Caernarfon Castle
Most famous for being the site of Polish Commando training in the Second World War
Titter
An impressive entry from Poland
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.
Thank you!
Most kind 😊
🇵🇱🚨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!
Thank you!
Just language - the Polish format is almost identical, except for the inclusion of saints' days and references to Polish anniversaries.
Much like Jadwiga Harasowska in Glasgow, Polish women writers and editors were fundamental in identifying the practical and cultural needs of Polish servicemen, as well as building bridges with the English and Scottish communities in which the Poles found themselves.
Without being all Philomena Cunk, the diary was the smartphone of the day - schedules, reminders, contacts.
Amelia overheard two Polish soldiers complaining that they couldn't use the English diaries. She approached a number of Edinburgh publishers - who willingly signed up.
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
Crocheters have been given the benefit of the doubt for too long
I think this may top Enigma
Yup - though not in the UK as a whole as Welsh pips Polish
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
The book cover in the link isn't the actual book - I'm keeping that under wraps for now. Apologies for the subterfuge - but I will reveal all, I promise.
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 🌟
