25 September 2025
CWG Chats: The Battle of Britain: A Fading Memory
Join us for CWG Chats: The Battle of Britain: A Fading Memory at 12:30 (BST) on Thursday September 25 2025.
The Battle of Britain is rapidly becoming a written history instead of an oral history, with just the 1968 film to remind people of the events.
This presentation looks at more than just the aircraft, focussing on the people and their many roles within the Battle.
Join our very special guest speaker RAF Museum Curator Andrew Renwick for a deep dive into the Few and the Many who made victory in the skies over Britain possible in the summer of 1940 as we commemorate the 85th anniversary of the Battle of Britain.
Please see your latest digital newsletter, or email supporters@cwgc.org to register!
Our CWG Chats series is in aid of our charitable Foundation and is exclusively for Commonwealth Foundation Members. Sign up today to get access to these talks and more.
Talk Information
- Time & Date: 12:30 (GMT), Thursday September 25 2025.
Registrations will close at 12:30 (GMT), Wednesday 24 September. - Where: Online via Zoom
- Duration: 45 minutes with 15 minute Q&A
- Cost: Our CWG Chats series is in aid of our charitable Foundation, and is free for our Members. To get access to the talk, you will need to become a CWGF Member. Please register today.
A Zoom link will be sent the week commencing 22 September 2025. Please check your email inboxes, including junk and spam, for this invite.
Guest speaker - Andrew Renwick
After graduation from Durham University, Andrew entered the museum world. While working at Stoke-on-Trent City Museum and Art Gallery Andrew helped as a volunteer at the Aerospace Museum at Cosford. In 1985 Andrew joined the staff of the RAF Museum in London.
After working in the Library, Andrew was appointed Curator of Photographs in 1989, a post Andrew still holds today. The collection has seen many changes, not least with the adoption of digital technology and the collections management system.
Andrew is also the Museum’s Copyright Officer and have been lead curator for a number of exhibitions, including Historic Hendon, the Battle of Britain and Higher, Faster Further, the interwar exhibition.
Andrew has given papers and presentations in many locations and had articles published in both aviation and service journals. Andrew completed work on ‘Camera Above the Clouds Volume 3’ following the death of the previous compiler and is the author of ‘RAF Hendon: Birthplace of Aerial Power’.
Become a CWGF Member for free access to CWG Chats (and much more!)
CWG Chats: a series of Curated Conversations are exclusive talks designed for our members to discover more about the work of the Commission, as told by CWGC staff, as well as external speakers.
For just £3 a month, become a member today to support our outreach projects, to get free access to CWGC Chats and much more including:
Photograph by Adrian Moore.