….e. actually looking at articles and pages — is definitely one of the best out there, even compared with Trove. Of course you have to be concerned about copyright, and you can’t do much without funding; so I’m glad that the First World War years will be coming online, and with any luck the years in between too. In any case I’m sure I’ll be returning to WNO frequently! British newspapers online update, October 2013 | Airminded […] been six months…
…inent (2) 12 October Give this man a job (3) 11 October British newspapers online update, October 2012 (3) 5 October Acquisitions (0) 4 October Lost Dragon (8) 1 October Sykes’s lost imperial squadrons (7) 26 September On Googling British terror bombing (2) 21 September Acquisitions (2) 21 September After Millennium — III (3) 16 September The other vector (1) 13 September Conspiring through the Blitz? (2) 10 September Publication: ‘”Bomb back, and…
…There are articles about the murder in newspapers at the British Library’s online newspaper collections. Most libraries have access to the collection (remote access with a library pin is allowed). Thanks, I’m already somewhat familiar with online newspaper archives :) (I’m a PhD historian; the family history stuff here is just for fun.) I can’t tell if the writer knows that the whole family was together or has assumed a possible makeup of the fami…
…over by cybersquatters. They have a tribunemagazine.org domain which is still working, but their new archive link doesn’t work either. So I’ve taken it off for now. Finally, I’ll just mention Wikisource’s ‘Periodicals, General Interest’ category and the serials list at the Online Books Page at the University of Pennsylvania. These collate links to some useful periodicals like Blackwood’s Magazine from various sources like the Internet Archive; but…
Another update to my list of early 20th century British newspapers online. There are a number of new titles available: Dundee Courier Gloucestershire Echo Hereford Times Herts Advertiser Lincolnshire Echo Surrey Mirror Yorkshire Gazette In addition, the coverage for another dozen titles has been increased, though in some cases only by a year. There’s additional coverage of at least some of the First World War period for seven newspapers, and of t…
…too, though not many. Several Kentish newspapers have been added to ukpressonline for 1914-1918: Herne Bay Gazette, Kent Messenger, and the South Eastern Gazette. More interesting is that these newspapers for the period up to 1912 can be accessed for free, as long as you accessing them in Britain and use a special landing page. It looks like this has been the case for a while, though I missed it because it’s not at all obvious from the usual ukpre…
…presenters either in person at the conference venue or presenting via our online platform. Whether in person or online, all presentations and panel discussions will be available to view live. Presentations may take a variety of forms as follows: ‘Standard session’ presentations involve a full paper (video, slideshow or text) published online 2 weeks prior to the conference. This is followed by a short, strictly 10 minute, live presentation (in pe…
…me news that Flight International is putting its entire run of back issues online, as one searchable PDF per magazine page. So far, the following years have been scanned: 1909-1932, 1935-1940, 1948, 1955-1961, 1964, 1966-1968, 1997-2004. The archive can either be browsed (note that you have to click the “Next page” link to move to the next group of four page listings, which wasn’t immediately obvious to me) or searched by keyword. The significance…
…l Society for First World War Studies Virtual Conference 2021: Technology, online, 16-18 September 2021 (summary). ‘Mutual aid in an air-raid? Community civil defence in Britain, 1914-18’, Australasian Association for European History Conference, online, 5-7 July 2021. ‘How the aeroplane shrank the world: visualising travel times with Trove Newspapers’ (with Tim Sherratt), Heritage of the Air: Modernism, Machines, Migration, Memories, Canberra, 14…
Air University Press, the publishing arm of the USAF‘s Air University, has most of its books available in PDF format for free download. As one might expect, the subject matter is mostly American and recent, but some are on-topic for me, including Williamson Murray’s Strategy for Defeat: The Luftwaffe, 1933-1945, George K. Williams’ Biplanes and Bombsights: British Bombing in World War I, William Edward Fischer’s The Development of Military Night…
