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...

Kraków, December 1932 🎄 (NAC)

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.

🇵🇱🚨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

I think this may top Enigma

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...

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.

I make no apologies

Local chap found with a box of model aircraft and notes about the pilots who flew them. Absolute star 🌟

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 🙏

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.

Sending out this year's programme for the Institute of Polish Military History #WW2 talks: polishheritage.co.uk/ipmh-program-2…

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...

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. 🙏

Russia leading in the 'mass grave' category, presumably

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…

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!

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!

A remnant of an earlier age

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...#Polish 4/10

I simply would not name a spaceship 'Maginot'

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:

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.

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

Gardening temporarily halted

North Devon Maritime Museum, and the chance to explain Hobart's Funnies to 6-year-old nephew. Underwhelmed he was.

Spell check is gaslighting me

I am delighted to say that the Audible audiobook version of Britain at Bay is finally available in the UK. 🇬🇧 There won’t be any need to wait so long for the audiobook of the sequel Advance Britannia as that will be released worldwide on publication in November. www.audible.co.uk/pd/Britain-a...

15 minutes. And counting.

I've realised my entire PhD is essentially Victor Meldrew yelling at administrative structures which are irrational, ineffective and infuriating. How dispiriting.

Honoured to be sharing a panel at the Chelsea History Festival with Halik Kochanski, Maria Polachowska, and Karolina Maczek. We'll be picking apart the Polish contribution to the War in the West, and exploring the longer-term legacy of the conflict. chelseaheritagequarter.co.uk/chf/the-pric...

Absolutely privileged to be sharing my research into the long-term legacy of the Anglo-Polish alliance with @FCDOGovUK tomorrow.

Too hot to be a swan

Supervision session - we're beginning to talk about submitting the final chapter and tidying everything up. The end is in sight!

82 years ago today, General Władysław Sikorski was killed after taking off from Gibraltar, along with his daughter, members of his staff, and two British MPs. www.cwgc.org/our-work/blo...

Is it even a summer holiday if you're not eating a sausage butty and watching Mike Loades wielding a lance

Just signed off an email with 'Many Tanks', and might now stick to that.

It's 'The Third World War', not 'World War Three'. Standards matter.

The Poles return to Duxford! @claremulley and I will be discussing aspects of the Polish contribution to Allied victory. I'll be the one stroking the Hurricane... www.iwm.org.uk/events/iwm-d...

Penley - Polish Graves Community Day