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Dr Victoria Taylor @spitfirefilly.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

My absolute highlight was meeting USAAF veteran Joe Peterburs, a P-51 Mustang fighter pilot who shot down Walter Schuck's Messerschmitt Me 262 in April 1945. What a star and a credit to his country ⭐️

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Dr Victoria Taylor @spitfirefilly.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Great to see my timeline getting flooded with #OSH26 footage! Really enjoyed attending last year to speak on #EagleDays (yes, I got the t-shirt...) ✈️ @EAA

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Dr Victoria Taylor @spitfirefilly.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Looking forward to talking about psychological health in the #Luftwaffe at Bentley Priory Museum on Saturday 11th July! The fabulous @danellin.bsky.social & #TimWillbond will be speaking on LMF in Bomber Command & the Big Wing Controversy respectively 👇 bentleypriorymuseum.org.uk/whats-on/dow...

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Dr Victoria Taylor @spitfirefilly.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

📢*Next 2026 EVENTS*📢 ➡️Sunday 14th June 2026 - IWM History Festival, IWM Duxford. Interview with an unusual guest for 'Eagle Days' ➡️Saturday 11th July 2026 - Dowding System Day, Bentley Priory Museum, 'Taken Off: Psychological Health in the Luftwaffe during the Second World War'

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Dr Victoria Taylor @spitfirefilly.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Get someone who looks at you the way I look at Barnes Wallis' marbles! (the ones owned by his daughter which he used to refine the 'bouncing bomb' for Op CHASTISE). Pop over to Denhams auction house (Horsham) on Wed 25th March to bid on the amazing Sir Barnes Wallis Collection!

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Dr Victoria Taylor @spitfirefilly.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Today's #AllAndSundry offering is a 3-part Substack article on Combat Motivation, Experience & Morale in the Luftwaffe: -Part 1 (free): spitfirefilly.substack.com/p/what-is-ma... -Part 2 (free): spitfirefilly.substack.com/p/what-is-ma... -Part 3 (paid): spitfirefilly.substack.com/p/what-is-ma...

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Dr Victoria Taylor @spitfirefilly.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

A pleasure to act as the guest expert for the latest episode of BBC Radio 4 #GreatLives! This episode is on the legendary Spitfire test pilot Jeffrey Quill, chosen by the equally inspirational Tim Peake 😊 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

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Dr Victoria Taylor @spitfirefilly.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

My newest Substack two-part article is now up! It's entitled 'A Challenge To Fate': The Trailblazing Life of Amy Johnson' - stretching from early accomplishments to her controversial death: -Part 1 (free): spitfirefilly.substack.com/p/a-challeng... -Part 2 (paid): open.substack.com/pub/spitfire...

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Dr Victoria Taylor @spitfirefilly.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

So unbelievably touched that #EagleDays has been included in The Telegraph's "Greatest Books of 2025" List! Thank you to everyone who has supported it so passionately, and to my publisher @headofzeus.bsky.social & agent Georgina Capel for bringing it to life 🥹❤️ www.telegraph.co.uk/books/author...

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Dr Victoria Taylor @spitfirefilly.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

It was an honour to present a new episode for the Imperial War Museum's YouTube channel on the Battle of Britain from the Luftwaffe's perspective - straight from the Operations Room at IWM Duxford! Link is here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=70T8...

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Dr Victoria Taylor @spitfirefilly.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

How did Nazi propaganda try to buck up fighting spirit in the Luftwaffe during the Blitz? By using poetry, of course! Check out my latest Substack article entitled "'It's Worth the Sweat!': Luftwaffe Poetry during the Blitz." It's free to read here 👇 spitfirefilly.substack.com/p/its-worth-...

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Dr Victoria Taylor @spitfirefilly.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Excited to announce that the paperback version of #EagleDays is now available to pre-order! You can get 25% off if you preorder with Waterstones by Friday 17th October. You can use the following link and the code "OCTOBER25" to redeem this offer today 🥳 www.waterstones.com/campaign/oct...

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Dr Victoria Taylor @spitfirefilly.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

I've also been touched by some people at recent events asking if there's going to be another series of #Afterburners - I hope so! For those who have not yet got access to this exclusive 10-part audio lecture series, it's currently 50% off until tomorrow: spitfirefillyaviation.com/afterburners

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Dr Victoria Taylor @spitfirefilly.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Looking forward to attending Chelsea History Festival today, Hereford Military Festival on Saturday & the Dublin Festival of History on Sunday: chelseahistoryfestival.online.red61.co.uk/event/386:52... www.ticketsource.co.uk/booking/sele... dublinfestivalofhistory.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/...

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Dr Victoria Taylor @spitfirefilly.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

My next article is up on my #AllAndSundry Substack! it's entitled 'Right On The Chin: Operation MILLENNIUM', covering the RAF's first 'Thousand Bomber Raid' against Cologne: -Part 1 (free): spitfirefilly.substack.com/p/right-on-t... -Part 2 (paid): spitfirefilly.substack.com/p/right-on-t...

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Dr Victoria Taylor @spitfirefilly.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Thrilled to receive these kind words from Professor Sebastian H. Lukasik of the USAF Air Command & Staff College on #EagleDays! It was important to me that present-day air force personnel and airpower theorists also found the book informative. Thank you to everyone who has supported the book 😊

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Dr Victoria Taylor @spitfirefilly.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Great to see you on Bluesky, @taitster.bsky.social ! Thank you so much for your kind words. It was a tremendous honour to give the speeches for the Defence Academy's Battle of Britain Dinner Night at Shrivenham - may we drink to #TheFew on this #BattleOfBritainDay! 🥃

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Dr Victoria Taylor @spitfirefilly.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

A pleasure to present a new project for IWM Duxford today - looking forward to sharing the final result in due course! 🎥 Also just had to take a picture with this Bf 109 E that is crumped just like the one on the front cover of #EagleDays... @headofzeus.bsky.social

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Dr Victoria Taylor @spitfirefilly.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

Come enjoy my research rabbit holes via a mix of free & paid #Substack articles on #AllAndSundry! -Part 1: spitfirefilly.substack.com/p/conquerors... -Part 2: open.substack.com/pub/spitfirefilly/p/conquerors-of-the-skies-part-2?r=5u3ggw&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false

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Dr Victoria Taylor @spitfirefilly.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

SO very excited that myself & Principal Curator James Taylor be taking a group around IWM London tomorrow on the 85th anniversary of #EagleDay! Our private tour will be covering the #BattleOfBritain and #TheBlitz. Thank you to everyone who has made it a sold-out event 🥹♥️

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Dr Victoria Taylor @spitfirefilly.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

#EagleDays will be officially released in the US and Canada a week today! What better way to mark this than to fly out to 🇺🇸 for some book events? If you're around the Midwestern United States this week, come say hi at one of the following events...🥰♥️

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Dr Victoria Taylor @spitfirefilly.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

It was an honour to deliver Royal Aeronautical Society Bedford's 60th Anniversary Lecture. Most grateful to the Society for hosting the event and to HM Lord-Lieutenant of Bedfordshire for an inspiring talk on local aerospace investment. Thank you also for the kind flowers and engraved aerofoil!

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Dr Victoria Taylor @spitfirefilly.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

SUPER excited to announce that we will be taking #EagleDays to the USA this summer! Honoured to be speaking on the Luftwaffe in the Battle of Britain at EAA's AirVenture Oshkosh 2025, as well as talks & signings at Barnes & Noble in Schaumburg, IL and Marian University. See you there! ✈️ #OSH25

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Dr Victoria Taylor @spitfirefilly.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

"A scholarly work looking at the aspects covered in EAGLE DAYS needed to be written. It has been a very long time coming, but in this, her first book, Taylor has produced an absolute masterpiece." So unbelievably touched by Andy Saunders' review of #EagleDays in History of War Magazine ♥️

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Dr Victoria Taylor @spitfirefilly.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

If you haven't yet grabbed a copy of this month's BBC History magazine, my extended feature 'Channel Sickness' explores the immense combat strain that the Luftwaffe under during the #BattleofBritain - from clashing with Fighter Command, to overcoming the English Channel

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Dr Victoria Taylor @spitfirefilly.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

"An extremely compelling book, very different to anything this reviewer has ever seen on the battle before...the author's assessments throughout are fair, balanced, thoroughly referenced and very well-argued." Delighted that #EagleDays is #AeroplaneMonthly Magazine's 'Book of the Month' ♥️ ✈️

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Dr Victoria Taylor @spitfirefilly.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

"Comprehensive, multi-layered & filled with rich detail & contemporary eyewitness accounts, many translated into English for the first time. A riveting & timely read from one of our finest young historians." Lovely to see this #EagleDays review in the Daily Express/Daily Mirror!

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Dr Victoria Taylor @spitfirefilly.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

If you've not yet seen last night's 'Who Do You Think You Are?', it's on pop star #WillYoung & is available on BBC iPlayer. A privilege to take Will through the RAF Museum #Cosford & show him the bomber his grandfather flew in WWII: the Handley Page Hampden. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

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Dr Victoria Taylor @spitfirefilly.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

I am SO excited to announce a truly unique event! In honour of #EagleDays, myself & IWM Principal Curator #JamesTaylor will be conducting an exclusive, personalised tour of IWM London's Second World War Galleries on 13 August. Tickets available here: www.iwm.org.uk/events/my-iw...

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Dr Victoria Taylor @spitfirefilly.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

Good morning all! We will be at the fabulous #AcesHighAviationGallery this morning, where I'll be in conversation with Air Marshal 'Black' Robertson on #EagleDays & signing copies of the book (& where you'll get to check out the amazing #BattleOfBritain artwork!). Can't wait to see you soon ♥️

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Dr Victoria Taylor @spitfirefilly.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

A tremendous honour to give a talk about #EagleDays and present copies of the book to officers & crew on board #HMSQueenElizabeth! Very touching as the granddaughter of two #RoyalNavy veterans. Thank you for the tour - and thanks #OspreyBooks & #BloomsburyBooks for arranging the day! ⚓️✈️

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Dr Victoria Taylor @spitfirefilly.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

"From the moment I turned the first page of this lovely book, I realised I was in for a treat." Thank you so much, @lovereadinguk.bsky.social for your wonderful review of #EagleDays! So very glad you enjoyed it 🥰

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Dr Victoria Taylor @spitfirefilly.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

Thank you so much to everyone who has been tweeting me all your kind excitement now that #EagleDays has landed on your doormats! I am so thrilled that many of you are enjoying reading it so far - thank you for always being so uplifting & positive 🥰 happy #BankHoliday reading!

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Dr Victoria Taylor @spitfirefilly.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

I'll be on Times Radio at 9:15pm this evening chatting all things #EagleDays with Geoff Norcott! Grab your nightly cocoa and come sit down - I promise it'll be worth staying up for ☕️✈️ thetimes.com/radio/live

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Dr Victoria Taylor @spitfirefilly.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Happy joint publication day to #EagleDays & my new accompanying feature in #HistoryofWar magazine! Focussing on recruitment & training in the Luftwaffe by 1940, it contains bonus material that I couldn't fit into the book. On sale now! 😊👇 #BattleOfBritain www.magazinesdirect.com/az-single-is...

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Dr Victoria Taylor @spitfirefilly.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Charing Cross @foylesforbooks.bsky.social knows the score 😉 thank you so much to their team for highlighting #EagleDays! Some excellent company to be in, too...

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Dr Victoria Taylor @spitfirefilly.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

So amazing & surreal to see #EagleDays hitting the #1 spot for top bestseller, "hot new releases" & "most wished for" in the aviation category on Amazon! Thank you SO much for getting passionately behind this book before it's even out 🥰 @headofzeus.bsky.social

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Dr Victoria Taylor @spitfirefilly.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

ONE week today until #EagleDays is released!! Still not quite sinking in yet. Thank you to all of the wonderful people who contributed to it & the kind souls who continue to support my work. I couldn't have done it without you ♥️ Pre-order links here: geni.us/EagleDays

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Dr Victoria Taylor @spitfirefilly.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Looking forward to going on the excellent @fightingonfilm.bsky.social podcast to discuss 'Stukas' (1941) & wartime depictions of the Luftwaffe in Nazi propaganda, as I dissect in #EagleDays. Patreon supporters - get your questions in soon using their link below! 👇 www.patreon.com/posts/128756...

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Dr Victoria Taylor @spitfirefilly.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Over the moon that the #EagleDays audiobook is narrated by John Sackville! He's lent his rich, authoritative tone to works such as James Holland's 'Normandy '44' & Len Deighton's 'Fighter'. You'll now be able to get your #EagleDays fix wherever you want!🎧 @headofzeus.bsky.social

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Dr Victoria Taylor @spitfirefilly.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Thank you so much, @unseenhistories.com, for the kind words on #EagleDays! So happy to hear you enjoyed reading it - and it is always so touching when a reviewer acknowledges the hard work that has gone into the research process 🥰

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Dr Victoria Taylor @spitfirefilly.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

I think my lovely family are proud 🥹🥹 #EagleDays

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Dr Victoria Taylor @spitfirefilly.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

"We drew the sword to defend the honour of our given word, but we knew that, as the champion of freedom for others, we were fighting also for our own survival, for dear life in the literal meaning of those words." Lord Woolton, Minister of Reconstruction, 15 May 1945 #VEDay80

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Dr Victoria Taylor @spitfirefilly.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

With a couple of weeks to go until #EagleDays comes out, it has been so touching to be uplifted by some of the historians I admire the most. Thank you, #FrederickTaylor, for your very kind endorsement - both your Coventry & Dresden books are cornerstones of air war history! @headofzeus.bsky.social

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Dr Victoria Taylor @spitfirefilly.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

"For the first time in nearly six years, London was able to see its public edifices floodlit by night...with searchlight beams weaving overhead, & lights from houses & offices blazing forth, London enjoyed its first real escape from the long black-out." - The Sphere #VEDay80

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Dr Victoria Taylor @spitfirefilly.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Thank you so much to #JamesHolland for his generous review of #EagleDays in today's @telegraphnews.bsky.social ! It's an honour to have a debut book reviewed by such an accomplished writer. Just the right level of encouragement to a new author whilst identifying areas for growth - much appreciated ♥️

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Dr Victoria Taylor @spitfirefilly.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

It's less than a month to go until #EagleDays comes out! I am looking SO forward to us all being able to chat about the book together in as many ways & at as many venues as possible (more info soon...) Thank you so much for your support - we've got quite the summer ahead!🥰✈️

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Dr Victoria Taylor @spitfirefilly.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Please visit the amazing Aces High Gallery on 1 June to join myself & the fantastic Air Marshal G.A. ‘Black’ Robertson for a conversation on #EagleDays! There will also be a book signing & a uniquely curated exhibition of Battle of Britain artwork. Not to be missed! 🥰 aces-high.com/events/view/...

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