As I’m treading water before diving down into the research and writing of my chapter on the final decade of Sir Richard Fairey’s life, here is an observation and then a series of observations linked through aviation to the project but with no other connections. Firstly, am I alone in thinking that the opening lines …
Monthly Archive: September 2016
Sep 20
The final straight…
Having finished my [very long] chapter on Fairey and the Second World War in mid-August, and sent it out to members of the Fairey family and specialists in the field for comment, my involvement in the project has been fairly low key, i.e. other commitments have prevailed. So this constitutes a brief blog, simply to …
Adrian Smith, Emeritus Professor of Modern History, University of Southampton
