Category talk:British aviation historians
British aviation historians - notability of cateogory[edit]
Added this category because it is a highly specialized subset of the category "Historians" and "British historians," and because it is extremely important to British history, and world history because British aviation is a fundamental force in history-shaping modern affairs -- including war, commerce, transportation, exploration and leading developments in science and technology.
British aviation historians generally hold and share a far greater knowledge of these specifics than historians at large, and thus are a very distinct subset of historians, and specialize (usually exclusively) in this important branch of history.
British aviation historians are typically quite distinct from British historians at large, who tend to be generalists, focused on political and social subtopics of history. By comparison, aviation historians are distinguished, typically, by their exceptional attention to technological developments, the business and industry aspects of the field, and the history subset of war (specificially: aerial warfare), while typically disregarding the broader contexts of social and political developments (except as pertains to aviation-intense specific wars).
British aviation historians are distinct from "Aviation historians" generally, in that they are noted for extraordinary attention to minute technical and administrative details, and extreme care towards accuracy -- with a broader aviation world view than many other aviation historians (particularly American and French) -- but also a pronounced preoccupation with (and bias favoring) British aviation, and especially with World War I and World War II in Europe.
They are also, by far, the most prolific publishers of aviation history, with the possible exception of American aviation historians (who tend to approach and present aviation history very differently), and their books are far more widely published and distributed around the world than any other nationality of aviation historians. Thus, compared to other aviation historians globally, British aviation historians very disproportionately shape the global record and perception of world aviation history (for better or worse).