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Dr. Victoria Taylor is a Lecturer in the Defence Studies Department at King’s College London, part of the School of Security Studies within the Faculty of Social Science & Public Policy. She specializes in teaching air power strategy to junior RAF officers at the Joint Services Command and Staff College (Defence Academy, Shrivenham). Her research focuses on the Royal Air Force and Luftwaffe during the interwar period and WWII, with particular emphasis on combat experience, political/diplomatic dimensions of war, and ethical aspects of aerial warfare.
She holds a PhD from the University of Hull and Sheffield Hallam University, where her thesis on the Luftwaffe's politicization in the Third Reich earned the 2021 RAF Museum Doctoral Prize. Her MRes on the Dambusters Raid mythologization won the 2019 RAF Centenary Master’s Prize. She serves on the Editorial Board of the Royal Aeronautical Society’s Journal of Aeronautical History and has published in Journal of Transport History, Oranges & Lemons, and Cambridge University Press.
Currently working on two upcoming books, Taylor also contributes to public history initiatives like the Spitfire monument fundraising and the restoration of Spitfire AA810. She frequently appears as an airpower expert on BBC, Smithsonian Channel, and History Hit, blending academic rigor with media engagement.
