Brett Holman
@airminded.org
Independent PhD historian (aviation, bombing; #WW1, #WW2; Britain, Australia; emotions, spectacle); books (Home Fires Burning (WW1 air raids on Britain; in progress), The Next War in the Air). Naarm/Melbourne, Australia. He/him. airminded.org
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Brett Holman
@airminded.org
· Nov 10
The Next War in the Air
Brett Holman. The Next War in the Air: Britain's Fear of the Bomber, 1908-1941. Farnham and Burlington: Ashgate, 2014. The Next War in the Air: Britain's Fear of the Bomber, 1908-1941 is my first book...
airminded.org
Hi! I’m a historian of early 20th century Britain and Australia. I study the cultural and emotional history of aviation, interested in what people thought and felt about aircraft as much, or even more than, what aircraft actually did. My first book was on the fear of bombing in Britain
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Hi-Res Adventure #2: The Wizard and the Princess (C64, 1982)
November 16, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Hi-Res Adventure #2: The Wizard and the Princess (C64, 1982)
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Chat, is "the rich are doing the 'fox' hunts again where the fox is a person" a recession indicator www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
‘Are they going to eat me alive?’: trail runners become prey in newest form of hunting
Nervous reporter is chased across English countryside by baying bloodhounds, in what could soon be only legal way to hunt with dogs
www.theguardian.com
November 15, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Chat, is "the rich are doing the 'fox' hunts again where the fox is a person" a recession indicator www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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Movie time...a great bad movie!
November 16, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Movie time...a great bad movie!
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The emails have Summers reporting to Epstein about his attempts to date a Harvard economics student & to hit on her during a seminar she was giving.
November 15, 2025 at 9:48 PM
The emails have Summers reporting to Epstein about his attempts to date a Harvard economics student & to hit on her during a seminar she was giving.
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The MSM has helped to normalize the idea that Americans can and should just go to war with whomever the President feels like on any given day.
Louis XIV had to offer more justification for his belligerence than Trump does.
Louis XIV had to offer more justification for his belligerence than Trump does.
I can’t remember a plausibly threatened invasion by the US that has received less attention and alarm by the press.
November 16, 2025 at 12:19 AM
The MSM has helped to normalize the idea that Americans can and should just go to war with whomever the President feels like on any given day.
Louis XIV had to offer more justification for his belligerence than Trump does.
Louis XIV had to offer more justification for his belligerence than Trump does.
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If you're interested in hearing more about what I've been doing during my #slvresidency, I'll be giving a talk at 1pm on 3 December in the Library's Create Quarter.
November 16, 2025 at 12:22 AM
If you're interested in hearing more about what I've been doing during my #slvresidency, I'll be giving a talk at 1pm on 3 December in the Library's Create Quarter.
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Me to journal editors
November 15, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Me to journal editors
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AUTOMAN takes off, 1983.
November 15, 2025 at 11:52 PM
AUTOMAN takes off, 1983.
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not bad for a first version of the cover for what will (eventually) be the #othernetworks #zine
November 15, 2025 at 10:02 PM
not bad for a first version of the cover for what will (eventually) be the #othernetworks #zine
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'[T]here is evidence that items may have been acquired in the aftermath of ‘dispersals’ – the common euphemism used to downplay punitive actions often resulting in the indiscriminate killing of Indigenous Australians.'
#history #academic #research
#history #academic #research
November 15, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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Now open: call for the Royal Historical Society's First Book and Early Career Article Prizes, 2026.
Eligible titles, published in 2025, may be submitted by the author before the closing date of 15 December. Further details and how to apply: bit.ly/3KnR47v
#Skystorians
Eligible titles, published in 2025, may be submitted by the author before the closing date of 15 December. Further details and how to apply: bit.ly/3KnR47v
#Skystorians
Royal Historical Society Book and Article Prizes, 2026: submissions now invited - RHS
The Royal Historical Society invites applications for its First Book Prize, 2026 and Early Career Article Prize, 2026. The call for submissions opens on Monday 29 September 2025 and runs to Monday 15 ...
bit.ly
November 14, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Now open: call for the Royal Historical Society's First Book and Early Career Article Prizes, 2026.
Eligible titles, published in 2025, may be submitted by the author before the closing date of 15 December. Further details and how to apply: bit.ly/3KnR47v
#Skystorians
Eligible titles, published in 2025, may be submitted by the author before the closing date of 15 December. Further details and how to apply: bit.ly/3KnR47v
#Skystorians
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Unidentified group of soldiers during Federation celebrations in Sydney in 1901
October 16, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Unidentified group of soldiers during Federation celebrations in Sydney in 1901
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Post your favorite Star Trek character. Wrong answers only.
November 15, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Post your favorite Star Trek character. Wrong answers only.
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It was hard to step away from the beignets @ this afternoon's coffee break, but I'm back in Borgne for a panel on 19th & 20th c. #astronomy.
Our first speaker, Janna Mueller, is presenting a talk on "The Dark Sides of the Sun" (Of course, there is no dark side in the sun, really...) #HSS2025
Our first speaker, Janna Mueller, is presenting a talk on "The Dark Sides of the Sun" (Of course, there is no dark side in the sun, really...) #HSS2025
November 15, 2025 at 10:07 PM
It was hard to step away from the beignets @ this afternoon's coffee break, but I'm back in Borgne for a panel on 19th & 20th c. #astronomy.
Our first speaker, Janna Mueller, is presenting a talk on "The Dark Sides of the Sun" (Of course, there is no dark side in the sun, really...) #HSS2025
Our first speaker, Janna Mueller, is presenting a talk on "The Dark Sides of the Sun" (Of course, there is no dark side in the sun, really...) #HSS2025
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You know, I'm getting the impression this #MorganMcSweeney chappy may not be a genius after all....
BBC News - 'Head in hands': Labour ministers fume at No 10's self-inflicted chaos - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
BBC News - 'Head in hands': Labour ministers fume at No 10's self-inflicted chaos - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
'Head in hands': Labour ministers fume at No 10's self-inflicted chaos
Misshaps of their own making overshadow important things the government has to do, writes Laura Kuenssberg.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 15, 2025 at 10:20 PM
You know, I'm getting the impression this #MorganMcSweeney chappy may not be a genius after all....
BBC News - 'Head in hands': Labour ministers fume at No 10's self-inflicted chaos - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
BBC News - 'Head in hands': Labour ministers fume at No 10's self-inflicted chaos - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Alan Dershowitz is one of those claiming Epstein was not a pedophile because he pleaded guilty to one count of having sex for money with a 17-year-and-10-month-old person. "That’s not a pedophile." See this important response from Julia Brown, the brave reporter who broke the news on this
November 15, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Alan Dershowitz is one of those claiming Epstein was not a pedophile because he pleaded guilty to one count of having sex for money with a 17-year-and-10-month-old person. "That’s not a pedophile." See this important response from Julia Brown, the brave reporter who broke the news on this
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going to beg trump to tariff podcast equipment to keep it out of the hands of these brain dead degenerates
"Nekrasova has made controversial statements in the past. In a 2023 New Yorker story, she was quoted as saying, “Francis is not the real Pope, we all know it. … You’re not gonna get rid of the Freemasons. You’re not gonna get rid of the Jews. They infiltrated the Church a long time ago.”"
Gersh Drops ‘Succession’ Actress Dasha Nekrasova After Podcast With White Nationalist Nick Fuentes
"Succession" actress Dasha Nekrasova has been fired by her talent agency, Gersh, after a podcast featured white nationalist Nick Fuentes.
variety.com
November 15, 2025 at 4:07 PM
going to beg trump to tariff podcast equipment to keep it out of the hands of these brain dead degenerates
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[November 15th, 1945] Colorful covers of today's mid-month magazines
November 15, 2025 at 7:30 PM
[November 15th, 1945] Colorful covers of today's mid-month magazines
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Post your favorite Star Trek character. Wrong answers only.
November 15, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Post your favorite Star Trek character. Wrong answers only.
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The Hawker Hind. A light bomber of the 1930s. Armed with guns, bombs...
... and Eeyore.
... and Eeyore.
November 15, 2025 at 2:51 PM
The Hawker Hind. A light bomber of the 1930s. Armed with guns, bombs...
... and Eeyore.
... and Eeyore.
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OK, so a title's a start, yes? That blank white space below will just fill itself up if I go away and do something like build tiny mechs out of Lego, yes?
Yes?
Yes?
November 15, 2025 at 7:35 PM
OK, so a title's a start, yes? That blank white space below will just fill itself up if I go away and do something like build tiny mechs out of Lego, yes?
Yes?
Yes?
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To reiterate, this is about making life immeasurably more miserable and stressful for some of the most vulnerable people, in the almost certainly vain hope of winning over the votes of racists.
Anything more shabby and shameful is difficult to envisage.
Anything more shabby and shameful is difficult to envisage.
Asylum in UK to be made temporary under Home Secretary’s plans
Shabana Mahmood will lay out reforms modelled on the Danish system on Monday.
www.independent.co.uk
November 15, 2025 at 9:14 AM
To reiterate, this is about making life immeasurably more miserable and stressful for some of the most vulnerable people, in the almost certainly vain hope of winning over the votes of racists.
Anything more shabby and shameful is difficult to envisage.
Anything more shabby and shameful is difficult to envisage.
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The ghouls—all of them, Labour too—talk about "contribution" …
November 15, 2025 at 7:40 PM
The ghouls—all of them, Labour too—talk about "contribution" …
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it's fascinating that you can see when exactly the Reagan revolution happened
November 15, 2025 at 6:39 PM
it's fascinating that you can see when exactly the Reagan revolution happened
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Here is my commentary about this embarrassing and disturbing decision by the Trump administration to censor American history at a cemetery in the Netherlands. kevinmlevin.substack.com/p/a-tale-of-...
November 15, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Here is my commentary about this embarrassing and disturbing decision by the Trump administration to censor American history at a cemetery in the Netherlands. kevinmlevin.substack.com/p/a-tale-of-...