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Jenny Grant @silenceinpolish.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

A superb day at We Have Ways Fest, sharing my research with a lovely crowd and signing the Maczek memoirs.

Jenny Grant @silenceinpolish.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

3 days until I'm speaking at @WeHaveWaysPod Fest 2026 - or roughly the time it took SS Alderpool to transport the evacuated Polish soldiers from La Rochelle to Plymouth in June 1940. 'Guns, Goats and Motorcycles' - 4pm on Friday in The Arsenal.

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Jenny Grant @silenceinpolish.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

91,121 words of the PhD thesis submitted for the internal reader. And now to have a holiday.

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Jenny Grant @silenceinpolish.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Delighted to be speaking at this year's We Have Ways Festival about the arrival of the exiled Allies in the UK in 1940: 'Goats, Guns and Motorcycles' - Friday 11th September. @WeHaveWaysPod wehavewaysfest.co.uk/whwf6-speake...

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SPEAKERS 2026

We Have Ways Fest is the UK’s number one, Second World War festival. Tanks, talks and tankards … experts, enthusiasts, authors, historians. Blackpit Farm, 8th – 10th September. WN…

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Jenny Grant @silenceinpolish.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

🛩 🇵🇱 POLISH AIR FORCE DAY - 11th July A whole day of talks and tours at the Battle of Britain Bunker Uxbridge - home of 303

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Jenny Grant @silenceinpolish.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Valuable use of AI by my Upper Sixth students

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Jenny Grant @silenceinpolish.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Online, Saturday 11:30 BST I'll be discussing the Imperial War Grave Commission's policy of honouring the Polish war dead, during and after #WW2 Honouring the Polish Dead: The Imperial War Graves Commission Date: 25 apr • 11:30 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/honouring-...

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Honouring the Polish Dead: The Imperial War Graves Commission

Honouring the Polish Dead: The Imperial War Graves Commission and the Politics of Post-War Commemoration.

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Jenny Grant @silenceinpolish.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

Caernarfon Castle Most famous for being the site of Polish Commando training in the Second World War

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Chris Baraniuk @chrisbaraniuk.com · 22/12/2025

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...

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Church organ tuning records mirror our warming climate

The records appear to reflect climate change, as well as the increased heating of churches in winter

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Jenny Grant @silenceinpolish.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

Wishing you and your families a very merry Christmas 🎄 Wesołych Świąt ❤️

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Jenny Grant @silenceinpolish.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

Polish soldiers in Iraq improvise a Christmas tree, 1942 (NAC)

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Jenny Grant @silenceinpolish.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

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.

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News Of The War Pod @newsofthewar.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

🇵🇱🚨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

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News Of The War Pod @newsofthewar.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

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!

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Jenny Grant @silenceinpolish.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

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.

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Jenny Grant @silenceinpolish.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

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

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POLISH ARMY CHOIR The Road To The Isles (Restored)

YouTube video by Graff Archive

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Jenny Grant @silenceinpolish.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

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.

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Jenny Grant @silenceinpolish.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

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...

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Ognisko Polskie - Polish Hearth

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Jenny Grant @silenceinpolish.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

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

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Jenny Grant @silenceinpolish.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

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

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Jenny Grant @silenceinpolish.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

An 18-page document of absolute dynamite - and I'm just overcome by autumnal snooziness. Possibly becoming a cat.

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Jenny Grant @silenceinpolish.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

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

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Jenny Grant @silenceinpolish.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

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 🙏

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three planes are flying in a row in a cloudy sky

ALT: three planes are flying in a row in a cloudy sky

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Jenny Grant @silenceinpolish.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

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.

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Jenny Grant @silenceinpolish.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

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.

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Jenny Grant @silenceinpolish.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

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

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Jenny Grant @silenceinpolish.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

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...

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The Price of Victory: Poland after the Second World War - Chelsea Heritage Quarter

Join our panel of experts as they discuss the Polish contribution to the Allied war effort in the Second World War and beyond.

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Jenny Grant @silenceinpolish.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

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. 🙏

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Jenny Grant @silenceinpolish.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

Russia leading in the 'mass grave' category, presumably

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Clare Mulley @claremulley.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

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…

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Bad Squiddo Games (Annie) @badsquiddogames.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

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!

Three well cool ladies (clare Mulley, jenny grant and Annie norman)

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Clare Mulley @claremulley.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

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!

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Jim Wald @citizenwald.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

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... 4/10

map: The formation of the Falaise pocket, from 8–17 August 1944
Canadian forces marked by brown arrows, move southeast from Caen in Ioerations Totalize and Tractable, split the German 7th Army to the West and 5th Panzer Army to the east
British 2nd Army is farther west, US First and Third Armies west and south

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map: German counter-attacks against Canadian-Polish positions on 20 August 1944

Nazi infantry and Panzer forces (including SS) move east to attack Polish forces on high ground, as 9th and 2nd SS Panzers attack from north and east

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Maczek (middle-aged man, seated at right) talks to two other seated comrades
Other soldiers stand at rear (in front of camouflage netting) and front

Maczek and many of the other hold small glasses of a dark liquid that appears to be wine

The men are sitting/standing on a Nazi flag with swastika. On top of it is a low table with a bottle along with more small filled glasses

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Jenny Grant @silenceinpolish.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

I simply would not name a spaceship 'Maginot'

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Jenny Grant @silenceinpolish.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

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:

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sianushka.bsky.social @sianushka.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

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.

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Jenny Grant @silenceinpolish.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

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

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Jenny Grant @silenceinpolish.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

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

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