Lily Ford is a historian and filmmaker with a PhD from Birkbeck, University of London, in the cultural history of flight. Her book on this subject, Taking to the Air, was published in 2018. Lily has herself made films on both contemporary and historical subjects (A Humbrol Art: The Paintings of George Shaw, 2018; Fallen Women, 2016), as well as producing films with others, notably the feature documentary The Seasons in Quincy: Four Portraits of John Berger, 2016. She teaches on the Derek Jarman Lab’s Audio-Visual Practice as Research course and the Pittsburgh-London Film Programme. She is currently researching women in early British aviation.