Saturday, June 25, 2022

I Would Run Away to the Air: The British Economy, Montgolfier to 727, II

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  How about that sport history ? Guys, and I do mean "guys," some of us, maybe most of us, are here for the cultural history, for ...
Sunday, June 19, 2022

Evangelists and Politicians: the Fall of Rome, IV: With Bonus Sacred Spring Engagement (Edited)

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  So I understand that the way to get ahead in this blogging game is to go after the big guns and Brett Devereaux, of A Collection of Unmiti...
Sunday, June 12, 2022

Postblogging Technology, March 1952, I: Man Mountain

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British Pathe covered this? Past, another country, etc.  R_. C_., Shaughnessy, Vancouver, Canada Dear Father: If  you detect a certain brevi...
Sunday, June 5, 2022

I Would Run Away to the Air: The British Economy, Montgolfier to 727, Part 1

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  So I thought that scenes of anachronistic hot-air balloons were a B-movie/animation trope. And they probably are, but thanks to the public...
Sunday, May 29, 2022

Postblogging Technology, February 1952, II: Elizabeth Again and Again Forever

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R_. C_., Oriental Club, London, England Dear Father: It looks like you'd better book your passage home with Canadian Pacific, because th...
Sunday, May 22, 2022

Postblogging Technology, February 1952: Elizabethan Age

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The inclusion of a train into the funeral procession is interesting .  R_C_., Oriental Club, London, England Dear Father: I hope you're ...
Saturday, May 14, 2022

"I Would Run Away to the Air:" Industrial History of Strategy, Great Britain, and WWII: Preliminary Comments on a Projected Outline

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  Morbid thought for the day: No book is ever finished, except by the author's death. Not that I have that to worry about a posthumous e...