This year’s Chelsea History Festival will bring the past to life through a series of talks, tours and events. The immersive programme will reveal history in all its variety and demonstrate its ongoing resonance and relevance today.
Join Clare Mulley as she recounts the remarkable tale of Britain’s first female special agent of the Second World War.
The event
Courageous and enigmatic, Christine Granville – also known as Krystyna Skarbek – was the daughter of a Polish aristocrat and ended up becoming one of Britain’s most daring and highly decorated special agents.
Join historian Claire Mulley as she unpacks Christine’s remarkable career, which took her from occupied Poland to Egypt and then behind enemy lines in France. The intelligence that she gathered made a remarkable contribution to the Allied war effort, saving the lives of her fellow officers’ mere hours before their execution on more than one occasion.
The sponsor
This event is kindly sponsored and co-curated by the Polish Cultural Institute.
Director’s choice
‘The story of Christine Granville is both inspiring and fascinating. Her courage and guile combined with both tenderness and ruthlessness makes her such an extraordinary person. I could not put Clare’s book down!’
Justin Maciejewski
Director of the National Army Museum
WHEN: 22 September 2022, 5.00pm
WHERE: National Army Museum (Foyle 1), Royal Hospital Rd, London SW3 4HT
TICKETS: £10.00 (Concessions: £8.00). To buy here.
For British Poles readers, the National Army Museum is pleased to offer a discount code “SupporterCHF22” for the tickets.
MORE INFO ABOUT THE FESTIVAL: here
