Brett Holman
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Brett Holman
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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 progress), The Next War in the Air). Naarm/Melbourne, Australia. He/him. airminded.org
Stop scrolling and post two characters that bring you happiness
January 14, 2026 at 4:13 AM
"the server is out of the room for what that means"… ???
January 12, 2026 at 8:17 PM
- be a 1989 person
- realise that the paper magazine is doomed b/c of the Japanese somehow
- get excited for the paperless magazine. get excited for VidScan™
- stand by my VCR with my finger hovering over the freeze frame button on the remote
- wait 37 years
- …
- ok maybe next year
January 12, 2026 at 5:11 AM
Readings, Carlton #HistBookChat
January 6, 2026 at 4:29 AM
Melbourne Museum #HistBookChat
January 6, 2026 at 4:27 AM
The first game I was ever into (but was never any good at)
January 5, 2026 at 10:52 PM
Dymocks, Melbourne CBD #HistBookChat
January 2, 2026 at 6:56 AM
On Wednesdays We Wear Black 🖤🎉
December 31, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Avenue Bookstore, Albert Park #HistBookChat
December 31, 2025 at 4:47 AM
December 28, 2025 at 7:50 AM
post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't nirvana, pearl jam, soundgarden, or alice in chains
December 28, 2025 at 12:47 AM
December 26, 2025 at 11:19 PM
The Mark Peel discussed here as the compiler of a database of British civilian casualties in WW2 would appear to be the same Mark Peel who is a notable Australian historian, whose academic work had nothing to do with the Blitz, bombing or war at all, afaict. Fascinated by this trajectory
December 26, 2025 at 9:46 AM
submitted for your consideration
December 18, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Kobo
December 17, 2025 at 9:27 AM
December 15, 2025 at 2:11 AM
December 11, 2025 at 10:01 AM
It's this one
December 11, 2025 at 4:50 AM
In 1913 a phantom airship buzzed the trawler Othello and circled it twice before flying off

airminded.org/2013/03/05/w...
December 5, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Braudel in the archives: EXTREMELY relatable
November 30, 2025 at 2:58 AM
Key scene in Brief Encounter (1945), most film critics don’t understand this
November 29, 2025 at 5:25 AM
Post something random
November 27, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Introduce yourself in four spaceships
November 26, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Ha, you're exactly right
November 26, 2025 at 3:38 AM
OK, I give up. Anyone have any idea what this is supposed to read? They're from the same document, initials from the context but seem to be stylised/overlapping
November 26, 2025 at 2:45 AM