Congratulations @edelemark.bsky.social for winning the @aaeh2025.bsky.social #AAEH2025 book prize

The opening of Balbo Avenue, Chicago, 1933.

#AviationCultures at #AAEH2025! Nick Carter (ACU) speaking on Italo Balbo and "difficult heritage"

Important opening session this morning to #AAEH2025.

Australasian Association for European History conference #AAEH2025 gets underway at Waipapa Taumata Rau University of Auckland.

STREET PATROLS Men Urged to Join Up as Wardens The Stoke-on-Trent Emergency Committee, who met to-day, ask us to give publicity to the fact that they deprecate the street patrols which have been operating for some time, and urge all those who are willing to help in this way to join as Civil Defence Service as Wardens. They will then be properly trained and make themselves really useful to the community.

Just finishing my #aaeh2025 paper on street patrols in WW1, and I've just found street patrols in WW2! Very clearly *not* the ARP, as they are encouraged to disband and join the official civil defence orgs instead. Fascinating. Evening Sentinel (Stoke-on-Trent), 26 Jul 1940

My #aaeh2025 talk and slides are done, except that I need to try and do a test run for timing. (I’ve been paranoid about this ever since the Zeppelinitis incident at the 2015 AAEH. But we won’t speak of that)

Map of Hull, 1915. Blue = street patrol locations, red = 6 Jun 1915 bomb falls, purple = air raid alert buzzers.

Map of Gloucester, 1916. Blue = home addresses of Patrol No. 2 members.

Map of Islington, 1917. Blue = home addresses of Civilian Night Patrol members (male). Yellow = home addresses of shelter stewards (female). Red = Holy Trinity Church.

Map of the Midlands showing places bombed during air raid of 31 Jan 1916. Colours represent individual Zeppelin targets.

Teaser maps for my #aaeh2025 talk next week: Hull 1915, Gloucester 1916, Islington 1917. Bonus! the Midlands, 31 Jan 1916

Civil defence from below Next July, the Australasian Association for European History (AAEH) conference is being held at the University of Auckland. My abstract having been accepted, it looks like I'll be going to New Zealand...

My #aaeh2025 paper is coming along! I have a first draft and I have another week in which to polish it. But I also have some decisions to make about which parts of the abstract I want to pretend I never wrote

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