s front page. The story is that Arthur Greenwood, Minister without Portfolio in the War Cabinet (and deputy leader of the Labour Party; interesting that he is not described as such in an ostensibly left-wing newspaper)
1940s, Civil defence, Periodicals, Pictures, Post-blogging 1940-2, Reprisals, Words
Sunday, 17 November 1940
I have an embarrassment of Sunday papers now: the Observer, the Sunday Express, News of the World and The People. The last named (which has sales of more than 3 million per issue) has Coventry on the front page, but halfway down and underneath a photograph of a pig (I couldn’t say why). US-British cooperation,
1940s, Air defence, Civil defence, Periodicals, Pictures, Post-blogging 1940-2, Words
Saturday, 16 November 1940
News of Coventry’s tragedy — Hilde Marchant, writing on the front page of the Daily Express, above, says the city was ‘Guernicaed’ all Thursday night — has reached the morning press (though it was announced by the government yesterday and would have been reported on the BBC and in the evening papers). Initial reports are
1940s, Civil defence, Periodicals, Pictures, Post-blogging 1940-2
Friday, 15 November 1940
It seems that Mussolini’s attempt to annex Greece may have been somewhat ill-judged. The Daily Express leads with news of a Greek counteroffensive against the Italian forces invading their country from Albania. A spokesman for the Greek government said that their ‘troops were advancing along the whole line’. The offensive opened with a savage attack
1940s, Civil defence, Periodicals, Pictures, Post-blogging 1940-2, Radio
Thursday, 14 November 1940
British and Allied forces have been having a good week, at Italy’s expense. The Italians lost Gallabat (in the Sudan), a division in the offensive against Greece and much of a convoy taking supplies to Albania. The greatest Allied success was the carrier strike against the Italian naval base at Taranto, which took place on