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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'Co Słychac' celebrating the very ugliest tank of the Second World War, 1942
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📷Gen. Stanisław Maczek & Dwight D. Eisenhower - Supreme Commander of the WW2 Allied Expeditionary Force in Europe. The image stored in the IPN Archive was taken during the fall of 1944.
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Big decision on the telly tonight! Do you watch me investigating how art had to invent the Devil from scratch because there are no descriptions of him/her in the Bible, on Sky Arts at 9pm? Or do you watch England v Latvia on ITV? Farage and Putin recommend you watch the football!
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‘It was really grim’. From an interview I did this morning - ON MY BIRTHDAY!! - for @TimesRadio on my new book Wolfpack: Inside Hitler’s U-Boat War. https://t.co/sM8bJ7ifH3 via @YouTube
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Ummm
“Hello, old friend.” Luftwaffe ace Hans Meyer is reunited with a Bf 109G, the fighter he flew during WWII. He's standing silent and still, but you can almost feel that in his mind, the past has taken flight once more. A deeply moving photograph. Military Aviation Museum, Virginia
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Stamina 🥂
A new exhibition on “Ten Centuries of Polish Russophobia” has opened in Moscow, organised by a state historical society. The display presents the Kremlin's revisionist view of history, including downplaying Soviet responsibility for the Katyn massacre
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If anyone would like to offer full funding to a PhD researcher who isn't a raging antisemite - well, hi.
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Would strongly advise starting at the top of the pile, just to proceed in a logical fashion you understand
🍂🍁With Autumn now here and our 2025 Flying Season Completed, it’s time to pick up some of the utterly brilliant books we have collected on our travels this year!📕📚📖 @SilenceInPolish
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Prices hikes during school holidays are criminal. A choice between Mallorca or sticking to a campsite in Gloucestershire for the entirety of your kid's childhood?
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Teacher here. The idea that a family should prioritise a week of school over an otherwise unaffordable holiday with their children is insane. Life is short. Screw the adverbials. Eat ice cream.
It’s 2025 and I actually have parents trying to defend pulling their child out of school for a vacation. I get a death. I get granny is turning 100 and lives out of state. But to get a cheaper vacation- nope. Can’t ever support that.
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Always struck me that there is so much academic gold just sat there for something even as popular as the Second World War - and yet we revisit the same stories.
The problem is that (almost) no one, at least in the humanities, is able to produce ‘new knowledge’ at anything like the rate expected. So scholars grasp at faddish trends and voguish theories to publish books that seem exciting in the moment but have no enduring value.
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There's absolutely no shortage of opportunities to produce 'new knowledge' in the humanities; vast swathes of medieval, early modern and modern texts remain untranscribed, unedited, untranslated. The failure to take these opportunities is partly a skills issue; (cont.)
The problem is that (almost) no one, at least in the humanities, is able to produce ‘new knowledge’ at anything like the rate expected. So scholars grasp at faddish trends and voguish theories to publish books that seem exciting in the moment but have no enduring value.
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Local chap found with a box of model aircraft and notes about the pilots who flew them. Absolute star 🌟
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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We hope you enjoyed our series of talks yesterday on the Black Soldiers of Waterloo! A big thank you to @MattTay74784525 and his team for organising this and bringing these untold soldiers' stories to life!
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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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Anyone who thinks teachers plan a school trip for a jolly is literally bathing in glue
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