Consultancy Work

Victoria has channelled her historical expertise into a wide variety of consultancy projects with organisations such as Royal Mail, the Imperial War Museum, the RAF Benevolent Fund, the BBC, a host of individual historians, journalists, and even historical graphic novelists. Most recently, she served as a onscreen expert, historical researcher & assistant producer on Series 11 of ‘Air Warriors’ - the Smithsonian Channel’s flagship airpower television series.

Victoria is experienced in compiling dedicated case files of both primary and secondary historical research so as to provide her clients with the most detailed context as possible for their unique projects. In addition, she has been a peer reviewer for Nacelles, provides editorial assistance to the popular scholarly airpower forum ‘From Balloons to Drones’, and sits on the Editorial Board for the Royal Aeronautical Society’s Journal of Aeronautical History.

She is also part of RAeS’ ‘Aeronautical Heritage Specialist Group’ and serves as the Project Historian for Spitfire AA810 - a cross-party initiative to restore an original Photographic Reconnaissance Unit Spitfire to the skies ( https://www.spitfireaa810.co.uk/ ). In 2022, she was made a ‘Spitfire Ace’ Ambassador with the National Spitfire Project, which aims to complete fundraising for the erection of a Spitfire monument in Southampton ( https://nationalspitfiremonument.com/ ). She was also recently made an Associate of the Freeman Air and Space Institute based at the School of Security Studies at King’s College London. More information can be found here: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/victoria-taylor

Please click on the ‘Contact’ button at the top of the page to enquire about hourly rates and how Victoria can uniquely tailor her research skills to help you get the very best out of your historical project.

Consultancy Experience

• Member of the Advisory Board, Churchill in Cartoons Exhibition, Imperial War Museum London (November 2024) - https://www.iwm.org.uk/events/churchill-in-cartoons-satirising-a-statesman

• Historical Consultant, Researcher & Assistant Producer for Season 11 of Air Warriors, Smithsonian Channel (October 2022 - February 2023, 5 months).

• Historical Consultant on project for Royal Mail, September 2021.

• Historical Consultant for the Royal Air Force Benevolent Fund, ‘Back On The Radar’ installation piece and WAAF infographics, September 2020

• Historical Researcher & Advisor for BBC One’s ‘Who Do You Think You Are?’, May 2020/August 2021

• Researcher for Greig Watson’s BBC Article ‘Operation Gomorrah: Firestorm created ‘Germany’s Nagasaki’, BBC News, 2 August 2018: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-43546839

Editorial Experience

• Editorial Board Member for the Journal of Aeronautical History, Royal Aeronautical Society, April 2022 - present

• Peer Review for the academic journal Nacelles: Past and Present of Aeronautics and Space, April 2021

• Historical consultant for Will Iredale’s The Pathfinders (2021) https://www.waterstones.com/book/the-pathfinders/will-iredale/9780753557808

• Currently Assistant Editor of scholarly online airpower platform ‘From Balloons to Drones’ alongside Dr Ross Mahoney, Dr Brian Laslie, Dr Michael Hankins, Dr Maria E. Burczynska, Dr Luke Truxal and Ashleigh Brown: https://balloonstodrones.com/editors/