@claremulley.bsky.social
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).
2) #ElżbietaZawacka, an illustrated life by a Polish scout group named in her honour pays wonderful tribute to #AgentZo’s courage & achievements!
I’m delighted to have given cover quotes for 2 very different bks recently…
1) #AnnaThomasson ‘s #AVastHorizon tells the story of Picasso, Lee Miller, Man Ray & their circle fm late summer 1937, layering real upon the surreal to build a fascinating portrait of art, war & life. Out next month :)
? No, I’m a Brit & was talking about Germans
Fabulous photos from yesterday’s #IWD lecture for Cambridge Uni #HPS at the @whipplemuseum.bsky.social …
I love the maths on the blackboards behind me, but who knew I gesticulate so much when I talk!!
Thrilled to be speaking in this beautiful space, #ConvocationHouse, for the #OxfordLitFest 2pm, 24 March, about #AgentZo, a story of female heroism & achievement.
But you could get a ticket just to enjoy this room… part of @bodleian.ox.ac.uk, adjoining the Divinity Schl but 2 centuries its senior!
Yes, the maths link! But that’s a different story…
Fabulous photos from yesterday’s #IWD lecture for Cambridge Uni #HPS at the @whipplemuseum.bsky.social …
I love the maths on the blackboards behind me, but who knew I gesticulate so much when I talk!!
Thrilled to be speaking in this beautiful space, #ConvocationHouse, for the #OxfordLitFest 2pm, 24 March, about #AgentZo, a story of female heroism & achievement.
But you could get a ticket just to enjoy this room… part of @bodleian.ox.ac.uk, adjoining the Divinity Schl but 2 centuries its senior!
Privileged to give the inaugural Cambridge Uni Dept of History & Philosophical Science #InternationalWomensDay talk at @whipplemuseum.bsky.social on #MelittaVonStauffenberg & #HannaReitsch, the only women to serve the Third Reich as test pilots… who ended their lives on opposite sides of history.
3 women (from so many) who have inspired me, to mark #InternationalWomensDay
1) #KrystynaSkarbek, 1908-52. Aka Christine Granville, Britain’s 1st female special agent of WW2 & among most high achieving. (see #TheSpyWhoLoved)
3) #ElżbietaZawacka aka #Zo, 1909-2009. Among first women to serve in WW2, only woman to parachute from GB to occupied Poland, only female member of Poland’s elite special forces. (See #AgentZo)
2) #MelittaVonStauffenberg, 1903-45, German aeronautical engineer involved in the 20 July plot to assassinate Hitler. (See #TheWomenWhoFlewForHitler)
3 women (from so many) who have inspired me, to mark #InternationalWomensDay
1) #KrystynaSkarbek, 1908-52. Aka Christine Granville, Britain’s 1st female special agent of WW2 & among most high achieving. (see #TheSpyWhoLoved)
#internationalwomensday2026. More recommendations. Tip of the cap to @claremulley.bsky.social Dr Helen Fry @moffski.bsky.social Katja Hoyer. I haven’t read Katja’s book yet however I am sure it will be first rate. 3
Thank you, always glad to be on the company here!
Eglantyne Jebb, subject of my first book, grew up there. Not Zo, who I spoke to your brewery about…
He is a laugh!
Happy birthday Colin Bell, DFC, 105 today!
Joining the RAF at just 19, Colin served as a #WW2 Mosquito bomber pilot on 50 raids over Nazi Germany. 1 in 3 were killed on these missions that helped force Nazi Germany’s surrender...
🧵½
No question of it.
As it’s #WorldBookDay2026, Colin’s story is told in #BloodyDangerous.
I’ll be raising a glass to you tonight @colinstuartb , & I’m quite sure you’ll be raising one too!
🥂🥂🥃🥃💐💐
Happy birthday Colin Bell, DFC, 105 today!
Joining the RAF at just 19, Colin served as a #WW2 Mosquito bomber pilot on 50 raids over Nazi Germany. 1 in 3 were killed on these missions that helped force Nazi Germany’s surrender...
🧵½
Try London’s Polish Institute & Sikorski Museum, and Polish Underground Movement Studies Trust, the National Archives at Kew, & in the memoirs held by POSK in Hammersmith?
Absolutely, she has a blue plaque there
Wonderful to mark #InternationalWomensDay (this Sunday) with an event at the #PolishEmbassy , interviewed by @OlgaTopol, curator of Eastern European Lit at the @britishlibrary.bsky.social :)
Thanks to all who came & the Embassy for hosting!
Introducing the inspirational #EglantyneJebb who perhaps saved more lives than anyone in history!
Eglantyne was the passionate compassionate subject of my first book #TheWomanWhoSavedTheChildren.
Great to tell her story for BBC R4’s #HistoriesHeroes yesterday:
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Introducing the inspirational #EglantyneJebb who perhaps saved more lives than anyone in history!
Eglantyne was the passionate compassionate subject of my first book #TheWomanWhoSavedTheChildren.
Great to tell her story for BBC R4’s #HistoriesHeroes yesterday:
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
#histbookchat
Glad you enjoyed. Eglantyne was my first inspiration!
Oh! I wonder what the programme was? BBC?
Thank you, & lovely to see the hardback covers there! Might you be interested in #AgentZo after a short break & strong coffee? 📖📕☕️