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I've quite liked Adrian Goldsworthy's line for a lack of sources that he's used a few times in his new Athens and Sparta book, describing it as "a poverty of sources".

Me, with day job hat on working for RX Global who put on LBF: 👏

Me the rest of the time: 🤦

Why can't we get past the celebrity book/podcast/lifestyle brand BS? Why?!?!

Is this the next iconic piece of airport art?

A first look at the new split flap display art bound for the new Terminal 1 at New York’s JFK Airport.

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the most thoroughly vindicated man in hollywood.

trade disputes and conspiracies ✔️

republic subverted over sex hangups ✔️

“sand people” killed, royalty indifferent ✔️

naive idiot casts vote for tyranny ✔️

villains with silly names like “dooku” ✔️

powerful clerical order screwing up ✔️

list goes on

This was so much fun! @abbottkahler.bsky.social is one of my favourite authors, and it was a delight to chat to her again for a book that ranks at the top of my muttering WTF as I read list.

#histbookchat #booksky

A brilliant, devastating response to Grammarly et al by @moryan.bsky.social that you really should read.

I love reading all the words that come from this "underpaid, deeply creative heart".

With a namedrop for @tealcartoons.bsky.social!

RAF CLUB - THE PR LINK

The RAF Club at 128 Piccadilly is well known to those serving, those who have served, and those associated with the RAF, but it has an interesting link to wartime PR.

Opening in January 1922 but with its roots firmly set back in January 1917, the club has

come through highs and lows over the decades. But historically within these walls something occurred that links it to our project. Who knows what this might be?

Answer at 2000 GMT…

And the answer is…

Founder of the PDU Sidney Cotton used the club as a remote office as he found his way into the necessary departments he needed to work with to get RAF reconnaissance to where it needed to be. In one meeting with then Vickers-Armstrong Assistant Test Pilot Alex Henshaw,

No, you're just late to the party, mate.

Andrew O’Hagan · Stay Classy: Mummy’s Favourite The late queen can be held responsible for much, but nobody could accuse her of seeming to enjoy her role. For the...

A savage, magnificent, virtuosic and unlikely to be surpassed evisceration of "Mummy's Favourite".

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Cover of the catalogue of 'Jacob's Christmas Specialties, 1939'. The cover is textured cream card with orange and chocolate brown trim, and gold embossed text in a modernist style. In the top right corner is a gold embossed emblem featuring a mediaeval herald in a quartered tunic holding a trumpet in one hand, and in the other a tray of delicacies

Parents are currently working through a mass of material from deceased family on my mother's side. Loads of fascinating, historical stuff but my attention was caught by this lavish catalogue from 1939 for the Jacob's Christmas range

ps You can see the full list of authors involved at dontstealthisbook.com

Today, we're publishing Don't Steal This Book - a (mostly) empty book from almost 10,000 authors, protesting the theft of their work by AI companies.

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A graphic showing the paperback Don't Steal This Book: A Plea from Authors.

AI companies build their products by copying millions of books without permission or payment. We are urging the UK government to rule out legalising this large-scale theft.

We – along with almost 10,000 authors – are supporting #DontStealThisBook.

Find out more here: www.dontstealthisbook.com/

Well, it was fun while it lasted.

Alex Butterfield was Admin for the FAA after leaving the Nixon WH. He was forced out after the horrific Turkish Air crash near Paris that revealed a critical fault in the DC10. Butterfield pushed for changes at the FAA which did not go over well with DOT.

He was, for sure, a fascinating man.

I can't compete with this.

Bring it! 🖖

Great book, the Arrow chapters are brilliant.

On International Women's Day (IWD), celebrating all female space explorers, including Helen Sharman and her bold, gutsy, and record breaking journey to the Mir Space Station in May 1991. We were lucky enough to talk to Helen in the July and September issues of "Odyssey" last year; a real privilege.

Me holding a square book called why space will freak you out. The cover makes space features like planets and galaxies look almost like a skeleton

Oh and I checked the post and I got this fun book by @mwatzke.bsky.social and Dr Kimberly Arkand!!

Reuniting the Cast and Crew of BBC Radio 4's Bomber | Podcast YouTube video by The Aviation Show

Jonathan Ruffle recorded the interviews used in Bomber, most of them are on his website.

We discussed them at length during our reunion episode.

youtu.be/JC3MHL2gRUQ

Check Out These Photos of a “Naked” B-1 Bomber Venting Fuel During a Functional Check Flight The B-1B is the Lancer 86-0115 "Rage" regenerated from the Boneyard to be returned to active service, during a post-depot functional check flight. On Feb.

Check Out These Photos of a “Naked” B-1 Bomber Venting Fuel During a Functional Check Flight

The B-1B is the Lancer 86-0115 “Rage” regenerated from the Boneyard to be returned to active service, during a post-depot functional check flight.

Story: theaviationist.com/2026/03/07/b...

To say Jerrie Cobb led a life is an understatement.

When @maryhaverstick.bsky.social started working on a film project with Jerrie, the rabbit hole got deeper and darker.

Check out our chat with Mary about her incredible book, A Woman I Know.

youtu.be/pYHrbpVq6BE

#avgheek #booksky #histbookchat

B-17 Pilot Remembers the Mighty 8th's First Raid on Berlin | The Aviation Show Clips YouTube video by The Aviation Show

#OTD in 1944, the 8th Air Force flew Mission 250 to the heart of Berlin for the first time.

One of the pilots was Dick Bushong of the 390th BG, and a couple of years ago, I asked him about the mission. I'm pleased to say that Dick is still with us and is approaching 103!

youtu.be/FXgytMQ0oSI

B-17 Pilot Remembers the Mighty 8th's First Raid on Berlin | The Aviation Show Clips YouTube video by The Aviation Show

#OTD in 1944, the 8th Air Force flew Mission 250 to the heart of Berlin for the first time.

One of the pilots was Dick Bushong of the 390th BG, and a couple of years ago, I asked him about the mission. I'm pleased to say that Dick is still with us and is approaching 103!

youtu.be/FXgytMQ0oSI

A fake horse made of wood, one of a menagerie of fake animals dotted around the freshly liberated B-78 aerodrome at Eindhoven in 1944. Image: Harry Hardy Family.

I think it was a process of elimination. They had a horse too...