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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).

Clare Mulley

Today, 80 years after flying secret wartime missions, an iconic Westland Lysander landed at Newmarket… (sound on, to hear its purring engine on landing & takeoff!)

Great to meet avid reader #AngelRaynerMP at the #WomensPrize last night

‘Have faith. They’re here, they’re fighting,’ Pierre Hentic described his emotion at seeing a SDS Lysander arrive in German-occupied France in support of the resistance… 🧵

#historythreads

82 years ago #OTD, 10 June 1944, SOE agent #VioletteSzabó was captured during her 2nd mission. Along with fellow SOE agents Lilian Rolfe, Denise Bloch & Cicely Lefort, she was later executed at Ravensbrück. Szabó was posthumously awarded the George Cross, shown here with her daughter Tania 🧵½

Fantastic day at the unveiling of a memorial blue plaque, & excellent information board, at Newmarket Racecourse, thanks to the #SecretWW2LearningNetwork.

Before SOE sent agents to Nazi German-occupied Europe from #RAFTempsford, they used RAF Newmarket. It was a privilege to be there today, to remember & mark this history!

This year, I’m honoured to be the speaker at the Violette Szabo GC museum in Wormelow, Herefordshire. Join us from 1pm on 12 July 2026 at this year’s picnic at: Cartref, Tump Lane, Wormelow, Herefordshire, HR2 8HN. There will be plenty of parking, refreshments & entertainment…

Writing is a solitary act, but… celebrating great writing isn’t :) Brilliant eve at the #WomensPrize with founder #KateMosse & many book-lovers :) Huge congrats to #LyseDoucet: #thefinesthotelinkabul , & Virginia Evans: #thecorrespondent . Thank you all 📖📗📙📕📚

Clare Mulley