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Airminded is the research blog of Brett Holman, a PhD student in the School of Historical Studies, University of Melbourne, Australia.
Recent Articles
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CFP: MHJ
9 May 2008 in Australia, Periodicals
This year, because I don’t have enough to do I’ve joined the editorial collective of the Melbourne Historical Journal. Here’s the call for papers for Volume 36:
Call for Papers
Submissions Due: 1st June…
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Doing my part to bridge the Two Cultures
9 May 2008 in Australia, Conferences, Maps
Admittedly, not very much!
I’m giving a talk at 4pm, next Friday, 16 May 2008, in the Fritz Loewe Theatre at the School of Earth Sciences, University of Melbourne. The title is “Facing Armageddon: Britain…
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A giant of the air
7 May 2008 in 1910s, Aircraft, Art, Books, Pictures
A GIANT OF THE AIR. A HANDLEY-PAGE FOUR-ENGINED BIPLANE.
A Handley Page V/1500, the Kabul bomber. Below i…
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The end of the world as we know it
5 May 2008 in 1930s, Civil defence, Periodicals, Quotes
I’m currently looking at the air menace as portrayed in the press during the Sudeten crisis in late September-early October 1938. The interesting thing is that there isn’t much, at least not directly. There wa…
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Acquisitions
2 May 2008 in Acquisitions, Books
Air Raid Precautions. Stroud: Tempus, 2007. Another one of those books where the publishers have obviously asked themselves, Who’d buy this book? and answered, Well, there’s that Airminded bloke — that’s one copy at least.…