Jenny Grant
@SilenceInPolish
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Historian: The Polish Forces in Wartime Britain, Alliance and Commemoration. PhD Researcher at QMUL. Editor of General Maczek's memoirs, The Price of Victory.
Newbury, England
Joined June 2017
For 'bollocks' please read 'Polish pilots' as these belong to Squadron 303. .
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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.
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RT @CrispianWFCDO: Thank you so much @SilenceInPolish for sharing your knowledge and expertise - a fantastic presentation!.
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Absolutely privileged to be sharing my research into the long-term legacy of the Anglo-Polish alliance with @FCDOGovUK tomorrow.
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RT @PaMemorial: 🧵 1/3. 📷 of our @CWGC tour at Douglas Bank Cemetery on Saturday. So many surprises & so many people to mention:.@GermanCG….
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Slightly interesting point - a number of reports described how tanned the Polish soldiers on their arrival in 1940. In contrast to those from countries whose engagement with the Germans had been, um, more brief.
Polish soldiers in Scotland (NAC). The chessboard was most likely a donation in response to appeals for playing cards, jigsaws, musical instruments, and other ways for the soldiers to pass the time.
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Polish soldiers in Scotland (NAC). The chessboard was most likely a donation in response to appeals for playing cards, jigsaws, musical instruments, and other ways for the soldiers to pass the time.
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RT @JakubKrupa: On why Polish cuisine is not all about meat, a neon pink beetroot soup, Iga Świątek’s pasta with strawberries, and how to b….
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7pm, this Thursday 👇.
Next in our free online talks programme, historian Jenny Grant will be speaking at 7.00pm on 17 July about the 1946 London Victory Parade. Register at:
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#OTD July 1944. In a few weeks, the 1st Polish Armoured Division will arrive in Arromanches and see action in Operation Totalize. Find out about how, for many of the Poles, this would be their third experience of facing the Germans in battle.
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Just come away from an exciting discussion about a Polish event in September's Chelsea History Festival. Details soon
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My husband would like to know. - Why is Finland given its English name on the UEFA scoreboard but Switzerland is given its French name?. - And if it's based on official UEFA languages, would Germany be up there as 'Deu' or 'Ger'?.
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Poles, 1944: So, we're thinking of setting up a new unit - something like the 'Psychological Warfare Unit'. Brits: Cool, cool - targeting the enemy, yes?. Poles: . Brits: . Brits: How about the 'Psychological Warfare and Welfare Unit'? . Poles: Zgoda 👍.
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RT @BernardLewis8: Due to the generosity of the editor, I have PDF copies of this book available free of charge. Self-published to a high s….
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RT @JakubKrupa: X's Grok has gone *seriously* off in Poland, posting loads of posts abusing Polish PM Tusk ('EU puppet', 'an opportunist wh….
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Now thinking 'Representations of Totalitarianism in the Indiana Jones Franchise' would have been an easier gig.
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Supervision session - we're beginning to talk about submitting the final chapter and tidying everything up. The end is in sight!
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Would add, appreciating the difference between how a system is supposed to work and what happens in practice is also helped by working within insane management structures with positively Stalinist reporting cultures. Not, I stress, my current place of work.
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