Dr Victoria Taylor, BA (Hons), MRes, AFHEA is an award-winning aviation historian who completed her PhD thesis on the Luftwaffe and National Socialism at the University of Hull & Sheffield Hallam University. Her main historical focus is on British and German aviation during the interwar period & the Second World War. In recognition of her PhD research, she was awarded the 2020 Royal Air Force Museum Doctoral Academic Prize in 2021. She also completed her Masters in Historical Research (MRes) on Britain’s wartime and post-war mythologization of Operation CHASTISE – better known as the ‘Dambusters raid’ – at Hull, for which she was awarded the Royal Air Force Museum’s RAF Centenary Master’s Academic Prize in 2019.Since 2018, she has widely featured as an onscreen expert in history programming for BBC Two, Channel 4, Channel 5, the Smithsonian Channel, History Hit, and SBS Australia. In 2020, Victoria served as narrator & co-writer on ‘Inside the Battle of Britain', a series from the Royal Air Force Benevolent Fund podcast 'All Stations’. This five-part series was nominated for a Best Independent Podcast award by the Radio Academy in 2021.Victoria has written for History at War, BBC History Extra, Iron Cross and Britain at War magazines. She presented and co-wrote a programme for BBC Radio 4 on Supermarine's development of the Spitfire, in addition to serving as an expert contributor alongside Diane Morgan for the 'Great Lives' episode on Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh Dowding. She sits on the Advisory Board for the cross-party Spitfire AA810 restoration project in the House of Lords, is an ‘Ambassador’ for the National Spitfire Project & RAF Charitable Trust, and is an Assistant Editor for the Royal Aeronautical Society’s Journal of Aeronautical History. Her expertise has also been channelled via consultancy work for the BBC, Royal Mail, Smithsonian Channel & the Royal Air Force Benevolent Fund.www.spitfirefillyaviation.com