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Clare Mulley
@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).
Laying a wreath to remember the #Cichociemni or #SilentUnseen, the elite Polish #SpecialForces during the #SecondWorldWar, who trained at #AudleyEnd house. The only woman among them #ElżbietaZawacka aka #Zo.
#LestWeForget
November 9, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Messing abt with Indian servicewomen historian #KiranSahota at @wehaveways.bsky.social fest.
We pay tribute to all those who served, many of whom liked messing abt too, but all put duty first.
I’m speaking abt GB female service for @skynewsrss.bsky.social tomorrow. Pic: @stubertphoto
November 8, 2025 at 11:06 AM
It was very moving to be at the launch of the #WarsawCalling exhibition at Clapham Library. Huge thanks to the #PolishUndergroundMovementStudiesTrust for organising.
Open now & free to visit.
November 5, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Aleksandra recalled the Wehrmacht officer, ‘his shiny boots as tall as me’ who set fire to her home after the #WarsawUprising
November 5, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Teresa here remembers her mother pinching her when she was small, to make her cry, helping her smuggle messages through checkpoints for the Polish resistance during #WW2
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November 5, 2025 at 7:19 PM
2) Sir John Lavery, shell-making, Edinburgh. By 1917, women were producing at least 80% of British munitions.
November 2, 2025 at 6:30 PM
November 2, 2025 at 6:30 PM
A wee bit of filming at #ImperialWarMuseum London today, before my spot at their podcast fest. I was interviewed for the #AuthorsOfHistory pod.
(Pic 2: No matter how often producers tell me not to gesticulate so widely/wildly, I’m telling big stories & my arms tend to go for it!)
November 1, 2025 at 5:24 PM
I love London!
The Thames, and the Tower, after the rain….
#London #TheThames
October 31, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Lovely eve celebrating publication of my friend @midgegillies.bsky.social new bk #AtlanticFuries, abt the women who risked everything to be the 1st to fly. The Telegraph said Midge’s previous biog of #AmyJohnson had them ‘gripped, exhilarated and moved’ ✈️✈️
October 30, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Congratulations to Frank McDonough on publication of the latest volume of his #SecondWorldWar series, this one focused on the Holocaust.
@paulmcgannon.bsky.social read very movingly from the book, at @hatchards.bsky.social this evening.
October 29, 2025 at 8:44 PM
#OnAKnifeEdge!
Wonderful to see this in @waterstones.bsky.social Piccadilly this eve!
(Lots of signed copies of #AgentZo now in-store, + 1 signed copy of #TheWomenWhoFlewForHitler!)
October 29, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Interesting to see this at London’s Tower Hill tube. I’ve been working hard to make many more of these women known… but let’s remember them all!
October 28, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Grt to be back at @wimbookfest.bsky.social this w/end, bumping into @historyalice.bsky.social& classicist Daisy Dunn before my event (#AgentZo) with the brilliant @annesebba.bsky.social (Womens Orchestra Of Auschwitz), excellently chaired by Virago’s #LennieGoodings.
Thanks to all who came!
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October 26, 2025 at 3:53 PM
I love these angelic sculptures from my fella, Ian Wolter ‘s latest collection. Now on display - & for sale - at the #GuildfordHouseGallery 🪽🪽
October 25, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Apologies if you’re trying to reach me by Facebook. Seems I’ve been thrown off - no reason given?!
Please reconnect with me there (when I’m allowed back) or on other socials!
October 24, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Marking the 80th anniv of the #PolishUndergroundMovementStudyTrust & #PolishInstituteAndSikorskiMuseum, alongside #JustinMaciejewski, dir of the #NationalArmyMuseum.
At London’s elegant Polish Club, Ognisko Polskie, in the rooms where the first mtg was held!
October 23, 2025 at 5:13 PM
What a great story for #WaterlooDay. Honourable bandsman in an 1821 painting has been identified as #ThomasJames, 1 of 9 Black soldiers to receive the #Waterloo medal, & of many to serve…
October 21, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Whey-hey!!
AGENT ZO has been shortlisted for the Polish Foreign Ministry’s biannual history book prize! I couldn’t be more delighted!
Full list: www.gov.pl/web/diplomac...
October 20, 2025 at 5:12 PM
A wonderful evening walking & talking in beautiful #Gdańsk.
This historic city is bursting with museums, bars & cafés, much like the rest of Poland. What a fabulous, & often very moving, couple of weeks I’ve had here. Dziękujemy za miłe powitanie!
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October 15, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Not a bad venue for the last talk of my Polish tour, the #2WW museum in #Gdańsk!
Other pic shows the fabulous #DrAndrzejDrzycimski. If you have read #AgentZo - it was his taped interviews with #Zo during the communist era that gave me so much material.
Home tomorrow!
October 14, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Last Polish event for #AgentkaZo at the Polish #SecondWorldWar Museum in #Gdańsk tonight!
October 14, 2025 at 7:22 AM
Delighted to have been interviewed for the current issue of #Poland’s #Sieci magazine.
Headline is: #WomenInTheSpotlight - in this case #KrystynaSkarbek aka #ChristineGranville #TheSpyWhoLoved, & #ElżbietaZawacka aka #AgentZo.
October 12, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Exquisite St Mary’s Church this morning.
With thanks to former Polish Ambassador to Britain, @arkadyrzegocki for being my guide at the church, & the 19c art collection in the #Sukiennice gallery in #RynekGłowny, #Kraków.
October 12, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Ps, the seats in the museum lecture theatre are from Soviet communist-era passenger aircraft, repurposed brilliantly here!
October 12, 2025 at 12:22 PM