Taylor Downing - Talks

Taylor regularly gives talks on many subjects relating to the world wars and to his books. He gave Churchill Lectures at the Imperial War Museum’s Churchill War Rooms in 2011, 2012 and 2014 - all three of which were complete sell outs. He has given talks at the Science Museum, the National Army Museum, the Royal Aeronautical Society and at Bletchley Park.

Taylor also regularly gives talks on Television and History and has lectured on this subject at Cambridge University, at Queen’s University, Belfast and at Lincoln University.

He frequently appears at book festivals and has recently given talks at the Edinburgh Book Festival, at 'Ways with Words' at Dartington and at 'Words by the Water' Festival in Keswick, at the Henley Literary Festival, the Warwick Book Festival, at the Hampstead and Highgate Literary Festival, at the Scarborough Book Festival, the Cheltenham Literary Festival and at several others.

He has given talks about Leni Riefenstahl’s Olympia for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in London and at the British Museum.

His many recent media appearances include for CNN International, BBC1's Heir Hunters, Radio 4’s Things We Forgot to Remember and Channel 5’s Beat the Ancestors.

He regularly talks at Historical Association societies in the south-east.

Taylor can be booked to give talks on a variety of related topics. Please click on Contacts page.

During the single month of October 2016, Taylor gave Talks in Warwick, at the Ilkley Literature Festival, The Sunday Times Cheltenham Literature Festival and at Historical Association meetings in Ealing, Welwyn Garden City and Clapham.