91,121 words of the PhD thesis submitted for the internal reader. And now to have a holiday.
Delighted to be speaking at this year's We Have Ways Festival about the arrival of the exiled Allies in the UK in 1940: 'Goats, Guns and Motorcycles' - Friday 11th September. @WeHaveWaysPod wehavewaysfest.co.uk/whwf6-speake...
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We Have Ways Fest is the UK’s number one, Second World War festival. Tanks, talks and tankards … experts, enthusiasts, authors, historians. Blackpit Farm, 8th – 10th September. WN…
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🛩 🇵🇱 POLISH AIR FORCE DAY - 11th July A whole day of talks and tours at the Battle of Britain Bunker Uxbridge - home of 303
Online, Saturday 11:30 BST I'll be discussing the Imperial War Grave Commission's policy of honouring the Polish war dead, during and after #WW2 Honouring the Polish Dead: The Imperial War Graves Commission Date: 25 apr • 11:30 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/honouring-...
Honouring the Polish Dead: The Imperial War Graves Commission
Honouring the Polish Dead: The Imperial War Graves Commission and the Politics of Post-War Commemoration.
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Caernarfon Castle Most famous for being the site of Polish Commando training in the Second World War
NEW: Organ tuners have been leaving temperature and humidity records in little-known books for decades. 🎹 They reveal how temperatures inside churches have changed over time due to climate change and increased heating. A new scoop for The Reengineer! www.thereengineer.pro/p/church-org...
Church organ tuning records mirror our warming climate
The records appear to reflect climate change, as well as the increased heating of churches in winter
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Wishing you and your families a very merry Christmas 🎄 Wesołych Świąt ❤️
Polish soldiers in Iraq improvise a Christmas tree, 1942 (NAC)
Later in the day, Mrs Churchill would be loaned a greatcoat by a Polish officer since her own thin affair was by no means adequate for Cupar's weather.
News Of The War Pod@newsofthewar.bsky.social · 8mo ago🇵🇱 “Prime Minister and Mrs Churchill accompanied by CIGS - Sir John Dill, Maj Gen Ismay and Commander Thomson inspect Polish battalions. They are met by General Sikorski at Cupar, Scotland” 🏴 🎥 AYY 49 @andyaitch.bsky.social @merrynwalters.uk @silenceinpolish.bsky.social linktr.ee/NewsOfTheWar
🇵🇱🚨READ ALL ABOUDDIT!! Yes, it’s a #NewsoftheWar special, and we’re welcoming a very Special Guest Editor, @silenceinpolish.bsky.social , Jenny Grant, to give us all the low-down on Polish troops, as found in the news, from 1939 to 1945.🗞️ @andyaitch.bsky.social @merrynwalters.uk
And what’s next after this #NewsoftheWar special? Great recommendations for you, from @silenceinpolish.bsky.social – check out General Maciek's memoirs, the Forgotten Few, and Ksawery Pruszynski too. Thanks Jenny!
Amelia Laskowska - Polish fencing champion, sports journalist and, once in wartime Britain, publishing entrepreneur and creator of the first diary for Poles in the West.
Do find 3 minutes to listen to the Polish Army Choir singing 'The Road to the Isles' from 1941 🇵🇱🏴 youtu.be/uug_tyCE-xI?si… via @YouTube
POLISH ARMY CHOIR The Road To The Isles (Restored)
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This will definitely include the Poles, yes? The second most spoken language in England, Spitfire pilots and recent generational trauma? Honestly, we have it all.
Ognisko will be celebrating Polish Independence Day with a discussion on 'Freedom: The Passion and Quest for Poland's Sovereignty'. I'll be joining a formidable panel including Paul Latawski, Halik Kochanski, @mpolachowska and @stefanwagstyl www.ogniskopolskie.org.uk/product/11-n...
Ognisko Polskie - Polish Hearth
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An unknown woman leaves flowers at the grave of F/Lt Stefan Kryński at Newark. The IWGC committed to honour the Allied war dead as it did those of Britain and the Commonwealth, and designed the wooden crosses in consultation with the Polish Services. #AllSouls
A scavenge, if I may... A beautiful wartime Polish book has come onto the market, with an inscription by the author. These moments of Anglo-Polish cooperation are so precious - and academically fascinating. If you could spare a few pennies... gofund.me/639ea0470
An 18-page document of absolute dynamite - and I'm just overcome by autumnal snooziness. Possibly becoming a cat.
Local chap found with a box of model aircraft and notes about the pilots who flew them. Absolute star 🌟
Jenny Grant@silenceinpolish.bsky.social · 10mo agoModellers - the call you have been waiting all your lives for...! Does anyone have any models of #WW2 aircraft they could drop by a school in Newbury tomorrow? A group of students wants to film a scene - presumably with them going "Pew! Pew! Nerrrrr!" Please share 🙏
Modellers - the call you have been waiting all your lives for...! Does anyone have any models of #WW2 aircraft they could drop by a school in Newbury tomorrow? A group of students wants to film a scene - presumably with them going "Pew! Pew! Nerrrrr!" Please share 🙏
three planes are flying in a row in a cloudy sky
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A report from the first quarter of the 19th century observed the westward migration of Polish families into German villages: 'The substitution of the sign 'Sklep' for 'Laden' on the shops became a token of a farther advance of Polish civilisation.' All hail the Polski Sklep.
Choo choo do Londynu! To my *sold out* panel discussion on Poland after the Second World War at the @ChelseaHistFest - with the formidable Halik Kochanski, @mpolachowska, and Justin Maciejewski.
