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Drones and atomic bombs
I’ve had my head down these past few weeks writing the long-form version of ‘Little Boys and Blue Skies’ (see here and here for preliminary notes), and en route I’ve been doing some more digging into...
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Hersey Wars
I have very nearly finished the long-form version of ‘Little Boys and Blue Skies‘ (really), and en route I’ve re-read John Hersey‘s stunning essay on Hiroshima that took up a whole issue of the New...
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Occupied Paris
I try to make sure all of my lectures are up-to-date each year, but this term I’ve added some completely new ones to my course on Cities, space and power. One of them – which I gave last week – is on...
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Modern War and Dead Cities
I’ve provided the pdf of the (unedited) slides for another new lecture in my Cities, space and power course under the TEACHING tab: it’s on bombing cities in the First and Second World Wars. There’s...
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The Unconscious Life of Bombs
Last month I did a long interview with Daniel Pick for a BBC Radio 4 documentary, The Unconscious Life of Bombs. It’s now been broadcast, and you can listen to the whole thing here. Historian and...
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War Stories
New books on the radar: Gary Fields, Enclosure: Palestinian landscapes in a historical mirror (California, September 2017): Enclosure marshals bold new arguments about the nature of the conflict in...
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The slow violence of bombing
When I spoke at the symposium on ‘The Intimacies of Remote Warfare’ in Utrecht before Christmas, one of my central arguments was about the slow violence of bombing. The term is, of course, Rob...
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Cities and War
This week the Guardian launched a new series on Cities and War: War is urbanising. No longer fought on beaches or battlefields, conflict has come to the doors of millions living in densely populated...
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Cinematic Corpographies
News from Eileen Rositzka of her new book, Cinematic Corpographies: Re-Mapping the War Film Through the Body. We’ve been corresponding since she started work on the project at St Andrews (she’s now...
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Bombing Britain
Ages ago, as part of my research on bombing, I drew attention to Bomb Sight a remarkable digital mapping project that provided a detailed spatial inventory of the Blitz in London in 1940-41. At long...
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