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Graphic, 5 February 1916, 8
1910s, Civil defence, Conferences and talks, Pictures

Civil defence, British pluck, and the Gotha shock

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…l Society for First World War Studies Virtual Conference 2021: Technology, online, 16-18 September 2021.] The first thing to note is that the German air raids on Britain of the First World War were much smaller in scale than those of the Second World War: they killed 1100 people compared with 43000. They are significant, however, precisely because they were the British people’s first war from the air, and so informed expectations, and preparations…

Sphere (London), 26 April 1947, 99
1940s, Periodicals, Pictures, Space, Tools and methods, Words

The first Big Bang — I

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…don), 26 April 1947, 99. Fred Hoyle, script, March 1949; in Fred Hoyle: An Online Exhibition. Apparently reprinted in Listener, 7 April 1949, but I haven’t seen this. [↩] Helge Kragh, ‘Big Bang: the etymology of a name’, Astronomy & Geophysics 54, no. 2 (2013): 2.28-2.30. [↩] Quoted in ibid., 2.29. Kragh argues, I think persuasively, that Hoyle did not intend ‘big bang’ to be derisive, as is often said. [↩] Jan Rüger, Heligoland: Britain, Germany,…

Queenslander, 8 March 1928, cover
1910s, 1920s, Australia, Periodicals, Phantom airships, mystery aeroplanes, and other panics

A miscellany of Australian mystery aircraft, 1903-1940 — II

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…was asked in Parliament (as reported in the press; I can’t find it in the online version of Hansard) which was framed as being about ‘The possibility of hostile aeroplanes spying out Australia’: Mr Fleming (NSW) inquired whether the attention of the Minister for Defence had been drawn to a newspaper report, that an aeroplane, carrying a searchlight, had been seen crossing the Hunter Valley on Friday at 2 am. He remarked that this was not the firs…

a confused man surrounded by social media apps
Blogging, tweeting and podcasting, Pictures

Where am I?

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…ections. There’s no longer any one place to go. And so, being as extremely online and extremely indecisive as I am (and also because my day job is in communications), I’ve settled on… pretty much all of them! So here’s where you can find me, in descending order of likelihood: Twitter/X: @Airminded (no, I will be deleting this) Bluesky Social: @airminded.org (now the best alternative) Mastodon: @Airminded@hcommons.social (I check here often) I’m al…

1910s, Air defence, Art, Games and simulations, Home Fires Burning, Pictures

1BoB+

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…hey won’t make much sense without a copy of 1BoB itself, but the rules are online if you’re interesting in digging into that level of detail. First, though, while my comments below are often framed as criticisms of 1BoB, one thing I learned in this process is that game design is actually very hard! It’s one thing to come up with a ‘more historical’ rule; it’s another thing altogether to figure out how that change interacts with the other rules, le…

1900s, Phantom airships, mystery aeroplanes, and other panics, Videos

Scareships over YouTube

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…ded ones (e.g. British airships; the Welles War of the Worlds panic/’panic’; the York Blitz), so it’s well worth having a look. Catherine cites Airminded as a source for the 1909 panic, along with David Clarke’s key 1999 Fortean Studies article (which can currently be found online here); in fact she kindly wrote to thank me for making my research accessible. Which of course I’m very pleased about, as it’s one of the reasons why I started Airminded…

1910s, Art, Civil defence, Pictures

Images of Great War tube shelters

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…ge group of shelterers in Dover’s Oil Mill Cave in 1916 which I can’t find online, but is perfectly clear (albeit clearly posed and probably specially lit).4 Another possibility is license, official or social. Maybe the authorities didn’t allow photographers to take photos of tube stations being used as shelters, since this may have been seen as a propaganda gift to the enemy. Or maybe those who tried were seen off by the shelterers themselves, wh…

1940s, Australia, Contemporary, Periodicals, Pictures

An Anzac on England

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…ar Memorial, 1942), 17. I have my grandparents’ copy, but luckily found an online version at Digger History 2, which saved me having to mash my fragile copy into the scanner. The original caption reads ‘Above: Australian troops marching past the cenotaph in Whitehall, London, and a Digger feeding pigeons in Trafalgar Square. Below: Men from Forestry and Railway units awaiting the order, “Fall in”.’ Including two members of my family. [↩] The main…

Blogging, tweeting and podcasting, Pictures

Good memes

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…ty. That’s good for my career prospects (ha) and so on, but making friends online helps alleviate the isolation of living in a PhD bubble. In general, keep in mind that the purpose of a research blog is to help you with your PhD in some way. When? About 2 or 3 times a week works for me. Some people manage more! But obviously, this depends upon what other things are going on in your life, and even more obviously, the thesis itself is one of those t…

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