British Imperial Aviation Bibliography – author list
Gordon Pirie (compiler)
This 800-item bibliography comprises materials used in the course of writing my two monographs in the Manchester University Press’ series 'Studies in Imperialism' edited by Prof J M MacKenzie:
Air Empire: British Imperial Civil Aviation, 1919-1939 (2009, 256 pp, ISBN 978-0-7190-4111-2).
Cultures and Caricatures of British Imperial Flying: Passengers, Pilots, Publicity (2012, in press).
This bibliography only includes books and periodical articles. It excludes government reports.
Articles are cited from nearly 150 journals / magazines. Few are from major aviation industry periodicals such as The Aeroplane, Flight and the Imperial Airways Gazette. Articles from the London Times are not listed. These and similar sources are cited extensively in the two monographs, but mostly without named authors.
The listing is intended as a research aid and is not exhaustive.
Many of the most recent items particularly are contextual and are not solely about aviation.
August 2011
1 Abbott, P., Airship: the Story of R.34 (London: Studley, Brewin, 1994).
2 Adas, M., Machines as the Measure of Men: Science, Technology and Ideologies of Western Dominance (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1989).
3 Alcock, J. R. and A. W. Brown, Our Transatlantic Flight (London: Kimber, 1969).
4 Alcorn, A. L., 'Flying into modernity: model airplanes, consumer culture, and the making of modern boyhood in the early twentieth century', History and Technology, 25 (2009), 115-46.
5 Allen, C. and S. Dwivedi, Lives of the Indian Princes (London: Century, 1984).
6 Allen, O. E., The Airline Builders (Alexandria, VA: Time-Life Books, 1981).
7 Allen, R. E. H., 'Ground transport for an air organisation', Journal of the Royal Aeronautical Society, 32 (1928), 596-616.
8 Almond, P., Ninety Years of the Air League (London: Air League, 1999).
9 Al-Sayegh, F., 'Imperial Air Communications and British Policy Changes in the Trucial States, 1929-1952' (PhD thesis, University of Essex, 1989).
10 Amery, L. S., The Forward View (London: Geoffrey Bles, 1935).
11 Amery, L. S., My Political Life (Vol 2) (London: Hutchinson, 1953).
12 Anon, 'By air across Africa', Living Age, 340 (1931), 180-7.
13 Anon, 'Canada: 1. Aviation as an Imperial link', Round Table, 21 (1930/31), 635-44.
14 Anon, 'Flying over Africa', Living Age, 338 (1930), 362-9.
15 Anthony, S., ‘The Future's in the Air: Imperial Airways and the British documentary film movement’, Journal of British Cinema and Television, 8 (2011), 301-321.
16 Armstrong, W., Pioneer Pilot (London: Blandford, 1952).
17 Ashbolt, A. H., 'An imperial airship service', Journal of the Royal Society of Arts, 70 (1921), 102-21.
18 Ashbolt, A. H., 'Importance of airship communications', Empire Review, (1922), 192-4.
19 August, T. G., The Selling of the Empire: British and French Imperialist Propaganda, 1890-1940 (Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1985).
20 Avery, P., G. Hambly and C. Melville (eds), Cambridge History of Iran, Vol. 7 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991).
21 Bagnold, R. A., Libyan Sands 1935).
22 Bailes, K. E., Technology and Society under Lenin and Stalin: Origins of the Soviet Technical Intelligentsia, 1917-1941 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1978).
23 Baily, L., BBC Scrapbooks, vol 2, 1918-1939 (London: George Allen and Unwin, 1968).
24 Baker, C., 'Nyasaland at the aviation cross roads: Alan Cobham's flying-boat visit, 1928', Society of Malawi Journal, 44 (1991), 9-33.
25 Baker, C., Sir Glyn Jones: a ProConsul in Africa (London: I. B. Taurus, 2000).
26 Baldwin, N. C., Air Mails of British Africa, 1925-1932 Francis J. Field, 1933).
27 Baldwin, N. C., Imperial Airways (Sutton Coldfield: Francis J. Field, 1950).
28 Baldwin, S., On England (London: Philip Alan, 1926).
29 Balfour, P., Lords of the Equator (London: Hutchinson, 1939).
30 Bamberg, J. H., The History of the British Petroleum Company, Vol. 2 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994).
31 Bamford, J., Croissants at Croydon (Sutton: Sutton Libraries, 1986).
32 Bampfylde, B. W., 'Britain's role in Asian air transport', Journal of the Royal Central Asian Society, 51 (1964), 268-79.
33 Barnard, C. A., 'The airway to Australia', Air and Airways (1933), 5-6.
34 Barnes, L. K., 'A link in imperial communications', Journal of the Royal United Services Institute, (1936), 838-47.
35 Barnett, C., The Collapse of British Power (London: Eyre Methuen, 1972).
36 Barwick, R. E., 'The anatomy of an aircraft: a Warlpiri engraving', Aboriginal History, 6 (1982), 74-9.
37 Batten, J., My Life (London: George Harrap, 1938).
38 Bayly, C. (ed.), Atlas of the British Empire (New York: Facts on File, 1989).
39 Beinhorn, E., Flying Girl (London: Geoffrey Bles, 1935).
40 Bell, E. S., 'Dashing off to Baghdad: a sense of place in a piece of time', South Atlantic Review, 61 (1996), 39-52.
41 Benn, W. W., 'Air policy', English Review, 36 (1923), 244-50, 358-63.
42 Bennett, B., Down Africa's Skyways (London: Hutchinson, 1932).
43 Bennett, D. C. T., Pathfinder: A War Autobiography (London: Frederick Muller, 1958).
44 Benson, E., 'Suspicious allies: wartime aviation developments and the Anglo-American international airline rivalry, 1939-1945', History and Technology, 17 (2000), 21-42.
45 Bentley, E. N. B., 'To India in a week', New Statesman (1929), 236-7.
46 Bentley, G. W., 'The development of the air route in the Persian Gulf', Journal of the Royal Central Asian Society, 20 (1933), 173-89.
47 Berry, W. H., The New Traffic - Aircraft (London: Hurst and Blackett, 1919).
48 Berry, W. T. C., Before the Wind of Change (Halesworth: Halesworth Press, 1983).
49 Bhimull, C. D., 'Empire in the Air: Speed, Perception, and Airline Travel in the Atlantic World' (PhD thesis, University of Michigan, 2007).
50 Biel, S., Down with the Old Canoe: a Cultural History of the Titanic Disaster (New York: Norton, 1996).
51 Bigland, E., Awakening to Danger (London: Nicholson and Watson, 1946).
52 Bigland, E., The Lake of the Royal Crocodiles (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1939).
53 Bigland, E., Pattern in Black and White (London: Lindsay Drummond, 1940).
54 Binding, T., In the Kingdom of Air (London: Jonathan Cape, 1993).
55 Blacker, L. V. S., 'The aerial conquest of Everest', National Geographic, 64 (1933), 128-62.
56 Blake, A. E., 'Empire air ways: the new near eastern line', Discovery, 7 (1926), 424-7.
57 Blake, W. T., 'The first world flight attempt', Discovery, 4 (1923), 2-6.
58 Blake, W. T., Flying Round the World (London: Heath Cranton, 1923).
59 Blake, W. T., 'An Imperial airship service', Discovery, 4 (1923), 295-8.
60 Blake, W. T., 'Some difficulties in flying around the world', Geographical Journal, 61 (1923), 273-9.
61 Bluffield, R., Imperial Airways and the Birth of the British Airline Industry 1914-1940 (Burgess Hill: Ian Allan, 2009).
62 Blythe, R., The Age of Illusion (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1963).
63 Boase, W., The Sky's the Limit: Women Pioneers in Aviation (London: Osprey, 1979).
64 Boddy, W., 'C.G.G.' Blackwood's Magazine (1974), 64-76.
65 Bolitho, H., Beside Galilee (London: Cobden Sanderson, 1933).
66 Bolton, G., 'Airships, aeroplanes and the Empire', Great Britain and the East, 48 (1937), 685.
67 Boothby, F. L. M., 'Airships for the Empire', United Empire, 15 (1924), 154-65.
68 Boughton, T., The Story of the British Light Aeroplane (London: John Murray, 1963).
69 Bowdoin van Riper, A., Imagining Flight: Aviation and Popular Culture (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2003).
70 Boyce, R., 'Canada and the Pacific cable controversy, 1923-1928: forgotten source of imperial alienation', Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 26 (1998), 72-92.
71 Boyle, A., Only the Wind Will Listen: Reith of the BBC (London: Hutchinson, 1972).
72 Brackley, F. H., Brackles: Memoirs of a Pioneer of Civil Aviation (Chatham: Mackay, 1952).
73 Brancker, W. S., 'Air communications in the Near East', Journal of the Royal United Services Institute, (1926), 323-42.
74 Brancker, W. S., 'Air transport', Journal of the Institute of Transport, 4 (1923), 357-84.
75 Brancker, W. S., 'Commercial air routes', Journal of the Royal United Services Institute, (1928), 76-92.
76 Brancker, W. S., 'Commercial aviation', Journal of the Royal Society of Arts, 73 (1925), 649-63.
77 Brancker, W. S., 'The development of light aircraft in the British Empire', Air Annual of the British Empire, 1 (1929), 187-97.
78 Brancker, W. S., 'Empire air routes', United Empire, 17 (1926), 694-5.
79 Brancker, W. S., 'Imperial communications', Journal of the Institute of Transport, (1924),
80 Brancker, W. S., 'Le prime rotte aeree dell' impero brittanico', Revista Aeronautica, 39 (1927), 5-19.
81 Brancker, W. S., 'The lessons of six years' experience in air transport', Journal of the Royal Aeronautical Society, 29 (1925), 552-76.
82 Brancker, W. S., 'Progress in civil aviation', Empire Club Speeches, 24 (1926), 116-27.
83 Brancker, W. S., 'Progress in civil aviation', Journal of the Royal United Services Institute, 74 (1929), 771-8.
84 Brancker, W. S., 'Twenty years of flying', Listener, (1929), 117-8.
85 Breasted, C., 'Flying through the ancient Near East', The Scientific Monthly, 36 (1933), 62-5.
86 Breasted, C., Pioneer to the Past (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1943).
87 Brenard, R., 'Air mail for empire', Canadian Business, (1935), 22-3.
88 Brenard, R., 'Asia in Britain's world air system', Asiatic Review, 35 (1939), 354-63.
89 Brenard, R., 'Life along our Empire airways', Aero and Airways (December 1935), 103-5.
90 Brenard, R., 'Men of a new calling', Popular Flying (November 1934), 410-1.
91 Brenard, R., 'The romance of the air mail to East and South Africa', Journal of the Royal African Society, 38 (1939), 47-64.
92 Brenard, R., 'Spanning the Empire by air', in H. Golding (ed.), The Wonder Book of Aircraft (London: Ward, Lock, 1934), 109-20.
93 Brewin, C., 'British plans for international operating agencies for civil aviation, 1941-1945', International History Review, 4 (1982), 91-110.
94 Bridge, C. and K. Fedorovich (eds), The British World: Disapora, Culture and Identity (London: Frank Cass, 2003).
95 Bridges, T. C. and H. H. Tiltman, Epic Tales of Modern Adventure (London: Harrap, 1935).
96 Bright, C. T., 'An imperial air policy', Quarterly Review, 476 (1923), 74-92.
97 Brittain, H. E., By Air (London: Hutchinson, 1933).
98 Brittain, H. E., 'Flying the African skyway', in H. Leigh (ed.), The New Book of the Air (London: Oxford University Press, 1935), 9-17.
99 Brittain, H. E., Pilgrims and Pioneers (London: Hutchinson, 1945).
100 Brittain, H. E., Wings of Speed (London: Hutchinson, 1934).
101 Brooke-Popham, H. R. M., 'Aeroplanes in tropical countries', Journal of the Royal Aeronautical Society, 25 (1921), 588-615.
102 Brooke-Popham, H. R. M., 'Some notes on aeroplanes, with special reference to the air route from Cairo to Baghdad', Journal of the Central Asian Society, 9 (1922), 127-46.
103 Brown, J. M. and W. R. Louis (eds), The Oxford History of the British Empire, Vol 4: the Twentieth Century (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999).
104 Bruce, V., Nine Lives Plus (London: Pelham, 1977).
105 Burchall, H., 'Air services in Africa', Journal of the African Society, 32 (1933), 58.
106 Burchall, H., 'Air transport from Europe to the East', Asiatic Review, 32 (1936), 643-50.
107 Burchall, H., 'British commercial air routes', Scottish Geographical Magazine, 49 (1933), 193-213.
108 Burchall, H., 'Empire flying boat routes', Brassey's Naval Annual, (1937), 180-9.
109 Burchall, H., 'Imperial air routes', Journal of the Royal United Services Institute, (1938), 247-61.
110 Burchall, H., 'The political aspect of commercial air routes', Journal of the Royal Central Asian Society, 20 (1933), 70-90.
111 Burchall, H., 'The politics of international air routes', International Affairs, 14 (1935), 89-107.
112 Burchall, H., 'The projected flying-boat service to Australia', Asiatic Review, 33 (1937), 627-34.
113 Burchall, J. H., 'The air route to India', Journal of the Central Asian Society, 14 (1927), 3-18.
114 Burchall, J. H., 'National sovereignty as obstacles on London-Karachi air service', Journal of the Royal Central Asian Society, (1933), xxx.
115 Burchall, P. R., 'Aerial co operation with survey, map making and exploring expeditions', Journal of the Royal United Services Institute, 67 (1922), 112-27.
116 Burchall, P. R., 'An investigation of the possibilities attaching to aerial co-operation with survey, map-making and exploring expeditions', Journal of the Royal United Services Institute, 67 (1922), 112-27.
117 Burge, C. G. (ed.), Air Annual of the British Empire, 1935-6 (Vol. 7) (London: Pitman, 1936).
118 Burge, C. G. (ed.), Air Annual of the British Empire, 1938 (Vol. 9) (London: Pitman, 1939).
119 Burney, C. D., 'Empire air communications', United Empire, 21 (1930), 135-42.
120 Burney, C. D., 'The future of airships', Empire Review, 51 (1930), 254-60.
121 Burney, C. D., The World, the Air and the Future (London: Knopf, 1929).
122 Butcher, H., 'Cape to London airway', Chambers's Journal, (1932), 56.
123 Butler, J. R. M., Lord Lothian (Philip Kerr), 1882-1940 (London: Macmillan, 1960).
124 Butlin, R. A., Geographies of Empire: European Empires and Colonies c.1880-1960 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009).
125 Butts, D., 'Imperialists of the air-flying stories, 1900-1950', in J. Richards (ed.), Imperialism and Juvenile Literature (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1989), 126-43.
126 Buxton, M., The High-Flying Duchess: Mary du Caurroy Bedford, 1865-1937 (Smeeton Westerby: Woodperry, 2008).
127 Byas, C. W., ''Swiftly' to the Cape', Blackwood's Magazine, (1932), 742-67.
128 Byron, R., An Essay on India (London: Routledge, 1930).
129 Byron, R., 'The freedom of the skies', New Statesman, (1930), 298-300.
130 Cadogan, M., Women with Wings (London: Macmillan, 1992).
131 Camac, H. J. M., From India to England by Air (New York: privately published, 1929).
132 Cameron, K. M., Africa on Film (New York: Continuum, 1994).
133 Campbell-Black, T., 'Problems of African air transport', African Observer, 2 (1935), 14-8.
134 Campbell-Johnson, A., Mission with Mountbatten (London: Robert Hale, 1951).
135 Cannon, J. (ed.), Oxford Companion to British History (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997).
136 Carberry, J., Child of Happy Valley (London: Heinemann, 1999).
137 Carlton, D., 'The problem of civil aviation in British disarmament policy', Journal of the Royal United Services Institute, 111 (1966), 307-16.
138 Cassidy, B., Flying Empires: Short 'C' Class Empire Flying Boats (Bath: Queen's Parade, 1996).