Taylor Downing (born 20 July 1953^[1]) is a British historian and television producer. He studied at Latymer Upper School and Christ's College, Cambridge University, where he achieved a Double First in History. He worked at the Imperial War Museum and then for Thames Television for several years. In 1982, he formed a production company Flashback Television, for which he produced more than 300 TV documentaries for British and American broadcasters including several long-running series which have won many awards. He has recently written several popular history books.^[2][3]

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His books include

• 1942: Britain at the Brink
• 1983: The World at the Brink (nominated for the Pushkin Book Prize)
• Night Raid: The True Story of the First Victorious British Para Raid of WWII
• Secret Warriors: Key Scientists, Code Breakers and Propagandists of the Great War
• Breakdown: The Crisis of Shell Shock on the Somme
• Spies In The Sky: The Secret Battle for Aerial Intelligence during World War II
• The World at War
• Churchill's War Lab: Code Breakers, Boffins and Innovators: the Mavericks Churchill Led to Victory
• Cold War with Sir Jeremy Isaacs

Downing is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.