Cottonreels for Miss Rose
2023 – Week 5 Cottonreels for Miss Rose It is a unique cover to Miss Rose on the Blankenburg plantation in Demerara, franked with a pair of primitive 4c first…
Hero(ines) in Wilhelmine Germany
2023 – Week 4 Hero(ines) in Wilhelmine Germany Did bourgeois nationalism in Wilhelmine Germany displace women? At least not in the care of the wounded and sick. For this purpose,…
A Vickers Vimy, G-EAOU (nicknamed curiously “God ‘elp all of us”) landed on bamboo mats and the pilots were knighted
2023 – Week 3 A Vickers Vimy, G-EAOU (nicknamed curiously "God 'elp all of us") landed on bamboo mats and the pilots were knighted On 12 November 1919, Captain Ross…
The Margrave’s water landing
2023 – Week 2 The Margrave's water landing Marquis Francesco de Pinedo (1890-1933) was a famous Italian pilot. In February 1927, De Pinedo and his co-pilot Carlo del Prete started…