Taylor Downing regularly contributes articles, features and reviews to magazines, journals and papers.
He writes a
monthly feature on classic war films for Military History Monthly:
Military History
Monthly
Recent articles include:
The Saturday Telegraph
A feature on shell shock in World War One to mark the publication of Breakdown 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.
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 'War on Film' telling the story of the making of some classic war movies,
including:
Dunkirk
M.A.S.H.
The Hurt Locker
Catch 22
Saving Private Ryan
and other D-Day films like
The Longest Day
and
Overlord
Napoleon
Memphis Belle
A Farewell To Arms
La Grande Illusion
All Quiet on the Western Front
Paths of Glory
Regeneration
Aces
High
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
And many
more...
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 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
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
How aerial
intelligence helped win the war, August
2011
Recent reviews by Taylor Downing feature the following books:
Daniel Siemens, Stormtroopers for Military History Monthly
Rodric Braithwaite, Armageddon and Paranoia for History Today
Lynne Olson, Last Hope Island for Military HIstory Monthly
Richard Dannatt,
Boots on the Ground for Military History
Monthly
Sarah Helm, If This Is a Woman: Inside Ravensbrück
for History
Today
James Wyllie and
Michael McKinley, The Codebreakers for History
Today
Alban Webb
London Calling: Britain, the BBC World Service and the Cold
War for History Today
Ben Urwand
The Collaboration: Hollywood's Pact with Hitler for
History Today
Calder Walton
Empire of Secrets for History
Today
Luke McKernan
Charles Urban for History Today
Richard Toye
The Roar of the Lion for History
Today
Sinclair
McKay The Secret Listeners for Military
History Monthly
Clive
Aslet War Memorial for Military History
Monthly
Christine
Halsell Women of Intelligence for History
Today
Ian
Senior Home Before the Leaves Fall for
Military History Monthly
David
Edgerton Britain’s War Machine for History
Today
And many,
many more...
© 2013 Taylor Downing