…to November 1946. Covers and story listings for most issues are available online (Galactic Central is the most complete source, though the scans are bigger at Age of Aces and Pulp Covers; these have some of the inside articles or pages as well). Early issues did in fact draw on the First World War. For example, this is the cover for October 1932. A Riesenflugzeug is being attacked by a British fighter which in turn has the Richthofen circus on it…
…ous aeroplanes, lights, etc’, has been digitised and is available for free online — all 1113 pages of it! This gave me the idea to post-blog the panic, but a bit differently: by focusing on the evolution of the archival record, rather than the press one. It will still be in real time, that is I will post about events exactly a century after they happened, but instead of the ‘events’ being the publication of a newspaper article, it will be the crea…
…he other major English-language newspaper archives: Gale NewsVault, ukpressonline, Welsh Newspapers Online, Trove, PapersPast, or Chronicling America. (I can in fact find quite a few mentions of ‘red baron’ in BNA during the war, but not as anything to do with ‘the’ Red Baron, or even a person: it was the name of a prize winner at the 1912 Royal Ulster Agricultural Society show, described in 1916 as ‘Red Baron, the stud bull in the herd of the Hon…
…ately’.3 From some extremely patchy and possibly sketchy information found online, it seems the Luftpolizei (or air police — actual police, rather than the international air police force I’m more usually interested in) acquired two Junkers A 35bs (civil registrations D-2472 and D-2473; similar to the one shown above) in June 1933, i.e. the same month as the raid. How accurate that information is or what it means (ordered? purchased? built? transfe…
…till continuing, but it looks like its AIR holdings are already completely online. There’s no OCR, so you’ll need to search the record descriptions and then browse. There are plenty of operational records, mostly to do with the First World War: squadron record books (AIR 1/1519/204/64/1, covering No. 4 Squadron AFC for January 1918), wing record books (AIR 1/1541/204/77/18, 10th Wing, which included Nos. 2 and 4 Squadron AFC, for February 1918), H…
…ehind The Invasion Network). The rest of the first issue is also available online and includes articles by Bulfin and Wood, Roger T. Stearn (a reprint of the best, but difficult to find, overview of Le Queux’s life and career), Antony Taylor, and A. Michael Matin. Publishing in a literature journal is something a bit different for me — thanks, Ailise! — but it’s also a natural continuation of my BJMH article on early-war enemy within panics. Plus…
…ht be hard as unfortunately the CFA doesn’t seem to have any way to donate online, only through bank transfers/cheques/money orders. If that’s a problem, get in touch and we’ll work something out. Bushfires certainly aren’t a new phenomenon in Australian history, but climate change is predicted to make them much worse, and this looks like the start of that. My book isn’t about Australia, or climate change; but it is about how societies respond to…
…l, if on or near the bleeding edge. There don’t seem to be any full issues online, but you can get a feel for the content at Blimey!, and from the issue indices (and the covers!) at Galactic Central. Every issue seems to have been filled with battleships, spaceships, airships, etc. So, something like the American Popular Mechanics or Modern Mechanics , etc, or a more down-to-Earth Electrical Experimenter. Which is interesting, because this publish…
…The Aviation Cultures Mk.V online conference is just a week away! A lot of activity is going on behind the scenes, but all you need to know is that the extended program (including a list of presenters and presentations) is here, and that you can buy tickets (25 AUD, or 10 AUD unwaged/student/COVID-affected) from here. Oh, and that it’s going to be amazing. See you there!…
…I wrote that it had ‘long piqued my interest’!), and, of course, it’s now online, so I can, and I have: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCIXKkQZMYE Alhough a feature-length version was apparently considered at one point this version comes out at 32 minutes, which is close to the original plan of 25 minutes.6 While it’s no Threads, or even a Things to Come, as a cinematic vision of the next war in the air The Warning is well worth a watch: ‘Every…
