Online access to the RAF Museum conference is free and we welcome everyone who wishes to attend.  During the conference we will provide opportunities for those who wish to make a donation, to help the Museum meet the cost of hosting the conference, to do so.

The conference will bring together an interdisciplinary field of scholars working on topics which relate to air forces, their personnel and technology, the economies and societies they interact with, the conflicts in which they have engaged, and the global and international context with which they are connected. The conference will present research which explores the meaning of parts of the past and establish their importance to the historical whole.

RAF Museum

Professional Month

RAF Museum Conference: Meaning, Memory and the (Mis-)Remembered Past

’Don’t Mention the War’: Mis-Remembered Preparations and Occupations

Richard Toye — ‘Bet you’re sorry you won!’: Generations, Authority, and Honour in the Public Memory of the Second World War

Myths and their Meanings in the Present: The Battle Of Britain,  and Africa

Shaping the Aviator: Before, During and After the Second World War

Villains, Meddlers, Fools?: Re-appraising Sandys, Tornado, and the French Aircraft Industry

Productions of the Past: Archives, Paintings, and Representations of Aerial Warfare

Forgotten Efforts from the Second World War

Memory and Media: The Pilot (Mis-) Remembered