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Clare Mulley
@claremulley.bsky.social
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Author of The #SpyWhoLoved (freedom), #WomenWhoFlewForHitler (but ended their lives on opposite sides of history), #WomanWhoSavedTheChildren (but didn’t like them much). #AgentZo (what a hero).
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Clare Mulley @claremulley.bsky.social · 1h
On 15 Nov, I’ll be talking about my book #AgentZo with @jamesholland.com & @jooonitz.bsky.social at Lessons Learned, the 1-day #WWII history festival at @jockeyclub.bsky.social in Newmarket. Tickets at eafestival.com
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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 1d
Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.
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Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.
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Clare Mulley @claremulley.bsky.social · 19h
Beautiful Poznań in the rain 🌧️
I’ve just given a talk in the #Enigma #Cipher Centre at Poznań University where #Zo studied maths alongside #MarianRejewski, the man who first broke the German enigma system!
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#ElżbietaZawacka #Zo #AgentZo #AgentkaZo
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Clare Mulley @claremulley.bsky.social · 1d
it was an honour to officially launch the Polish edition of my book, #AgentkaZo, under the 4-engine American Liberator bomber in the main hall of the @warsawrisingmuseum .
Several children of the elite Polish #2WW special forces, the #Cichociemni or #SilentUnseen were with us!
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Clare Mulley @claremulley.bsky.social · 1d
it was an honour to officially launch the Polish edition of my book, #AgentkaZo, under the 4-engine American Liberator bomber in the main hall of the @warsawrisingmuseum .
Several children of the elite Polish #2WW special forces, the #Cichociemni or #SilentUnseen were with us!
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Clare Mulley @claremulley.bsky.social · 1d
In Sept 1943, #ElżbietaZawacka aka #Zo became the only woman to parachute from Britain to Nazi German occupied Poland, leaping from. British 4-engine Halifax bomber.
This evening…
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Clare Mulley @claremulley.bsky.social · 1d
it was an honour to officially launch the Polish edition of my book, #AgentkaZo, under the 4-engine American Liberator bomber in the main hall of the @warsawrisingmuseum .
Several children of the elite Polish #2WW special forces, the #Cichociemni or #SilentUnseen were with us!
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Clare Mulley @claremulley.bsky.social · 1d
In Sept 1943, #ElżbietaZawacka aka #Zo became the only woman to parachute from Britain to Nazi German occupied Poland, leaping from. British 4-engine Halifax bomber.
This evening…
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Clare Mulley @claremulley.bsky.social · 2d
Such fun being interviewed by Caesar here, for his Polish #Historia youtube channel.
I’ve been given a wonderfully warm welcome everywhere :)
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Clare Mulley @claremulley.bsky.social · 2d
Interviewed by Polish @TVPWorld_com abt the Polish elite special forces in #WW2, the #Cichociemni or #SilentUnseen.
After training in GB under #SOE auspices, 316 were parachuted behind enemy lines to support resistance… inc 1 woman: #ElżbietaZawacka #Zo.
#AgentZo #AgentkaZo
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Clare Mulley @claremulley.bsky.social · 2d
Interviewed by Polish @TVPWorld_com abt the Polish elite special forces in #WW2, the #Cichociemni or #SilentUnseen.
After training in GB under #SOE auspices, 316 were parachuted behind enemy lines to support resistance… inc 1 woman: #ElżbietaZawacka #Zo.
#AgentZo #AgentkaZo
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Clare Mulley @claremulley.bsky.social · 3d
An honour to present a talk to, then be interviewed by Capt Banasiak of, 8th Brig, Polish Territorial Defence Forces - the Gen Elżbieta Zawacka Brigade - at #WSBMerito uni in #Bydgoszcz.
There were several female soldiers among them; #Zawacka, aka #Zo, would have bn delighted!
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Clare Mulley @claremulley.bsky.social · 3d
An honour to present a talk to, then be interviewed by Capt Banasiak of, 8th Brig, Polish Territorial Defence Forces - the Gen Elżbieta Zawacka Brigade - at #WSBMerito uni in #Bydgoszcz.
There were several female soldiers among them; #Zawacka, aka #Zo, would have bn delighted!
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Clare Mulley @claremulley.bsky.social · 4d
Great to be on Polish national RadioPiK this morning, talking about one of the first women to serve in #WW2, & only the second female General in Poland: #ElżbietaZawacka aka #Zo, & my new biography #AgentZo #AgentkaZo!
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Clare Mulley @claremulley.bsky.social · 4d
I did gain an interest in Polish history then. But I’m interested in everything. Only 2 of my 5 books touch on Poland.
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Clare Mulley @claremulley.bsky.social · 4d
Great to be on Polish national RadioPiK this morning, talking about one of the first women to serve in #WW2, & only the second female General in Poland: #ElżbietaZawacka aka #Zo, & my new biography #AgentZo #AgentkaZo!
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Clare Mulley @claremulley.bsky.social · 4d
heading to Bydgoszcz - the first Polish town I ever visited, as a volunteer English teacher over 30 years ago!
Last pics show the onward tour, in case you can join me today in #Bydgoszcz or then in #Warsaw, #Poznań, #Kraków or #Gdańsk?!
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Clare Mulley @claremulley.bsky.social · 4d
Farewell beautiful #Toruń!
Just time for a cocktail before…
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Clare Mulley @claremulley.bsky.social · 5d
Yes, while researching the book. I promised her then I’d tell her story.
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Clare Mulley @claremulley.bsky.social · 5d
Paying my respects at the grave of the teacher, soldier, historian General Professor Elżbieta Zawacka, aka Zo, this morning at St George’s cemetery, Toruń.
White and red flowers, the colours of Poland.
#ElżbietaZawacka #cichociemni #cichociemna #Zo #AgentZo #AgentkaZo
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Clare Mulley @claremulley.bsky.social · 6d
Wonderful to see this mural of her life; the 4-engine British Halifax bomber, her parachuting down, #BigBen in #London, her service as a clandestine courier for the resistance during the #SecondWorldWar, & later life still defiant!
#ElżbietaZawacka #AgentZo
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Clare Mulley @claremulley.bsky.social · 5d
Wonderful to meet #Zo’s niece/cousin Dorota Zawacka Wakarecy again today. Dorota runs the Zawacka archive in #Toruń, which hosted a press conf for the Polish edn of my biog of #ElżbietaZawacka aka #AgentkaZo today… her blessing for the book meant the world to me!
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Clare Mulley @claremulley.bsky.social · 6d
Wonderful to see this mural of her life; the 4-engine British Halifax bomber, her parachuting down, #BigBen in #London, her service as a clandestine courier for the resistance during the #SecondWorldWar, & later life still defiant!
#ElżbietaZawacka #AgentZo
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Clare Mulley @claremulley.bsky.social · 6d
Literally bringing #Zo’s story home!
This morning I visited Zo’s communist era apartment block in her home town of #Toruń…. ½🧵
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Clare Mulley @claremulley.bsky.social · 6d
Tonight I am a very happy author…
I have just found #AgentkaZo, my biography of inspirational resistance fighter #ElżbietaZawacka, in the bookshops of her home town: #Toruń.
My 6-city Polish tour starts tomorrow!
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