Since I shamefully forgot to blog Battle of Britain Day last year, I made sure not to repeat this mistake this year. I’m marking the occasion by re-watching the classic 1969 film Battle of Britain, directed by Guy Hamilton. I must confess that I love this film. It’s not just because of the fantastic aerial action sequences, featuring several dozen real Spitfires, Hurricanes, Me 109s and He 111s.1 Well, it’s mainly because of that (and the music,…
…imed kick at my backside- I’ve been trying to avoid spending too much time online due to quantity of other outputs at the moment, but I have developed a nasty tendency to post overly long comments on other people’s blogs. […] Dan Egan I respectfully disagree. The war that began in China in 1937 was regional – between China and Japan. Likewise the war that began in Sep 1939 was regional, between Germany on one side and Britain, France and Poland…
…dead! I’ve just been reading some stuff that my mate Lisa has been putting online, in conjunction with her attempts to stop some utter nonsense planning application in York. http://www.yorkstories.co.uk/war/ww2/stephens_memories_baedeker_raid_york.htm It’s on topic for this thread owing to this bit in her contact’s account: “The guns on the Knavesmire were doing their stuff, adding to the cacophony, without being particularly effective, and we wer…
…explain what the map is supposed to show? Btw, thanks for putting the map online! Jonathan Hipkiss The atlas is entitled “The Peoples Atlas – The World Transformed” and is clearly an attempt to layout the current state of the World post the biggest war ever seen at that time. It has the full Peace Treaty in it and the articles of the League of Nations. It has various commentaries of the future by notable people of the time King George, Lloyd Geor…
…ten children, so I guess that your link is from one of his siblings. I would be interested to Know from what writings you are basing your research on . Brett Holman Yes, one of his brothers — I’ll send you an email! All the information is from his army service record which is online at the National Archives of Australia (search on his service number). The one day of the century | Airminded […] my great grand uncle’s death in the First World War,…
…lled The Flying Torpedo. The link can be found on this page at BFI’s screenonline, if the above direct link doesn’t work. Unfortunately it’s only viewable by people in .uk educational establishments. Which sadly doesn’t include me, but that’s ok, I’ve seen it before, in a 16mm copy at what I think is now part of ACMI. So no need to feel guilty on my account :) A good account of early aviation films can be found in Michael Paris, From the Wright Br…
…protection. Brett Holman Thanks, Les. The patent applications can be seen online: 34787/33, 28033/34 and 33023/34 (though only the first page of the PDF version seems to show up). It looks to me like North did consider the aerodynamic characteristics of the two aircraft as a whole, and maximised the characteristics of each for their particular purpose. So it does seem like P-B was not the first to have this idea. I wonder if he knew of North’s pa…
…http://www.ccrs.qmul.ac.uk/holidays/ – this one even says you can now book online. But I’d email and make clear you are a poor student, as the rates may be different. The general website is: http://www.qmul.ac.uk/ I’ve also found these two e addresses. I’d contact them both: residences@qmul.ac.uk holiday@qmul.ac.uk Point out that you are not a kid and don’t want to be lumped in with them. There are lots of adults around in summer doing OU summer s…
…me. By the way, some of the course material from the parent course is also online here: http://openlearn.open.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=2091 Brett Holman Neat. It turns out I already have the set text! Jack I have an idea for another talk…. I did two fairly informal lecture/seminar/workshops last year with undergraduates from Texas. I’m assuming they’ll contact me again soon. They come over to QM every summer to do a kind of mid-stage/2nd yea…
…t’s on the streets in London on Thursday or Friday (can’t remember which). Online it’s available on Thursday. Presumably the Saturday is an historical relic? The news content of this issue of the Spectator seems to correlate best with what was being said on the dailies on 1 September, i.e. the Thursday. That doesn’t help pin down when it was actually read by the public very much, though. Airminded · Monday, 5 September 1938 […] The leading artic…
