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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renault champagne sign, new gretna, new jersey, 1978
January 13, 2026 at 11:36 AM
renault champagne sign, new gretna, new jersey, 1978
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Books to look forward to… (2026 edition) drrossmahoney.wordpress.com/2026/01/13/b... #airpowerhistory
Books to look forward to… (2026 edition)
Following on from last year’s post, here are some titles, in no particular order, that I am looking forward to being published this year. There is a clear American flavour to this selection, …
drrossmahoney.wordpress.com
January 13, 2026 at 11:38 AM
Books to look forward to… (2026 edition) drrossmahoney.wordpress.com/2026/01/13/b... #airpowerhistory
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Maybe i should buy myself some Lego to support the Danish defence 🤔
January 13, 2026 at 10:26 AM
Maybe i should buy myself some Lego to support the Danish defence 🤔
"ULTRA HI-RES FRACTAL
PATTERNS ON BRILLIANT
SATIN NECKTIES!!!!"
PATTERNS ON BRILLIANT
SATIN NECKTIES!!!!"
January 13, 2026 at 11:50 AM
"ULTRA HI-RES FRACTAL
PATTERNS ON BRILLIANT
SATIN NECKTIES!!!!"
PATTERNS ON BRILLIANT
SATIN NECKTIES!!!!"
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The official explanation they’re apparently going with here is that they aren’t 100% convinced that breathing soot and ozone is actually bad for you.
Breaking News: The EPA will stop considering lives saved when setting pollution limits and instead calculate only the cost to businesses.
E.P.A. to Stop Considering Lives Saved by Limiting Air Pollution
In a reversal, the agency plans to calculate only the cost to industry when setting pollution limits, and not the monetary value of saving human lives, documents show.
nyti.ms
January 12, 2026 at 7:48 PM
The official explanation they’re apparently going with here is that they aren’t 100% convinced that breathing soot and ozone is actually bad for you.
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Can i borrow a feeling?
January 13, 2026 at 11:10 AM
Can i borrow a feeling?
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I started watching Abbott's 'Australia: A History' so you wouldn't have to. But I switched it off in deep discomfort when he literally chortled about how our modern country demonstrates the success of penal rehab. What an insult to the many who suffered or died. 💔
January 13, 2026 at 10:26 AM
I started watching Abbott's 'Australia: A History' so you wouldn't have to. But I switched it off in deep discomfort when he literally chortled about how our modern country demonstrates the success of penal rehab. What an insult to the many who suffered or died. 💔
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While I love my niche stupid hobby of historical board gaming, sometimes it does just make me want to scream. Take the latest example, a board game about the Irish Potato Famine where you get to compete with friends to see who survives best (?)
www.kickstarter.com/projects/com...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/com...
The Great Hunger
Easy-to-learn, card-driven game, rich with historical detail; explores 19th-century Irish expansion, blight, famine, & emigration. 2-5P
www.kickstarter.com
January 13, 2026 at 9:15 AM
While I love my niche stupid hobby of historical board gaming, sometimes it does just make me want to scream. Take the latest example, a board game about the Irish Potato Famine where you get to compete with friends to see who survives best (?)
www.kickstarter.com/projects/com...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/com...
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The ABC News headline writer is doing an outstanding job of minimising any criticism of Israel.
• The headline: Israel limits aid
• The report: the Israeli Govt is refusing to allow caravans, temporary housing or building materials into the strip. #IsraeliTerrorism #GazaGenocide
• The headline: Israel limits aid
• The report: the Israeli Govt is refusing to allow caravans, temporary housing or building materials into the strip. #IsraeliTerrorism #GazaGenocide
January 13, 2026 at 10:05 AM
The ABC News headline writer is doing an outstanding job of minimising any criticism of Israel.
• The headline: Israel limits aid
• The report: the Israeli Govt is refusing to allow caravans, temporary housing or building materials into the strip. #IsraeliTerrorism #GazaGenocide
• The headline: Israel limits aid
• The report: the Israeli Govt is refusing to allow caravans, temporary housing or building materials into the strip. #IsraeliTerrorism #GazaGenocide
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Peg Fyfe is a shadowy figure of East Riding folklore, remembered variously as a 17th/18th century bandit queen, witch, or leader of a notorious gang. Said to haunt the Wolds around Market Weighton, her legend centres on horse theft, violence, and the cruel flaying of a
January 13, 2026 at 11:28 AM
Peg Fyfe is a shadowy figure of East Riding folklore, remembered variously as a 17th/18th century bandit queen, witch, or leader of a notorious gang. Said to haunt the Wolds around Market Weighton, her legend centres on horse theft, violence, and the cruel flaying of a
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"I'm sorry you misinterpreted what we were saying," is not an apology
January 13, 2026 at 7:37 AM
"I'm sorry you misinterpreted what we were saying," is not an apology
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UKIP adopting an iron cross is definitely a choice but let's not let it overshadow the fact that the Libertarian party now have an image of a gryphon with a chainsaw
January 13, 2026 at 9:36 AM
UKIP adopting an iron cross is definitely a choice but let's not let it overshadow the fact that the Libertarian party now have an image of a gryphon with a chainsaw
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This is just incredible.
January 13, 2026 at 9:41 AM
This is just incredible.
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👀
Ukip have submitted a new logo and slogan to the Electoral Commission, swapping the £ pound sterling symbol for a cross, that looks very much like it is modelled on the Iron Cross used by Prussia & Germany 1871-1918 and Hitler's Nazi regime from 1933-45
January 13, 2026 at 9:29 AM
👀
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Taking a break from posts about Magic Rays of Light, I am delighted to highlight another article of mine that has just been published in the latest edition of VIEW: Journal of European Television and Culture.
www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk/returning-to...
www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk/returning-to...
Returning to Coventry Cathedral - Illuminations
John Wyver writes: Taking a break from posts about Magic Rays of Light, I am delighted to highlight another article of mine that has just been published in the latest edition of VIEW: Journal of Europ...
www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk
January 13, 2026 at 7:44 AM
Taking a break from posts about Magic Rays of Light, I am delighted to highlight another article of mine that has just been published in the latest edition of VIEW: Journal of European Television and Culture.
www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk/returning-to...
www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk/returning-to...
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The problem with is "One of us, all of you" discourse is not that ICE sucks, or that the Trump administration does like Nazi stuff and white supremacy.
It's that, as far as I can tell, the Nazis did not, in fact, use that phrase.
It's that, as far as I can tell, the Nazis did not, in fact, use that phrase.
January 13, 2026 at 9:50 AM
The problem with is "One of us, all of you" discourse is not that ICE sucks, or that the Trump administration does like Nazi stuff and white supremacy.
It's that, as far as I can tell, the Nazis did not, in fact, use that phrase.
It's that, as far as I can tell, the Nazis did not, in fact, use that phrase.
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Halifax MZ465 MH-Y hit Halifax LL590 L8-L over France #OTD 13 Jan 1945, losing a nine foot section of the nose and killing the navigator Thomas S H Whitehouse and air bomber David Hauber. Three were killed on board LL590. MZ465 landed at RAF Ford in Sussex. #History @ibccdigitalarchive.bsky.social
January 13, 2026 at 9:49 AM
Halifax MZ465 MH-Y hit Halifax LL590 L8-L over France #OTD 13 Jan 1945, losing a nine foot section of the nose and killing the navigator Thomas S H Whitehouse and air bomber David Hauber. Three were killed on board LL590. MZ465 landed at RAF Ford in Sussex. #History @ibccdigitalarchive.bsky.social
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this is the funniest thing i’ve ever read. isaac chotiner interviews a resident of the town from the lottery.
archiveofourown.org/works/73396436
archiveofourown.org/works/73396436
Why one small American town won’t stop stoning its residents to death - Charlotte_Stant - The Lottery - Shirley Jackson [Archive of Our Own]
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
archiveofourown.org
January 11, 2026 at 3:05 AM
this is the funniest thing i’ve ever read. isaac chotiner interviews a resident of the town from the lottery.
archiveofourown.org/works/73396436
archiveofourown.org/works/73396436
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I don't need to imagine anything, Petey
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/3/...
www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/1/...
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/3/...
www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/1/...
January 13, 2026 at 7:13 AM
I don't need to imagine anything, Petey
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/3/...
www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/1/...
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/3/...
www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/1/...
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It's "culturally unsafe" to have a Palestinian Aus author advocate against the systematic slaughter of hundreds of thousands of her people, but it's
"a good thing" for the president of apartheid Israel, which has committed daily massacres and mass starvation for 2yrs, to visit us. Unbearably racist.
"a good thing" for the president of apartheid Israel, which has committed daily massacres and mass starvation for 2yrs, to visit us. Unbearably racist.
January 13, 2026 at 6:04 AM
It's "culturally unsafe" to have a Palestinian Aus author advocate against the systematic slaughter of hundreds of thousands of her people, but it's
"a good thing" for the president of apartheid Israel, which has committed daily massacres and mass starvation for 2yrs, to visit us. Unbearably racist.
"a good thing" for the president of apartheid Israel, which has committed daily massacres and mass starvation for 2yrs, to visit us. Unbearably racist.
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The Department of Homeland Security spent an eight figure sum to buy what they believe is a Havana Syndrome device (lol)
January 13, 2026 at 5:56 AM
The Department of Homeland Security spent an eight figure sum to buy what they believe is a Havana Syndrome device (lol)
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'Authorising'
Florida Rep Randy Fine has introduced a bill authorising Trump to annexe Greenland and set it on a pathway to becoming America's 51st state.
January 13, 2026 at 7:06 AM
'Authorising'
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RIP Erich von Däniken - except of course no mere Swiss hotel manager could possibly write books that sloppily reasoned, so they are clearly the work of aliens
January 13, 2026 at 6:10 AM
RIP Erich von Däniken - except of course no mere Swiss hotel manager could possibly write books that sloppily reasoned, so they are clearly the work of aliens
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Well, would you look at this? I spotted a P-8 Poseidon — which is a modified 737 airframe — with no reg # coming out of dark mode in flight data I posted the day of the first boat strike.
January 13, 2026 at 4:55 AM
Well, would you look at this? I spotted a P-8 Poseidon — which is a modified 737 airframe — with no reg # coming out of dark mode in flight data I posted the day of the first boat strike.