Dr Kate Vigurs FRhistS
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Author of 'Mission France' Yale University Press. Historian of SOE, Resistance & the Holocaust. Western front, Berlin & Krakow guide. Director History's Maid.
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Mission France is out, published by Yale University Press and described as 'a meticulously researched and highly readable historical narrative & a fitting epitaph to the agents courage and humanity'
@YaleBooks
#SOE
#WW2
#secretwar
#thisgirlcan
#twitterstorians
#HERstory
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These copies of children's pictures in block 27 at
@AuschwitzMuseum
are so simple and so very moving. Hardly any of them survived.
#holocaust
#remember
#neverforget
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If I were to do an online talk next Sunday 24 September on the first two
#SOE
women to parachute into
#France
would anyone come along? It would be the 80th anniversary too.
#missionfrance
#ww2
#author
#onlinetalk
#operationwhitebeam
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Friends of twitter. I was involved in horrible RTA last night. My horsebox had a blow out, flipped and veered across 4 lanes on the M1. 2 horses & 2 people sore, bruised and shocked but amazingly ok. Feeling very lucky.
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Sometime in early February 1945,
#SOE
F section agent Cicely Lefort was taken to Ravensbrück gas chamber, ordered to strip she & 150 women were told they would be treated for lice. Instead they were murdered. She 45 years old.
#missionfrance
#HERStory
#rememberthem
#history
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Ah. The museum of Danish resistance is everything I hoped it would be. Where else can I guide an
#Aircraft
in for a drop of
#SOE
equipment?! So good! Even an
#sphone
#ww2
#dz
#parachute
#flameandcitroen
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For me, this was the most beautiful and poignant part of today. The Queens pony Emma with her majesty's headscarf on the saddle was such a touching gesture and resonates with so many of us who also love horses.
#horses
#queensfuneral
#fellpony
#WindsorCastle
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Today was a dream come true kind of day as I climbed into the back of a Lysander at the Shuttleworth collection. Happy doesn't really describe it.
#intheirfootsteps
#lysander
#SOE
#ww2
#secretwar
#specialdutiessquadron
#missionfrance
#makeyourownluck
#shuttleworthcollection
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A year ago today I did this - and it is safe to say that life hasn't been the same since!
@almurray
@James1940
@WeHaveWaysPod
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An amazing first day at
@WeHaveWaysPod
fest! Great to meet so many of you. Copies of Mission France are on my stall by the HQ tent! See you all tomorrow, can't wait!
#festival
#history
#SOE
#ww2
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Yesterday I visited Brookwood military cemetery to pay honour to the women of
#SOE
#FANY
with no known graves. I laid a wreath and spent time reflecting on their fates.
#missionfrance
#HERstory
#rememberthem
#Ww2
#secretww2learningnetwork
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At Chalke valley history festival last year I was told an
#SOE
lady was looking for me. She came to my talk & asked me to stay in touch. So today I interviewed her, Joyce Wilding, SOE FANY. Amazing
@ChalkeFestival
@fany_prvc
@WeHaveWaysPod
@YaleBooks
#HERstory
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Are you home schooling? Why not liven up your history by having a video call with a character from history? From the Romans to the cold war I can offer in character, costumed talks (with objects). Please share & drop me a PM if I can help you (& by doing so you will help me too)!
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Today I met Joyce Wilding. A wartime member of FANY SOE who worked in wireless & as a driver. Inwas honoured that she came to my talk and posed for a photo with me.
#SOE
#ww2
#HERstory
#history
#author
#missionfrance
@CVHISTORYFEST
@YaleBooks
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Oh twitter. I am feeling the love tonight (think there is a song in that). Just beaming from the best few days. Loved every second and you all are just great people! Thank you!
@WeHaveWaysPod
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Today I am working at Audley end and I rode my horse to the Polish SOE memorial. She kindly moved her ears so you can get a good view of the dedication to the men and women of Station 43.
#SOE
#ww2
#secretwar
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I didn't get many pics
@WeHaveWaysPod
fest. But here I am with the two main men!
@almurray
and
@James1940
. Best thing I ever did was go on the podcast- opened so many doors. (Aren't they both tall or am I vertically challenged)?!
#ww2
#SOE
#missionfrance
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Some happy news for a Tuesday, I have just been elected as a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in recognition of my contribution to historical scholarship! I am so proud!
@RoyalHistSoc
@yalepress
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Today is (as far as we know it) the 83rd anniversary of the Special Operations Executive. Studying it has provided me with numerous friendships, opportunities, journey's and heroes. May the spirit of Resistance live on.
#missionfrance
#SOE
#ww2
#resistance
#history
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On this day 22nd Feb 1943 members of the white rose Sophie Scholl, Hans Scholl and Christoph Probst are executed. Long live freedom
#resistance
#heroes
#longlivefreedom
#Whiterose
#Munich
#remember
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77 years ago tonight, at 21.15, 5th June 1944 hundreds of agents, resistance fighters and Maquis all across France heard the ‘action’ messages broadcast by the BBC on the wireless. The Allied invasion would take place within hours
#missionfrance
#DDay77
#ww2
@YaleBooks
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If you are happy and you know it stand in front of a
#lysander
in your
#1940s
kit.
#livinghistory
#historian
#makeyourownluck
@ShuttleworthTru
@Manonthefence
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This morning I received a call informing me that the last
#SOE
F female section agent Phyllis "Pippa" Latour has passed away aged 102. Dropped to support
#Dday
her
#mission
was short but successful. A
#sad
day indee
#heroine
#HERstory
#legacy
#allgonebutnotforgotten
#secretagent
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I am at the fabulous
#RAFclub
, where, amongst other things
#SOE
agent Sonia Butt married fellow agent Captain Guy D'Artois. This meant they could not serve together but both survived the war and moved to Canada. Her story is told in
#missionfrance
#ww2
#history
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A landmark day, I have just signed a contract for my second book! I have 366 days to get the research & manuscript done so wish me luck!
#SOE
#WW2
#HERstory
#history
#author
#notagain
#books
#reading
#writing
#proud
@YaleBooks
@CCampbell_Agent
@GreyhoundLitAg
@WeHaveWaysPod
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12 years a Dr. Hardest thing I ever did but so rewarding!
#PhD
#study
#thesis
#isthereadrinthehouse
#doctorate
@UniversityLeeds
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Today I laid flowers for Francis Suttill also known as Prosper, and William Grover-Williams. Both
#SOE
agents incarcerated and murdered at
#Sachsenhausen
concentration camp.
#remember
#NeverForget
#bravery
#heroes
@robert_lyman
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Yesterday marked the 100th birthday of the last surviving female F Section agent Phyllis Latour. Many happy returns to a remarkable woman. I was honoured to contribute some small bits of research for her speech.
#SOE
#WW2
#missionfrance
#secretwar
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I have had an amazing day exploring several of the
#SOE
training schools on the West Coast of Scotland. I talk about this house all the time and it was amazing to see it (and be allowed in it)
#secretwar
#secretscotland
#ww2
#missionfrance
#history
#HERstory
#commandocountry
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Huge thanks to the wonderful
@nico_lala
and all at
@NAM_London
for making my book launch yesterday so special. For those who missed it an online version will be ready soon.
#missionfrance
#ww2
#SOE
#secretwar
#spyhistory
#HERstory
#twitterstorians
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My euphoria has turned to dismay. This is it. The
#SOE
section. Pretty gutted that the fantastic old display in Secret War has become this. Why?!
@I_W_M
#ww2
#agents
#secretagents
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The documentary I have been working on is released today.
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I was delighted that Noreen Riols,
#SOE
staff came to my talk
@UKDefenceFrance
in Paris last week. Her role was to train agents to pass messages covertly & how to follow someone, and to act as a decoy in scenarios created to test agents.
#ww2
#missionfrance
#history
#HERstory
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Wow. Two years already since 'Mission France' came out. How my world has changed since then! Thanks to all who have made it so!
@yalepress
@WeHaveWaysPod
#history
#HERstory
#SOE
#ww2
#author
#thisgirlcan
#missionfrance
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"Mission France" is my debut book, it is about the 39 women of SOE F Section. Described as "a tale of triumph & tragedy, of romance but also ruin... a fitting epitaph to their courage & humanity.” Signed copies available this weekend
#HistoryWritersDay
#missionfrance
#books
#ww2
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I also visited
@CWGC
Air memorial at Runnymeade to see the names of
#SOE
#WAAF
who have no know graves. These women were 'nacht und nebel' prisoners and were it not for Vera Atkins we would never know their fates.
#missionfrance
#HERstory
#ww2
#rememberthem
#secetwar
@YaleBooks
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I have just hit 'send' on my manuscript for
#MissionEurope
. What an epic 17 months & 118, 817 words that has been! With trips to
#Denmark
,
#Poland
, the
#Netherlands
,
#France
,
#Hungary
&
#London
. I have researched some amazing
#women
& cannot wait to share their stories.
#ww2
#SOE
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Mission France has just climbed 20,000 places on the amazon best seller list, keep buying it you wonderful people!
@WeHaveWaysPod
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An utterly amazing weekend at
#Beaulieu
. I spoke at house in the woods, stayed in a
#SOE
dormitory house & visited several stately 'omes of England. Now lunching with an agents grand daughter and dear friend.
#makeyourownluck
#livingthedream
#HERstory
#history
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Another fab review for D-Day the unheard tapes. With articulate historians filling in the background, this becomes an all-purpose immersion that, in the fog of war, never loses sight of either the vast geopolitical overview or minute psychological realities.
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What an utterly amazing feeling. I am so very happy!
#missionfrance
#SOE
#WW2
#secretwar
#specialoperationsexexutive
@YaleBooks
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Am absolutely delighted to announce that I have been signed by
@GreyhoundLitAg
to represent the me going forwards. Big thank you to
@CCampbell_Agent
And
@James1940
#missionfrance
#books
#author
#writing
#speaking
#publicspeaker
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Cheers! And thanks to all involved who have made this happen!
@yalebooks
@militaryhistori
#missionfrance
#missionaccomplished
#SOE
#WW2
#bubbly
#twitterstorians
#debutauthor
#thisgirlcan
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What a weekend! Seeing all the people who usually live in my phone in real life! Amazing talks, laughter & a camaraderie it is hard to find these days. Thanks one & all.
@almurray
@James1940
@WeHaveWaysPod
@robert_lyman
@militaryhistori
@SpitfireFilly
@stubertphoto
@benwillbond
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Spent this morning in and around Gordon Square at the Noor Inayat Khan memorial.
#rememberthem
#armisticeday
#RemembranceDay2021
#SOE
#secretagent
#ww2
#noorinayatkhan
#missionfrance
#HERstory
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#OTD
80 years ago 21-year-old Jeanne Bohec codename Rateau was infiltrated into France for de Gaulle's RF section. Described a 'little person' of 'diminutive stature' she became an explosives expert and saboteur.
#missioneurope
#heroine
#ww2
#SOE
#HERstory
#kickassgirl
#IWD2024
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Close to where I live is the Czech parachutist memorial which pays tribute to those involved in Operation Anthropoid and the assassination of Heydrich.
#lidiceshalllive
#Lidice
#czechfreearmy
#ww2
#SOE
#leamingtonspa
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Hi all. I am aware how the four women I tweeted about yesterday died. I have spent more time than most studying this in minute detail, which is in my book. A tweet cannot do the justice a chapter can...it was simply my way of commemorating.
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Going in. This is what rainy Christmas days were made for. One of my favourite memories of this year is James and Al's, war movie goggle box at We have ways fest.
#warfilm
#legend
#whereaglesdare
#broadswordcallingdannyboy
@WeHaveWaysPod
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I was very lucky to spend a short time in the company of Nancy Wake, 'The White Mouse' at a reunion of SOE personnel at
@RAFtangmere
. Her extraordinary story is of course recounted in
#MissionFrance
#SOE
#WW2
#secretwar
#specialoperationsexecutive
#HERstory
@YaleBooks
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It is an exciting and nerve-wracking day as I step into a new phase of my career. I will spend the next week lecturing on board the Ocean Albatross in Scotland.
#lecturer
#shetlandbus
#onwards
#seafaring
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Ah boxing day. The day when every year, since I was about 14 I have been belittleld and mocked by my sibling. Today no exception. Show me the love twitter...feeling, well, fed up of it tbh.
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Another warhorse memorial from another trip. This is in Romsey, Hampshire where there was an army remount depot.
#warhorse
#greatwar
#ww1
#historyshorse
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Today I visited the Violette Szabo museum and dropped off a copy of
#Missionfrance
for the new reading room.
#SOE
#ww2
#secretwar
#spyhistory
#HERstory
@YaleBooks
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On 6th July 1944
#SOE
F section agents Andrée Borrel, Diana Rowden, Vera Leigh & Sonia Olschanezky were taken to Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp. Executed by lethal injection, their bodies were burned in the camp crematorium.
#heroines
#history
#HERstory
#neverforget
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Some exciting news. I have been accepted as an honorary research fellow in the school of Politics and International Studies at Univeristy of Warwick!
#University
#study
#research
#affiliation
#proud
#author
#researcher
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I am delighted to have helped out on this obituary for the wonderful Phyllis Latour. The last SOE F section agent.
#SOE
#WW2
#heroine
#HERstory
#history
#missionfrance
#resistance
#legacy
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A few books signed at
#bletchleypark
yesterday. Mission France is currently in low supply due to high demand!
#Author
#sellingout
#SOE
#ww2
#book
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It has been an honour & privilege to tell the story of agents who I have met. Here I am pictured with Yvonne Burney nee Baseden, a wireless operator who organised one of the biggest daylight drops of the war.
#missionfrance
#SOE
#WW2
#HERstory
#secretwar
@YaleBooks
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Today I am remembering SOE agent Diana Rowden. Courier to the Acrobat circuit and executed at Natzweiler Struthof on 6th July 1944.
#rememberthem
#RemembranceSunday
#SOE
#LestWeForget
#secretwar
#missionfrance
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Did I mention I have a book coming out? Mission France. 11/05/2021. Preorder from your local book store now!
#secretwar
#missionfrance
#book
#history
#worldwartwo
#newauthor
@YaleBooks
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This one...
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Anyone watching 'Transatlantic' on Netflix, about early escape lines in 1940? Am quite enjoying it.
#ww2
#resistance
#escape
#netflix
#research
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Me and
#missionfrance
are on our way to
#Paris
on a top secret mission! So excited!
#ww2
#france
#SOE
#history
#HERstory
#operationwhitebeam
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Well. The cat is out of the bag,
@WW2girl1944
and I are sharing a podium for a brand new talk. I will also have my SOE display and be performing!
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Today is the 80th anniversary of the first wireless message to be set from France to England in
#WW2
, it's sender Georges Bégué had left London 4 days earlier. He gave a contact name and said he had ‘Landed OK'.
#missionfrance
#SOE
#secretwar
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Popped into
#Harrogate
today. Thrilled to see several.copies of
#missionfrance
. Signed them and watched as the lovely shop assistant out them on display for me
@WaterstonesHarr
. I do love seeing my book in the wild.
#writer
#historian
#proud
#SOE
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All set up. See you tomorrow gang!
@WeHaveWaysPod
#ww2
#SOE
#history
#stuff
#livinghistory
#HERstory
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81 years ago Sophie Magdalena Scholl, Hans Scholl &
Christoph Probst, members of the White Rose resistance movement in Munich were executed.
#sophiescholl
#hansscholl
#christophprobst
#weisserose
#wei
ßerose
#weisserosegemeinschaft
#whiterose
#resistance
#remember
#hero
#heroine
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Two weeks today Mission France is released, I am beyond excited - who else is?
#missionfrance
#SOE
#HERstory
#WW2
#secretwar
#specialoperationsexecutive
#debutauthor
@YaleBooks
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An hour to kill in London...hunting copies of
#missionfrance
in the wild. Spotted at waterstones and
@Foyles
- always been an ambition to have a book in here. Celebrating with tea and scones.
@YaleBooks
#madeitatlast
#author
#writing
#nonfiction
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I travelled to various places in France whilst researching
#SOE
including the Loire valley where I visited the Valençay memorial to all the men and women of F Section who did not come home
#SOE
#rememberthem
#WW2
#missonfrance
#secretwar
#HERstory
#debutauthor
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While enjoying some time off in Tynemouth, I spotted this plaque. What a fantastic story- twenty jewish girls were housed here who came over on kindertransport - the locals seem immensely proud too!
#kindertransport
#holocaust
#ww2
#blueplaque
#localhistory
#Heritage
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When you are a historian and it is your birthday weekend. Afternoon tea at St Ermins Hotel home of espionage.
#SOE
#seteuropeablaze
#sconesandhistory
#afternoontea
#history
#whereithappened
#stermins
#champagne
#itsfriyay
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Looking back over the last few incredible days.
@WeHaveWaysPod
fest was just brilliant. Such a pleasure to meet so many people who usually live in my twitter feed! I particularly enjoyed my
@WW2TV
live with Woody about D-day.
#SOE
#ww2
#nohat
#missionfrance
#talks
@YaleBooks
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It is
#WorldBookDay2023
. Here is one that I wrote!
@Books2Cover
@YaleBooks
@WeHaveWaysPod
#books
#writing
#reading
#ww2
#history
#HERstory
#nonfiction
#SOE
#missionfrance
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This time yesterday Mission France was 42,000 on the seller list. This morning this has happened!
@YaleBooks
@WeHaveWaysPod
#SOE
#HERstory
#books
#reading
#WW2
#debutauthor
#secretwar
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It is official - I was best selling author at CVHF!
@historical_kate
I was delighted to hear this evening on
@WeHaveWaysPod
that you were the bestselling author
@CVHISTORYFEST
despite my badgering you for a signature in my £2-50 copy from the British Heart Foundation shop in Dorchester!
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Eleven years as Dr Kate. Still proud as punch!
@UniversityLeeds
#schoolofhistory
#SOE
#ww2
#HERstory
#history
#PhD
#Doctorate
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A year ago today I received my autbor copies of
#missionfrance
. Cannot believe it is already a year - but what a year it has been! Talks, TV & radio. So much coming up too. Am extremely proud & grateful to those who made it happen.
@YaleBooks
#SOE
#ww2
#HERstory
#writer
#author
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Brilliant to work with
@robert_lyman
again talking all things
#SOE
, Prosper and 1943.
#ww2
#france
#missionfrance
#books
#talks
#toodamnedhot
@WeHaveWaysPod
#WHWF
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Thrilled to say I will be at
@CVHISTORYFEST
this summer both speaking about
#missionfrance
and performing as
@historysmaid
. So excited to be part of such an amazing event.
#livinghistory
#HERstory
#SOE
#ww2
#womeninwar
#Festival
@James1940
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Do have a listen to my podcast for BBC history extra on Noor Inayat Khan.
On the podcast |
@historical_kate
shares the daring story of Noor Inayat Khan, a Second World War secret agent who made history when she was sent behind enemy lines. Listen here:
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81 years ago today Special Operations Executive was formed, its remit was to 'set Europe Ablaze'.
#SOE
#secretwar
#secretagents
#history
#spyhistory
#specialoperationsexecutive
#ww2
#secondworldwar
#missionfrance
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Hanging out with
@James1940
citroen looking a la resistance. Vive la France!
@WeHaveWaysPod
#SOE
#ww2
#livinghistory
#history
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This ...
This is a good way to be an ally.
Podcast: Tonight we're gonna hear the work of a female scholar
@historical_kate
.
Some dude: You should talk to this dude.
Podcast: No....we're gonna hear the work of this female scholar.
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Yesterday got to hang out with fellow authors and friends
@claremulley
and
@DrHelenFry
at
@WeHaveWaysPod
#WHWF
. Great line up of speakers and fabulous crowds here this weekend!
#authors
#books
#reading
#IC
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