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…
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!)
Fantastic day at the unveiling of a memorial blue plaque, & excellent information board, at Newmarket Racecourse, thanks to the #SecretWW2LearningNetwork.
Great to meet avid reader #AngelRaynerMP at the #WomensPrize last night
#historythreads
‘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… 🧵
