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 enthusiasts, local historical associations, trainee secondary school teachers and their pupils of all ages & exam stages. 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

• 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, ‘“Upon departure, the fires could still be seen 80 to 100 kilometres away”: The Hull Blitz in Nazi Propaganda’, Historical Association: Hull & East Riding Branch (November 2021)

• Victoria Taylor, ‘Life in Nazi Germany’, GCSE Students at Trinity School, Hull (November 2021)

• Victoria Taylor, ‘Teaching Nazi Germany’, PGCE History Teachers at Malet Lambert School, Hull (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