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(1) GASBAGS OF DEATH. Let Michael Moorcock tell you all about "The hubris of the great airship designers", in his review of His Majesty’s Airship: The Life and Tragic Death of the World’s Largest Flying Machine by S.C. Gwynne. Behind a paywall at Spectator. …The airship race of the 1920s and 1930s carried that familiar

Word association with “airship” probably yields responses ranging from “Goodyear Blimp” to “Hindenburg.” Perhaps there’s also a vague sense that airships had their greatest run in popularity during the early

Important note: we have resumed accepting interlibrary loan requests. With students returning to school, one topic is especially timely to discuss: the incredible value of children reading at home. Young children whose parents read them five books a day enter kindergarten having heard about 1.4 million more words than kids who were never read to, […]

Author S.C. Gwynne explains it all.

In “His Majesty’s Airship,” S.C. Gwynne tells of the doomed dirigible R101, and the man behind a disaster.