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Independent PhD historian (aviation, bombing; #WW1, #WW2; Britain, Australia; emotions, spectacle); books (Home Fires Burning (WW1 air raids on Britain; in […] [bridged from https://hcommons.social/@Airminded on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
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So I've had a meeting with the NLA and I'm still in shock. Apparently under the current interpretation of the #Trove API terms of use, you cannot access 'content', only 'metadata'. This means, for example, it is a breach of the terms of use to download the text of a newspaper article using the […]

submitted 4 days ago • 4 comments

David Kenyon, Arctic Convoys: Bletchley Park and the War for the Seas #FridayReads

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Help! On Friday the National Library of Australia suspended my Trove API keys, threatening 15 year's work helping researchers use & understand Trove. If you use my tools or value my work you might like to let the NLA know. Details here […]

submitted 8 days ago • 10 comments

Adding to my list of tools threatened by the NLA's decision to revoke my Trove API keys... The Trove Newspaper Harvester is a Python package I've been developing and maintaining since 2009. It's been cited multiple times in the research literature. Without an API key I can't undertake any […]

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Utterly absurd https://hcommons.social/@wragge/114038907778980663

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Nice. So the NLA has cancelled all my #Trove API keys because of the work I did recently trying to help researchers & communities more easily use the rich collections of periodicals uploaded through the National eDeposit service (described here […]

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Clarkesworld 221; Interzone 301 #FridayReads

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NAM Rodger, The Price of Victory: A Naval History of Britain, Vol 3: 1815-1945 #FridayReads

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NAM Rodger, The Command of the Ocean: A Naval History of Britain, Vol 2: 1649-1815 #FridayReads

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The Primary Source now has a fedi-bot! Follow @primarysourcebot for news & resources that help you find & use Australian #GLAM collections (that's #galleries, #libraries, #archives, & #museums).

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NAM Rodger, The Safeguard of the Sea: A Naval History of Britain, Vol 1: 660-1649 #FridayReads #SaturdayReads

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At Airminded: 1BoB+ https://airminded.org/2025/01/15/1bob/

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Gordon Campbell, Norse America: The Story of a Founding Myth; Lightspeed 176; Caroline Dodds Pennock, On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe #FridayReads

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Clarkesworld 220; Eddie Jaku, The Happiest Man on Earth: A Holocaust Survivor Shares how He Found Gratitude, Kindness and Hope in the Darkest of Places #FridayReads

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Robin Prior @rpriory.bsky.social, Conquer We Must: A Military History of Britain 1914-1945; Jonathan Strahan (ed), New Adventures in Space Opera #FridayReads

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At Airminded: Looking for the mothership https://airminded.org/2024/12/17/looking-for-the-mothership/

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At Airminded: What I did in my holidays (sightseeing) – Portsmouth, Woking, Brighton https://airminded.org/2024/12/08/what-i-did-in-my-holidays-sightseeing-portsmouth-woking-brighton/

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Clarkesworld 219; Ilan Pappe, A Very Short History of the Israel–Palestine Conflict #FridayReads

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At Airminded: Civil defence from below https://airminded.org/2024/12/06/civil-defence-from-below/

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George Alec Effinger, The Exile Kiss; Rashid Khalidi, The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonial Conquest and Resistance #FridayReads

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Dear men, what is preventing you from looking like this?

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Clarkesworld (@clarkesworldmagazine.com) 218; Frank Dikötter, China After Mao: The Rise of a Superpower; HyphenPunk Fall 2024 #FridayReads

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that's a hard yeah nah from me https://pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/8-reasons-not-to-be-afraid-of-president-trump-2.0?in_c=topstoryblock_2

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Just submitted my abstract for AAEH 2025! If you’re an NZ or Australian historian of Europe, get on it, submissions close on 30 Nov https://www.aaeh2025.com/

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Vaudine England, Fortune's Bazaar: The Making of Hong Kong #FridayReads

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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ac4E_UsmB1g

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timeline cleanse: Carl Sagan saying “Eratosthenes” https://youtu.be/G8cbIWMv0rI?si=V4gc4rC56SKoIVTF&t=64

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Just had a fun chat with ABC Far North about Australia’s airship history, including colonial airships, phantom airships, racist airships, imperial airships, commercial airships, and alternate airships. Should air next Monday!

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At Airminded: What I did in my holidays (sightseeing) – London (2) https://airminded.org/2024/11/03/what-i-did-in-my-holidays-sightseeing-london-2/

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Vaudine England, Fortune's Bazaar: The Making of Hong Kong; Herodotus, The Histories (tr. Robin Waterfield); Jeff Vandermeer, Absolution #FridayReads

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The Bethnal Green Tube shelter disaster https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/explore-the-collection/stories/the-bethnal-green-tube-shelter-disaster/?utm_source=e-shot&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Campaign+2024_10_31_2

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"I cannot leave my wife if there is danger of an air raid, and what is more, I will not leave her" - Cambridge Daily News, 10 Feb 1916

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Peter Green, The Greco-Persian Wars #FridayReads

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Herodotus, The Histories (tr. Robin Waterfield); Charles Stross (@cstross), Quantum of Nightmares #FridayReads

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At Airminded: What I did in my holidays (sightseeing) – Conwy, Bath https://airminded.org/2024/10/12/what-i-did-in-my-holidays-sightseeing-conwy-bath/

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Clarkesworld 217; The Future Fire 2024.70; Duane W Roller, Ancient Geography: The Discovery of the World in Classical Greece and Rome #FridayReads

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Herodotus, The Histories (tr. Robin Waterfield) #FridayReads

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At Airminded: What I did in my holidays (sightseeing) – York, Liverpool https://airminded.org/2024/09/30/what-i-did-in-my-holidays-sightseeing-york-liverpool/

submitted 155 days ago • 0 comments

Joann Fletcher, The Story of Egypt; Adrian Tchaikovsky, Children of Memory #FridayReads

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At Airminded: What I did in my holidays (sightseeing) – London (1), Glasgow https://airminded.org/2024/09/22/what-i-did-in-my-holidays-sightseeing-london-1-glasgow/

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Alison Bashford, An Intimate History of Evolution: The Story of the Huxley Family #FridayReads

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My review of Michael Reeve, Bombardment, Public Safety and Resilience in English Coastal Communities during the First World War - free link for the first 50 clicks https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/QANVFZATXJCRXMVIK2N3/full?target=10.1080/19475020.2024.2404308

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Clarkesworld 216; Iwan Rhys Morus, How the Victorians Took Us to the Moon: The Story of the Nineteenth-Century Innovators Who Forged the Future; Uncanny Magazine Sep/Oct 2024 #FridayReads

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Rachel Chrastil, Bismarck's War: The Franco-Prussian War and the Making of Modern Europe #FridayReads

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Aurealis 173; Christopher Clark, Revolutionary Spring: Fighting for a New World 1848-1849; Clarkesworld 212 #FridayReads

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At Airminded: What I did in my holidays (research/sightseeing) https://airminded.org/2024/08/27/what-i-did-in-my-holidays-research-sightseeing/

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