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Jenny Grant @silenceinpolish.bsky.social · 13h

Rapid return to health 🤞

Jenny Grant @silenceinpolish.bsky.social · 14h

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

ALT: three planes are flying in a row in a cloudy sky

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Jenny Grant @silenceinpolish.bsky.social · 5d

Everywhere!

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Jenny Grant @silenceinpolish.bsky.social · 5d

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.

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Jenny Grant @silenceinpolish.bsky.social · 17d

Thank you 😍

Jenny Grant @silenceinpolish.bsky.social · 17d

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.

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Jenny Grant @silenceinpolish.bsky.social · 21d

Sending out this year's programme for the Institute of Polish Military History #WW2 talks:

polishheritage.co.uk/ipmh-program-2…

https://polishheritage.co.uk/ipmh-program-2…

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Jenny Grant @silenceinpolish.bsky.social · 22d

Karolina Maczek, Maria Polachowska, Halik Kochanski (and me) in discussion about Poland and the Poles at the Chelsea History Festival on 25th September

chelseaheritagequarter.co.uk/chf/the-pric...

The Price of Victory: Poland after the Second World War - Chelsea Heritage Quarter

Join our panel of experts as they discuss the Polish contribution to the Allied war effort in the Second World War and beyond.

chelseaheritagequarter.co.uk

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Jenny Grant @silenceinpolish.bsky.social · 28d

Would like to send out a huge thank you to Marcin at The Little Angel in Henley for stopping his van to help my mum when she fell over in the street, and for chatting with her in Polish and looking after her while an ambulance was called.

🙏

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Jenny Grant @silenceinpolish.bsky.social · 28d

Russia leading in the 'mass grave' category, presumably

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Jenny Grant @silenceinpolish.bsky.social · Sep 10

a man in a suit and tie is standing in front of a wall with a candle .

ALT: a man in a suit and tie is standing in front of a wall with a candle .

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Clare Mulley @claremulley.bsky.social · Aug 30

Great first day at the @IWMDuxford #historyfestival. @silenceinpolish.bsky.social & I discussed Poland’s war, chaired by @frasermccallum.bsky.social. Tomorrow I’m interviewing #RichardEvans followed by a talk on #AgentZo…

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Bad Squiddo Games (Annie) @badsquiddogames.bsky.social · Aug 30

Ahhhh what a lovely day at IWM Duxford, got a chance to chat with @claremulley.bsky.social and Jenny Grant, two mega mega cool authors. Showed them some minis but I knew I shouldn't have got Turkey Man out. He forced his way out I couldn't stop him!

Three well cool ladies (clare Mulley, jenny grant and Annie norman)

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Clare Mulley @claremulley.bsky.social · Aug 29

This weekend, #IWMDuxford history fest. I’m talking with @silenceinpolish.bsky.social tomorrow, & #SirRichardEvans Sunday, before talking solo about #AgentZo. Many other excellent talks & events too!

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Jenny Grant @silenceinpolish.bsky.social · Aug 29

A remnant of an earlier age

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Jim Wald @citizenwald.bsky.social · Aug 24

My idea of a good time
Gen. Stanisław Maczek, commander of the #Polish First Armoured Division having drinks while sitting on a captured Nazi flag after the costly Battle of Falaise
Fellow historian Jenny Grant @SilenceInPolish has edited his memoirs
www.penandswordbooks...

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map: The formation of the Falaise pocket, from 8–17 August 1944
Canadian forces marked by brown arrows, move southeast from Caen in Ioerations Totalize and Tractable, split the German 7th Army to the West and 5th Panzer Army to the east
British 2nd Army is farther west, US First and Third Armies west and south

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falaise_pocket#/media/File:Operation_Tractable.svg

map: German counter-attacks against Canadian-Polish positions on 20 August 1944

Nazi infantry and Panzer forces (including SS) move east to attack Polish forces on high ground, as 9th and 2nd SS Panzers attack from north and east

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falaise_pocket#/media/File:Hill_262_20_Aug_1944.svg

Maczek (middle-aged man, seated at right) talks to two other seated comrades
Other soldiers stand at rear (in front of camouflage netting) and front

Maczek and many of the other hold small glasses of a dark liquid that appears to be wine

The men are sitting/standing on a Nazi flag with swastika. On top of it is a low table with a bottle along with more small filled glasses

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Jenny Grant @silenceinpolish.bsky.social · Aug 19

Evil captain motives. Never forgave the place for cancelling Firefly.

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Jenny Grant @silenceinpolish.bsky.social · Aug 19

Why are the crew not all mushed up by the collision?

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Jenny Grant @silenceinpolish.bsky.social · Aug 19

The weariness! Alien: Planet Earth

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Jenny Grant @silenceinpolish.bsky.social · Aug 19

I simply would not name a spaceship 'Maginot'

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Jenny Grant @silenceinpolish.bsky.social · Aug 19

Flew with 301. Thank you!

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Jenny Grant @silenceinpolish.bsky.social · Aug 19

Hot on the heels of Paul Beaver, @claremulley.bsky.social and I will be discussing all things Poland 1945, ably chaired by Fraser McCallum.

Do join us on Saturday 30th September at @IWMDuxford:

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Jenny Grant @silenceinpolish.bsky.social · Aug 15

Hmmm. Given I've been griping about the failure to include the Poles as an ethnic minority in surveys, I'd feel hypocritical grousing. I'd also require a 'mixed' because, y'know, mixed.

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sianushka.bsky.social @sianushka.bsky.social · Aug 14

John Bolton said re Ukraine/Trump, “a land swap is also a people swap, you are condemning people to live under an authoritarian regime.”

It’s so important people understand this. Land is where people live. Ukrainians living under occupation suffer violence & oppression & war crimes.

They matter.

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Jenny Grant @silenceinpolish.bsky.social · Aug 11

Wartime Cairo, and a lucky Scottish soldier meets three Polish drivers keen to compare the shapeliness of their knees.

My gran - on the right. Sigh.

#WarIsHell

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