Talks & Lectures

Victoria frequently gives both in-person talks and online lectures for a variety of audiences, from academics, air power historians, and university classes, to military history enthusiasts and festival goers. She has spoken on a myriad of historical topics, including combat motivation, experience and morale in the Luftwaffe; the Allied Combined Bomber Offensive; German fighter aces in the First World War; the National Socialist Flyers Corps; the legend of the Dambusters in Wartime Britain; the Battle of Britain (from both the RAF & Luftwaffe perspective); the Hull Blitz and York in the Baedeker raids; the Battle of Britain in Nazi propaganda; female Luftwaffe assistants; and many more subjects.

Past & Upcoming Talks/Lectures

• Victoria Taylor, ‘Operation MILLENNIUM: The First Thousand Bomber Raid’, St Hugh’s College, University of Oxford (September 2024)

• Victoria Taylor, ‘The Hurricane Through German Eyes’, Imperial War Museum Duxford (August 2024)

• Victoria Taylor, Chair for Major General Peter Rowell’s Prince Philip Lecture on Military Education, Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) (July 2024)

• Victoria Taylor, ‘Fledglings of the Third Reich: The National Socialist Flyers Corps, The Aviation Hitler Youth, and the Luftwaffe’, Royal Aeronautical Society (July 2024) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xC2uSKexJ_E&ab_channel=RoyalAeronauticalSociety

• Victoria Taylor, ‘Keynote Address’, British Commission for Military History Annual New Researchers Conference (October 2023)

• Victoria Taylor w/ Dan Ellin, ‘Operation Gomorrah: The Bombing of Hamburg’, We Have Ways Fest (September 2023)

• Victoria Taylor w/ Allen Packwood & Professor Gaynor Johnson, ‘Opening Event - Who Was Winston Churchill?’, Chartwell Literary Festival (September 2023)

• Victoria Taylor, ‘Paper Victories: the Battle of Britain in Nazi Propaganda’, Battle of Britain Bunker (August 2023)

• Victoria Taylor, ‘The Spitfire Through German Eyes’, Imperial War Museum Duxford (August 2023)

• Victoria Taylor with James Holland, ‘Defence of the Reich 1943’, Chalke Valley History Festival (June 2023)

• Victoria Taylor, ‘Éclat': Conserving the Past, Present, and Posterity of RAF Scampton’, All-Party Parliamentary War Heritage Group, House of Lords (April 2023)

• ‘The Führer’s Hammer: National Socialism and the Luftwaffe,’ Society for Military Historians Annual Conference, San Diego, California (March 2023)

• Victoria Taylor, ‘What Is Man Against It?: Combat Motivation, Experience, and Morale across the Luftwaffe in the Second World War’, Royal Air Force Museum Cosford (December 2022) - https://www.crowdcast.io/e/c-mtv-luft

• Victoria Taylor, ‘A Squadron of Spitfires: The Luftwaffe’s Perspective in the Battle of Britain’, Imperial War Museum Duxford (September 2022)

• Victoria Taylor, ‘The Hull Blitz in Nazi Propaganda’, Historical Association: Hull & East Riding Branch (November 2021)

• Victoria Taylor, ‘The Luftwaffe and National Socialism’, RAF Museum Annual Conference (September 2021)

• Host for Jennifer Grant’s talk on the Polish Air Force, Chelsea History Festival (September 2021)

• Victoria Taylor, ‘The Dambuster Legend in Wartime Britain’, Trenchard Lecture Series at the Royal Aeronautical Society/Royal Air Force Museum, (October 2020) https://www.crowdcast.io/e/trenchard-lecture-the/register

• Victoria Taylor, ‘German Fighter Aces in the First World War’, History from Home with Dan Hill, 20 May 2020 – https://www.danhillmilitaryhistorian.com/archive