Roger Horky On many online databases, especially non-academic ones such as Hathi Trust, Google Books, Internet Archive, and the Ike Skelton Combined Arms Research Library, publication date indicates when a periodical first appeared. As a result, you’ll see things like Antiaircraft Journal identified as nineteenth century publication, because its predecessor (Coast Artillery Journal) dates from that far back. you have to be pretty careful when com…
…: Both names are the invention of the honorable gentleman. A glance at the online Hansard reveals that the last two statements are omitted. [this is not the first time I have encountered omissions in the electronic edition of Hansard] Richard As an aside, the Royal Navy apparently had two (seaborne) vessels – a torpedo boat launched in 1907 (which was renamed TB-11 while being constructed) and which sank after hitting a mine in 1916, and a ‘Fly’ c…
People are nice. At the AHA today, I bumped into Bart Ziino, who gave me a present: the sheet music for a 1939 ballad called ‘Lords Of The Air’. I’d not heard of it before, though I’ve probably heard it before as it was played in several episodes of Dad’s Army. You can listen to that version above; it’s a somewhat different arrangement as it’s for an orchestra, not the piano. Here are the lyrics: The British Empire proudly stands As in the days o…
…bout him last year on Remembrance Day, today I thought I would look at the online sources I used for that post. […] Airminded · Somewhere in France […] grave of Pte John Joseph Mulqueeney, in Courcelette British Cemetery, Somme, France. He was killed on 17 August 1916 near Mouquet […] The one day of the century | Airminded […] the lifetime of this blog. Early on, I mostly wrote about Anzac by way of my own family history: my great grand uncl…
…German. My guesses would be 1938-40, a British newspaper, and yes, but the online source, again at the British Library, doesn’t say and the accompanying video stream (by Stephen Dorril) seems to have disappeared. Anyway, plotting the range of aircraft in order to demonstrate the threat of bombing was common enough by this time, as I’ve previously discussed. […] 265 – Olympic Rings of Fear: Japan’s Air Raid Angst (1938) « Strange Maps […] From…
…ink you hit the nail on the head with JBS Haldane. If you search the Times online edition for references to “Barcelona” and “The Lessons of Barcelona” in December 1938, you´ll see that the city was the focus of the “deep shelter” lobby´s campaign — led by Haldane — to make the govt adopt similar deep shelter ARP measures as they had in Spain. As Barcelona was a more accesible city than Madrid, Labour party deleagations repeatedly visited the cit…
…you’re writing a book on this (ARP/civil defence in bombing), so I’ve put online some of the key declassified Top Secret and related reports I’ve photocopied (all out of copyright) from the U.K. National Archives. These ae mostly relevant to WWII and civil defence. PDF compendiums: http://archive.org/details/BritishNuclearTestOperationHurricaneDeclassifiedReportsToWinston At page 87 is an extract from U.K. National Archives document HO 225/12 (Ho…
…both 2 of Bomber Commands key bombers during 1941 before the heavies came online in 1942. Neil Datson But hold on! Surely the lower right of the leading four planes has a different profile to the others . . . possibly a jet with a radome nose? Prescient? Or sinister? Or prescient and sinister? Brett Holman I’m going for option (d): other :) JDK Neat one. It’s building castles on sand to try and offer certainties on generalised designs in art, but…
