Lunchtime Talk: Remembering the Battle of Britain

This Armistice Day, hear how the events of the Battle of Britain have been remembered at Westminster Abbey.
About this Event

Dr Harry Raffal of the Royal Air Force Museum will reflect on the ways in which the events of the Battle of Britain have been recounted and commemorated over the last 85 years.
About the speaker

Harry Raffal is the Head of Collections and Research at the Royal Air Force Museum. He holds a doctorate from the University of Hull for his thesis on the operations of the RAF and Luftwaffe during the evacuation of Dunkirk. He is a Committee member of the British Commission for Military History, Vice-Chair of the Royal Aeronautical Society, Aeronautical Heritage Group, and a Trustee of the RAF Historical Society. He has previously published research on the RAF in the Battle of France, the Malayan campaign, the Third Afghan War, and the online development of the Ministry of Defence and Armed Forces. He is the author of Air Power and the Evacuation of Dunkirk and co-editor of an anthology of case studies examining the employment of Close Air Support.

Agenda

🕑: 12:45 PM
Doors open
🕑: 01:00 PM
Talk begins
🕑: 01:40 PM
Q&A