Taylor Downing regularly contributes articles, features and reviews to magazines and journals.
Recent and upcoming articles include:
The Saturday Telegraph
A feature on shell shock in World War One to mark the publication of Breakdown 16 April 2016
History Today
Taylor is a regular contributor and reviewer for History Today and is a judge of the Longmans/History Today annual Book Prize. His review of the 2016 winner appeared in the March 2016 edition.
Previous features
include:
History Today June 2014
The Great War - a feature on the making of the epic 1964 BBC television series
History Today December
2013
Scientists in Uniform - the WW1 exploits of
Nobel prize winner William Lawrence
Bragg
History Today October
2013
The World
at War - a feature on the making of the great television
series
Military History Monthly
A regular feature called 'Films at War' telling the story of the making of some classic war movies.
Including:
A Farewell To Arms
La Grande Illusion
All Quiet on the Western Front
Paths of Glory
My Boy Jack
Regeneration
Aces
High
The Longest Day
Overlord
Dr Strangelove
The Cruel Sea
One of Our Aircraft is Missing
School for Secrets
The Man Who Never
Was
The Dam Busters
The FIrst of the
Few
In Which We Serve
http://www.military-history.org
Past and Future - Institute of Historical Research Spring-Summer 2013
Televising History
Military History Monthly July
2013
A feature on the Bruneval Raid of Feb 1942
The Observer Magazine 27 January 2013
The Hitler home movies: how Eva Braun documented the dictator’s private life
(with Robert McCrum)
Eva Braun was the most intimate chronicler of the Nazi regime, capturing Hitler’s private life with her cine-camera…
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jan/27/hitler-home-movies-eva-braun?INTCMP=SRCH
The Journal of British Cinema and Television Vol 10 January 2013
The Cold War – A Personal View
‘The trouble with the Cold war is that nothing really happened.’ These were the words of one of the leading TV commissioning editors of history programmes…
http://www.euppublishing.com/journal/jbctv
Military History Monthly July 2012
At the Brink – 1983: A Breath Away from Nuclear Annihilation
The Cuban Missile Crisis is well known. But the world came even closer to nuclear Armageddon in 1983…
http://www.military-history.org/issues/military-history-monthly-july-2012.htm
History Today May 2012
From the Archive – RAF Films: On Record, Off Target
The RAF’s actions as they were depicted in popular culture, particularly in the films of the day, bore little resemblance to what it was doing…
The Sunday Times Colour Magazine 28 August 2011
How aerial intelligence helped win the war
May 1943. Water gushes from a German dam that has taken hits from bouncing bombs…
http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk
Recent reviews by Taylor Downing feature the following books:
Sarah Helm, If This Is a Woman: Inside Ravensbrück
for History Today, March 2016
James Wyllie
and Michael McKinley, The Codebreakers for History
Today, February 2016
Alban Webb
London Calling: Britain, the BBC World Service and the Cold
War for History Today, February 2015
Ben Urwand The Collaboration: Hollywood's Pact with Hitler for History Today, September 2014
Calder Walton Empire of Secrets for History Today, March 2014
Luke
McKernan Charles Urban for History Today,
December 2013
Richard Toye
The Roar of the Lion for History Today, November
2013
Sinclair McKay The Secret Listeners for Military History Monthly, January 2013
Clive Aslet War Memorial for Military History Monthly, December 2012
Christine Halsell Women of Intelligence for History Today, November 2012
Ian Senior Home Before the Leaves Fall for Military History Monthly, October 2012
David Edgerton Britain’s War Machine for History Today, February 2012
And
many, many more...
© 2013 Taylor Downing