The Power of RAF Organisational Culture

In this video Air Commodore Fin Monahan will examine how RAF organisational culture emerged, highlighting some of its key features, and how this research is being brought to bear as part of the ASTRA innovation programme. This free lecture is part of the RAF Museum's Research Lecture Programme. If you would like to support the RAF Museum, you can make a donation at: https://support.rafmuseum.org/Donate-Now TALK OUTLINE The first independent air f...

The End of Gentlemanly Warfare Great Britain’s Evolving Arguments for Strategic Bombing 1930 - 1945

In this lecture Katie Brown analyses the rhetoric employed in British arguments for and against strategic bombing. This free Trenchard lecture is supported by the Royal Aeronautical Society and is part of the RAF Museum's Research Lecture Programme. You can find out more about the RAeS at http://www.aerosociety.com/ If you would like to support the RAF Museum, you can make a donation a...

The Influence of the Butt Report and the Boulogne-Billancourt Raid on Policy Change

In this talk Dr Stephen Moore explores the influence of the Butt Report and the Boulogne-Billancourt raid on the RAF's move toward the area bombing offensive. This free lecture is part of the RAF Museum's Research Lecture Programme. If you'd like to support the RAF Museum, you can make a donation at: https://support.rafmuseum.org/Donate-Now TALK OUTLINE The publication of the Butt report in August 194...

Incompatible with Service Life

25 years ago the ban on LGBT+ people serving in the British Armed Forces was removed. When in 1967 homosexuality was legalised in British society, at the same time new legislation came into effect which forbade gay personnel from serving in the Armed Forces. On 12 January 2000 this law was repealed after the European Court of Human Rights ruled that it violated Article 8 of the Human Rights Act: the right to a private and family life. During the ban, an...

'Land of the RAF' Desert Flight in Mandatory Iraq

In this lecture Anna Feuer examines the “environmental imaginary” that contributed to the particular appeal of the RAF’s air control scheme in Iraq under the British mandate. This free lecture is part of the RAF Museum's Research Lecture Programme. If you would like to support the RAF Museum, you can make a donation at: https://support.rafmuseum.org/Donate-Now TALK OUTLINE How do counterinsurgents assess and respond to challenges ...

Building an Arsenal, Future Procurement Challenges for Global Air Forces

This is an RAF Museum event organised in collaboration with Lancaster University's Centre for War and Diplomacy. This lecture was held at Lancaster University and is part of the RAF Museum's Research Lecture Programme in 2021. Talk Outline The use of air power, like any other military force, is now becoming increasingly complicated. Missions are changing from the traditional ones exhibited in the interstate confl...