The Blackburn: Dumbarton’s Aircraft Factory

Local publications have much to commend them and our only regret is that we do not receive enough of them for review (or have enough space ever to publish such reviews) as we would wish. They have their own local value, of course, but also have value as a source of welcome income for public libraries and others in these straitened times. But they have a wider significance too: many subjects are as much the sums of parts as of “big” studies, and industrial history especially might start in largely antiquarian studies of local specific installations, which can then become...