Teresa here remembers her mother pinching her when she was small, to make her cry, helping her smuggle messages through checkpoints for the Polish resistance during #WW2… 🧵🪡 1/3

Teresa here remembers her mother pinching her when she was small, to make her cry, helping her smuggle messages through checkpoints for the Polish resistance during #WW2… 🧵🪡 1/3

Amaretto Virtuoso and a good read while in Lisbon. #agentzo @claremulley.bsky.social

A joy of speaking at @imperialwarmuseums #London is seeing the art behind #StaffOnly doors… I partic love these 2: 1) Evelyn Dunbar, Land Army Women Dairy Training (1940) at Sparsholt Farm Inst. By 1943, 20,000 ‘Land Girls’ were working in dairy alone. At front is José Loosore

A wee bit of filming at #ImperialWarMuseum London today, before my spot at their podcast fest. I was interviewed for the #AuthorsOfHistory pod. (Pic 2: No matter how often producers tell me not to gesticulate so widely/wildly, I’m telling big stories & my arms tend to go for it!)

Superb day at the IWM for their first Podcast Live event. So good to catch up with some of the greatest historians today. @tessadunlop.bsky.social @claremulley.bsky.social @historywithjackson.bsky.social Ian Pegg, Oliver Webb Carter, Jack Bowsher

A wee bit of filming at #ImperialWarMuseum London today, before my spot at their podcast fest. I was interviewed for the #AuthorsOfHistory pod. (Pic 2: No matter how often producers tell me not to gesticulate so widely/wildly, I’m telling big stories & my arms tend to go for it!)

I love London! The Thames, and the Tower, after the rain…. #London #TheThames

#HistoryBookChat This looks like an amazing book about some brilliant female aviators who opened up the world in the early days of aviation. #AvGeek #AvGeeks #Skystorians

Lovely eve celebrating publication of my friend @midgegillies.bsky.social new bk #AtlanticFuries, abt the women who risked everything to be the 1st to fly. The Telegraph said Midge’s previous biog of #AmyJohnson had them ‘gripped, exhilarated and moved’ ✈️✈️

Congratulations to Frank McDonough on publication of the latest volume of his #SecondWorldWar series, this one focused on the Holocaust. @paulmcgannon.bsky.social read very movingly from the book, at @hatchards.bsky.social this evening.

#OnAKnifeEdge! Wonderful to see this in @waterstones.bsky.social Piccadilly this eve! (Lots of signed copies of #AgentZo now in-store, + 1 signed copy of #TheWomenWhoFlewForHitler!)

Congratulations to Frank McDonough on publication of the latest volume of his #SecondWorldWar series, this one focused on the Holocaust. @paulmcgannon.bsky.social read very movingly from the book, at @hatchards.bsky.social this evening.

#OnAKnifeEdge! Wonderful to see this in @waterstones.bsky.social Piccadilly this eve! (Lots of signed copies of #AgentZo now in-store, + 1 signed copy of #TheWomenWhoFlewForHitler!)

Interesting to see this at London’s Tower Hill tube. I’ve been working hard to make many more of these women known… but let’s remember them all!

Grt to be back at @wimbookfest.bsky.social this w/end, bumping into @historyalice.bsky.social& classicist Daisy Dunn before my event (#AgentZo) with the brilliant @annesebba.bsky.social (Womens Orchestra Of Auschwitz), excellently chaired by Virago’s #LennieGoodings. Thanks to all who came! 📘📗📙📕📖🎾

I love these angelic sculptures from my fella, Ian Wolter ‘s latest collection. Now on display - & for sale - at the #GuildfordHouseGallery 🪽🪽

My interview with legendary #2WW historian #RichardJEvans about his latest book #HitlersPeople, for @jewishliteraryfoundation.co.uk, is now on youtube: jewishliteraryfoundation.co.uk/videos/richa... It was fascinating…

My interview with legendary #2WW historian #RichardJEvans about his latest book #HitlersPeople, for @jewishliteraryfoundation.co.uk, is now on youtube: jewishliteraryfoundation.co.uk/videos/richa... It was fascinating…

Apologies if you’re trying to reach me by Facebook. Seems I’ve been thrown off - no reason given?! Please reconnect with me there (when I’m allowed back) or on other socials!

Marking the 80th anniv of the #PolishUndergroundMovementStudyTrust & #PolishInstituteAndSikorskiMuseum, alongside #JustinMaciejewski, dir of the #NationalArmyMuseum. At London’s elegant Polish Club, Ognisko Polskie, in the rooms where the first mtg was held!

What a great story for #WaterlooDay. Honourable bandsman in an 1821 painting has been identified as #ThomasJames, 1 of 9 Black soldiers to receive the #Waterloo medal, & of many to serve…

Whey-hey!! AGENT ZO has been shortlisted for the Polish Foreign Ministry’s biannual history book prize! I couldn’t be more delighted! Full list: www.gov.pl/web/diplomac...

Been revisiting old Battling with Business episodes, starting with one of my favourites: "The Polish Resistance fighter known as Zo", featuring @claremulley.bsky.social on the remarkable Elżbieta Zawacka. Still one of our best. Come for the podcast, stay for Clare's book!

Whey-hey!! AGENT ZO has been shortlisted for the Polish Foreign Ministry’s biannual history book prize! I couldn’t be more delighted! Full list: www.gov.pl/web/diplomac...

A wonderful evening walking & talking in beautiful #Gdańsk. This historic city is bursting with museums, bars & cafés, much like the rest of Poland. What a fabulous, & often very moving, couple of weeks I’ve had here. Dziękujemy za miłe powitanie! 🇵🇱🇬🇧📖📕

A wonderful evening walking & talking in beautiful #Gdańsk. This historic city is bursting with museums, bars & cafés, much like the rest of Poland. What a fabulous, & often very moving, couple of weeks I’ve had here. Dziękujemy za miłe powitanie! 🇵🇱🇬🇧📖📕

Not a bad venue for the last talk of my Polish tour, the #2WW museum in #Gdańsk! Other pic shows the fabulous #DrAndrzejDrzycimski. If you have read #AgentZo - it was his taped interviews with #Zo during the communist era that gave me so much material. Home tomorrow!

Last Polish event for #AgentkaZo at the Polish #SecondWorldWar Museum in #Gdańsk tonight!

Delighted to have been interviewed for the current issue of #Poland’s #Sieci magazine. Headline is: #WomenInTheSpotlight - in this case #KrystynaSkarbek aka #ChristineGranville #TheSpyWhoLoved, & #ElżbietaZawacka aka #AgentZo.

In a beautiful moment last night, after my talk on #AgentZo at the #PolishAviationMuseum in #Kraków, Benedict told me the story of his parents: mother in the #FANY working with the Polish forces, father a Polish airman…

Exquisite St Mary’s Church this morning. With thanks to former Polish Ambassador to Britain, @arkadyrzegocki for being my guide at the church, & the 19c art collection in the #Sukiennice gallery in #RynekGłowny, #Kraków.

On this day nurse #EdithCavell and #PhilipeBaucq were shot at dawn for helping allied soldiers to escape Belgium during the First World War. This is a letter from one of those soldiers.

In a beautiful moment last night, after my talk on #AgentZo at the #PolishAviationMuseum in #Kraków, Benedict told me the story of his parents: mother in the #FANY working with the Polish forces, father a Polish airman…

Happy #WorldBookshopDay! In 1610, Cologne merchant Francisek Jakub Mercenich estab. ‘an open shop on the street, where books are sold’ in #Kraków’s old square. This is the oldest #bookshop in #Poland, & among the oldest in #Europe. Today it’s selling signed copies of #AgentZo!

Happy #WorldBookshopDay! In 1610, Cologne merchant Francisek Jakub Mercenich estab. ‘an open shop on the street, where books are sold’ in #Kraków’s old square. This is the oldest #bookshop in #Poland, & among the oldest in #Europe. Today it’s selling signed copies of #AgentZo!

Arrived #Kraków in the gloaming… Such an exquisitely beautiful city…

Arrived #Kraków in the gloaming… Such an exquisitely beautiful city…

How fab are these murals designs for murals, hopefully to go on bldings in Poznań! Created by design students, these 2 show #KrysrynaSkarkek aka #ChristineGranville, #TheSpyWhoLoved, & #ElżbietaZawacka aka #AgentZo! I LOVE these images, do you?

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

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.

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! . #ElżbietaZawacka #Zo #AgentZo #AgentkaZo

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!

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…

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…

Such fun being interviewed by Caesar here, for his Polish #Historia youtube channel. I’ve been given a wonderfully warm welcome everywhere :)

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

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

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!