I'll be on Times Radio at 9:15pm this evening chatting all things #EagleDays with Geoff Norcott! Grab your nightly cocoa and come sit down - I promise it'll be worth staying up for ☕️✈️ thetimes.com/radio/live

Thank you so much to everyone who has been tweeting me all your kind excitement now that #EagleDays has landed on your doormats! I am so thrilled that many of you are enjoying reading it so far - thank you for always being so uplifting & positive 🥰 happy #BankHoliday reading!

I also didn't talk about the huge speed discrepancy as we were talking about armament & manoeuvrability more than anything but - Boulton Paul Defiant top speed: 313 mph, Junkers Ju 87 Stuka top speed: 230 mph. *Surely* the Defiant, as an interceptor, would come out on top...!

"From the moment I turned the first page of this lovely book, I realised I was in for a treat." Thank you so much, LoveReading, for your wonderful review of #EagleDays! So very glad you enjoyed it 🥰 Head of Zeus Georgina Capel Assoc lovereading.co.uk/book/978180454…

A tremendous honour to give a talk about #EagleDays and present copies of the book to officers & crew on board HMS Queen Elizabeth! Very touching as the granddaughter of two Royal Navy veterans. Thank you for the tour - and thanks Osprey Publishing & Bloomsbury Books UK for arranging the day! ⚓️✈️

109 years ago today the Battle of Jutland was fought in the North Sea between the British Grand Fleet and the German High Sea Fleet. It is notorious that to this day many of us in the United Kingdom have re-fought the battle again and again in print. A thread: 1/

The best host I could ask for - thank you so much, Black Robertson! And, everyone, please keep your eyes peeled for Black's new Grub Street Publishing book #TheShyAssassin on the fascinating life of Cyril ‘Frank’ Babbage. Preorder link is here: waterstones.com/book/the-shy-a…

I am SO excited to announce a truly unique event! In honour of #EagleDays, myself & IWM Principal Curator #JamesTaylor will be conducting an exclusive, personalised tour of Imperial War Museums London's Second World War Galleries on 13 August. Tickets available here: iwm.org.uk/events/my-iwm-…

"Taylor has done the historiography of the battle an enormous favour. I struggle to recall any other book that so comprehensively deals with the Luftwaffe experience of the battle." Thank you Robert Lyman 🇺🇦 for your kind #EagleDays review - 'Korea: War Without End' is on my list!

"Comprehensive, multi-layered & filled with rich detail & contemporary eyewitness accounts, many translated into English for the first time. A riveting & timely read from one of our finest young historians." Lovely to see this #EagleDays review in the Daily Express/ The Mirror

Not sure what to get Dad for #FathersDay? Why not gift him a copy of #EagleDays - or, indeed, pick up a copy early to make sure that Mum doesn't go empty-handed on Mother's Day next year? 😎 Animation by Gaz: tiktok.com/@SpitfireCGI youtube.com/channel/UCaTJc…

Thank you for this write-up, Freeman Air and Space Institute! I appreciate Air Commodore Ashit Mehta's kind words: ‘This is a perspective which we need to understand. Dr Taylor’s presentation was outstanding, highlighting just how the Battle of Britain was fought & ultimately won by the Allies.’

A teacher told me, "I gave one of my 2nd grade (dyslexic) students your nature poetry prompt. He is reluctant to write because of challenges with spelling, but I suspect he’s gifted. I told him just to write and we’d sort out the spelling later. This is what he wrote."

Good to have some proper industrial history commentary on the timline, in the form of a joke.

SO very excited that myself & Principal Curator James Taylor be taking a group around Imperial War Museums London tomorrow on the 85th anniversary of #EagleDay! Our private tour will be covering the #BattleOfBritain and #TheBlitz. Thank you to everyone who has made it a sold-out event 🥹♥️

Come enjoy my additional research rabbit holes via a mix of free & paid articles on #AllAndSundry - my brand-new aviation history Substack! We're kicking off with a two-parter entitled 'Conquerors of the Skies': Part 1 open.substack.com/pub/spitfirefi… Part 2 open.substack.com/pub/spitfirefi…

A pleasure to present a new project for Imperial War Museums Duxford today - looking forward to sharing the final result in due course! 🎥 Also just had to take a picture with this Bf 109 E that is crumped just like the one on the front cover of #EagleDays...

A tremendous honour to give the speeches for the Defence Academy's Battle of Britain Dinner Night at Shrivenham! Thank you Andrew Tait for the kind words - and may we drink to #TheFew on this #BattleOfBritainDay 🥃 Freeman Air and Space Institute King's College London Alex

Fabulous to pop into Times Radio today and chat with Hugo Rifkind on the importance of continuing to mark the #BattleOfBritain each year 📻 #BoB85

Mandatory workplace training feeling particularly British the afternoon