Before plunging back into 1914 centenary activities I finally had an extended period of work back on Fairey, with a fair old chunk of chapter one now written – my man is just about to commence his premium apprenticeship at Jandus, a company in Holloway that manufactured arc lights under licence from America, with complementary …
Monthly Archive: June 2014
Jun 09
Best laid plans…
Even before getting home from running the marathon in Boston and then visiting my faculty’s partner institution in Ontario, Huron University College/Western University (a vast campus on the edge of London, a city far larger than I had envisaged located at the very heart of Anglophone Canada), I was aware that my plans for a swift return to Fairey would …
Adrian Smith, Emeritus Professor of Modern History, University of Southampton
