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1900s, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, Air defence, Books

The superweapon and the Anglo-American imagination — IV

Brett Holman / 6 December 2009 / 100 Comments

…a long margin. It is longer, better produced, and makes more use of colour –although the difference was not as great as I expected. It also has the most illiterate office staff, although this might be a stylistic or even a processual outcome. (For example, if the page layout was determined before the articles were selected, the copy editors would have had to write article titles to exact page length.) Technically speaking, the issues of _Aviation…

Family history, Pictures, Travel 2009

Tremayne and Crowan

Brett Holman / 12 November 2009 / 96 Comments

…to at least 1732 there, or near there, when James Holman was born, my great-great-great-great-great-great-grandfather (I think that’s the right number of greats!) His grandson, John Holman, emigrated with his wife, Millicent (nee Hodge), and their eight children to the new colony of South Australia in 1839. Six other children had died in Cornwall, which suggests a grinding poverty. Their passage was assisted, so they certainly had few means at the…

Imperial Airways: now with extra airmail

Brett Holman / 18 October 2009 / 36 Comments

…125lb (34% all up weight), landing speed 61mph (_Flight_, 1 March 1934, 189–91) At a very conservative consumption rating of .5 lb/hp hr, it should have had a range of 429 miles per 1000lb gasoline carried. Indeed, it was originally intended to install long-range gas tanks in the KLM DC-2 and enter the new Fokker 36 in the race to compete for the handicap prize. (_Flight_, 1 Nov 1934: this is a PDF lift, so I’ll suggest searching for “Albury”). T…

1900s, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, Archives, Periodicals, Tools and methods

British newspapers online update, April 2013

Brett Holman / 2 April 2013 / 3 Comments

…etter than the offline equivalent, the central part of the user experience — i.e. actually looking at articles and pages — is definitely one of the best out there, even compared with Trove. Of course you have to be concerned about copyright, and you can’t do much without funding; so I’m glad that the First World War years will be coming online, and with any luck the years in between too. In any case I’m sure I’ll be returning to WNO frequently!…

Blogging, tweeting and podcasting, Polls

Advice to young (well, mid-PhD) writers

Brett Holman / 21 January 2007 / 13 Comments

…ntence, I find that it really cuts against the grain to do so for academic writing. I don’t think it is such a sin in writing in the humanities, but I first learned academic writing in the physical sciences, where the personal pronoun, singular or plural, is rare (though not unknown). Instead, one would use phrases like ‘the present author’ where in less formal writing one would say ‘I’. I guess this is to avoid the academic equivalent of breaking…

Books

Unwritten books

Brett Holman / 19 August 2008 / 32 Comments

…ar civil defence almost seems burgeoning compared with the WWI/WWII period — maybe due to the lack of the deadening presence of an official history? Or maybe because of the inspiration from studies of American civil defence in the same period? George: Well, some of those I might consider taking on one day, however in general the best plan is to 1. hatch chickens; 2. count chickens … Jakob Dr Jeff Hughes at Manchester has done stuff on Cold War…

1920s, 1930s, Air defence, Books, International air force, Nuclear, biological, chemical, Space

To-day and to-morrow

Brett Holman / 10 January 2010 / 9 Comments

…t some don’t seem to fit at all with the rest at all: dragons? aid for the best-seller? Then there’s what isn’t discussed. A decade later, you might expect such a series to be dominated by international affairs: the future of the League, the future of Germany, the future of dictatorships (which is the sort of thing the Penguin Specials were about, pretty much). There’s not much of this here. It was a more peaceful time. There was plenty of anxiety…

Thesis, Tools and methods

LaTeX: the pain, the pleasure

Brett Holman / 18 November 2005 / 53 Comments

…in another LaTeX post I wrote, about how to set up multiple bibliographies — again, probably not something computer scientists have to do much of … Good luck with your thesis (dissertation) too! Kim Belcher Writing your own style from scratch? That’s crazy talk. I tried to edit the .bst that was available from students at my university and even that was a nightmare. No comments at all, ugh. Anyway, so your post saved me from that fate worse tha…

Blogging, tweeting and podcasting, Books

On being a snob

Brett Holman / 20 December 2008 / 21 Comments

…e than that, on the whole I do think academic histories are better than non-academic histories. If I didn’t think there was some value in thinking and writing like an academic historian, presumably I wouldn’t be doing a PhD in history. In general, books written by academic historians are better contextualised, less narrow in their focus than those written by non-academics. They usually better referenced — I have a very low tolerance for books with…

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