Links for 2008-11-04: memories of the moonwalk and an insight into the excitement of the time; Austerity Issue, an examination of rationing and the Mass Observation project; Dignifying Science: Stories About Women Scientists.
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This is just a charming story about a father-son relationship, the excitement at the time of the moon landing and the hope that it embodied, and also the fierce work ethic of an employer.
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Nicely timed for this author. With luck, the book is less trite than this article because this is an interesting topic and I have been interested in the Mass Observation project for some time. ""No sooner did we awake from the six years' nightmare of war and feel free to enjoy life once more, than the means to do so immediately became even scantier than they had been during the war," lamented Anthony Heap, a local government officer living near St Pancras, London, in his diary at the end of 1945. "Housing, food, clothing, fuel, beer, tobacco – all the ordinary comforts of life that we'd taken for granted before the war, and naturally expected to become more plentiful again when it ended, became instead more and more scarce and difficult to come by." Little did he, or anyone else, imagine the hard, stony road that lay ahead. It would be another nine years before rationing was finally ended in 1954, nine long years of attritional discomfort and privation."
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Interesting enough idea but poorly performed. Yet, oddly, I am not conjuring up a conspiracy about this – it is just plain, ordinary incompetence. But, yet again, a chance to tell some fascinating stories about women scientists has been lost.
