…they aren’t. Both The People’s War and Bombing Vindicated can be searched online, and I can’t find any passages resembling the ones quoted above. That the quotes are fabricated doesn’t necessarily mean that their sense is inaccurate, in the sense that they may still be fair summaries of what Calder or Spaight did write. In Calder’s case it’s not. Although he quite bluntly speaks of British terror raids, he equally clearly says these were in respo…
…i Hemmingham spoke about the Australian Women’s Register and (forthcoming) online encyclopedia of Australian women leaders. What was interesting here was the way the project has evolved with experience: the encyclopedia was originally intended to be a comprehensive hyperlinked resource, but the problem is that links die. What was available on the web when it was written cannot be guaranteed to be there in the future. So now the encyclopedia is int…
…t’s right on topic and it was published during the war. And it’s available online. The author — given as Merrill E. De Longe on the title page but DeLonge elsewhere — was a major in the US Army Air Corps, a pilot as well as an architect. So he was perhaps in a position to know about any real wooden bomb incidents. Unfortunately, his version of it is just as vague as all the rest: It is reported that in Holland the Germans spent many weeks carefull…
…30, 2019 But while gremlin does seem to be a RAF coinage, according to the Online Etymology Dictionary, it predates the war by a decade or even more, in use in Malta, the Middle East and/or India from perhaps 1923. — Brett Holman (@Airminded) April 30, 2019 Unfortunately, I haven’t been able to find a copy of this poem online. Here’s an example of a sentence that you might hear ‘sitting at the table in an RAF mess’: — Brett Holman (@Airminded) Apr…
…the usual moderate prices, or if you’d rather pay nothing you can read it online or download the ebook. Brilliant! Another example of this trend, and the subject of this review, is Mark Clapson’s The Blitz Companion, which again can be purchased in physical format (this time at an actually moderate price), or read online or downloaded for free, from here (and it’s on JSTOR too). This is more of a textbook aimed at undergraduates, though upper sec…
DUE DATE: FRIDAY 15 JANUARY 2021 Aviation Cultures Mk.V is an online conference for researchers, practitioners and curators to come together to share their knowledge of and ideas about aviation, and its place in history and society. The conference will take place online between 25 and 28 March 2021 and will align with the centenaries of the Royal Australian Air Force and Australian civil aviation, though we welcome papers relating to any place or…
The BBC has put online a catalogue of recordings held of its radio and television broadcasts since about 1930! Not the recordings themselves, mind you, but details such as broadcast dates, participants, and programme summaries, in many cases. Nor is it a complete record of what was broadcast: if it wasn’t recorded (as many early programmes were not), then it’s not in there.Although, oddly enough, some future programmes seem to be listed. But stil…
…. My original plan was to do this every year, but because things move fast online I’ll update it every six months instead. I won’t waffle on too much about my methodology (if it can be called that!); for that, please refer to the original post, as well as for the plots from March 2006. First, let’s look at the number of blogs in the military historioblogosphere. This increased by just over 50% in six months, i.e. an annualised rate of more than 10…
…h Library’s EThOS beta. EThOS stands for Electronic Theses (dissertations) Online Service, and it’s just what you’d expect from that — an electronic thesis delivery service. There’s not too much new about that, but EThOS does have some very impressive features. First is the scope: nearly all British Universities are participating (with two very major exceptions, unfortunately: Cambridge and Oxford). What’s more, any thesis ever accepted in Britain…
…(compulsorily acquired) soured him on the aviation industry, from which he largely withdrew. Instead he took up real estate, and made a fortune in Britain and America. Few of Grahame-White’s writings appear to be online. An exception is Learning to Fly (with Harry Harper, 1914). See also Graham Wallace, Claude Grahame-White: A Biography (London: Putnam, 1960); Oxford DNB; The Pioneers; Early Birds of Aviation….
