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Dangerous Energy

The archaeology of gunpowder and military explosives manufacture

By: Wayne D. Cocroft

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Dangerous Energy

The archaeology of gunpowder and military explosives manufacture

By: Wayne D. Cocroft

This book comprises a national study of the explosives industry and provides a framework for identification of its industrial archaeology and social history. Few monuments of gunpowder manufacture survive in Britain from the Middle Ages, although its existence is documented. Late 17th-century water-powered works are identifiable but sparse. In the later 18th century, however, the industry was transformed by state acquisition of key factories, notably at Faversham and at Waltham Abbey.In the mid-19th century developments in Britain paralleled those in continental Europe and in America, namely a shift to production on an industrial scale related to advances in armaments technology. The urgency and large-scale demands of the two world wars brought state-directed or state-led solutions to explosives production in the 20th century. Yhe book’s concluding section looks at planning, preservation, conservation and presentation in relation to prospective future uses of these sites.

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Liverpool University Press

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184802181X

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9781848021815

Archaeology of The Teufelsberg

Exploring Western Electronic Intelligence Gathering in Cold War Berlin

By: Wayne D Cocroft,John Schofield

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Exploring Western Electronic Intelligence Gathering in Cold War Berlin

By: Wayne D Cocroft,John Schofield

For over 50 years, the white radomes of the Teufelsberg have been one of Berlin’s most prominent landmarks. For half of this time the city lay over 100 miles behind an 'Iron Curtain' that divided East from West, and was surrounded by communist East Germany and the densest concentration of Warsaw Pact military forces in Europe. From the vantage point high on the Teufelsberg, British and American personnel constantly monitored the electronic emissions from the surrounding military forces, as well as high-level political intelligence. Today, the Teufelsberg stands as a contemporary and spectacular ruin, representing a significant relic of a lost cyber space of Cold War electronic emissions and espionage. Based on archaeological fieldwork and recently declassified documents, this book presents a new history of the Teufelsberg and other Western intelligence gathering sites in Berlin. At a time when intelligence gathering is once more under close scrutiny, when questions are being asked about the intelligence relationship between the United States and Russia, and amidst wider debate about the US’s National Security Agency (NSA) intelligence programmes, sites like the Teufelsberg raise questions that appear both important and timely.

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Routledge

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0429809638

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Former RAF Upper Heyford, Cherwell, Oxfordshire

A Reassessment of the Flying Field Conservation Area

By: Wayne D. Cocroft

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Former RAF Upper Heyford, Cherwell, Oxfordshire

A Reassessment of the Flying Field Conservation Area

By: Wayne D. Cocroft

RAF Upper Heyford was founded during the First World War and after a short period of abandonment was re-established during the 1920s under Trenchard's scheme to provide permanent bases for the RAF. It was the exemplary airfield and the only one completed to the original design standards. During the Second World War the most significant change to the appearance of the airfield was the laying of concrete runways in a characteristic 'A' plan configuration. In the late 1940s the airfield was identified as one of a number that might accommodate United States bombers with the capability of attacking Eastern Europe with atomic weapons. To fulfil this role the airfield was extensively reconstructed, with a longer runway, more extensive aircraft parking areas, new bombs stores, specialist maintenance hangars, and an increase in domestic accommodation. During the 1960s its aircraft fulfilled a reconnaissance function regaining its nuclear deterrent role 1970. During the 1970s the airfield was again transformed through NATO's airfield survival measures programme leading to the construction of numerous hardened structures. With the end of the Cold War the USAF departed in 1993. Today, its flying field is an increasingly rare example of an unaltered Cold War fast jet airbase.

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1848025106

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Former RAF Upper Heyford, Cherwell, Oxfordshire

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