{"id":158,"date":"2017-05-31T12:02:03","date_gmt":"2017-05-31T12:02:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/srfb\/?p=158"},"modified":"2017-05-31T12:02:03","modified_gmt":"2017-05-31T12:02:03","slug":"signing-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/tdby\/2017\/05\/31\/signing-off\/","title":{"rendered":"Signing off&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It totals 175,890 words, and it took four years to write, off and on (and a considerable part of those four years was &#8216;off&#8217;), but <em>The Man Who Built The Swordfish: the Life of Sir Richard Fairey, 1887-1956<\/em> is finally written.\u00a0 The next stage is compiling the bibliography and selecting the photographs, after which I must wrestle with the technological challenge that is preparing camera-ready copy.\u00a0 As regular readers of this blog will have long since ascertained, researching and writing Fairey&#8217;s biography has been a challenging and not always happy experience (unhappy largely because of factors unrelated to the task in hand).\u00a0 Working with his daughter and grand-daughter, Jane Tennant and Esther Bellamy, was always a pleasurable and rewarding experience &#8211; getting to know Jane, Esther, and their extended family has been a privilege and a real pleasure for Mary and myself.\u00a0 Unless there is a dramatic change of plan the book will be published by I.B. Tauris early in 2018.\u00a0 I anticipate the launch party, hosted by the Fairey family,\u00a0will be a grand affair (the RAF Club would be an ideal venue), but all that is in the future.\u00a0 For the present it&#8217;s time to thank the modest readership of this blog, and to sign off.\u00a0 It&#8217;s not the first time in this blog that I&#8217;ve quoted the Grateful Dead &#8211; what a long strange trip it&#8217;s been&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It totals 175,890 words, and it took four years to write, off and on (and a considerable part of those four years was &#8216;off&#8217;), but The Man Who Built The Swordfish: the Life of Sir Richard Fairey, 1887-1956 is finally written.\u00a0 The next stage is compiling the bibliography and selecting the photographs, after which I &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link block-button\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/tdby\/2017\/05\/31\/signing-off\/\">Continue reading &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53565,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/tdby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/tdby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/tdby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/tdby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/53565"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/tdby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/tdby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":159,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/tdby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions\/159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/tdby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/tdby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/tdby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}