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Clare awarded the ANFB Chevalier d’Argent
Clare was deeply honoured to be decorated with the ANFB Chevalier d’Argent in Paris, for advancing the memory of those who served, notably the female combatants. This Croix de Chevalier was once given to veterans of the resistance, making it all the more poignant.
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19 September 2026
New military art-medal for SOE’s female agents
Inspired by Clare’s talk on the women of SOE at the We Have Ways WW2 history festival, Dundee art student Laura Beveridge has designed & cast in bronze a new art-medal to pay tribute to the women who served.
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16 September 2026
Acting career (don’t quit the day job!)
In a brilliant acting debut, Clare plays Deborah Meaden with fellow dragons Stalin (Charlie Higson), Churchill (Al Murray), Roosevelt (James Holland), being pitched the Bouncing Bomb by Barnes-Wallace (Ben Willbond) at the We Have Ways fest 2026
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12 September 2026
AGENT ZO long listed for the Pilecki Book Award
The award, run in partnership with the Auschwitz Memorial and Museum, has nominated AGENT ZO in the Reportage History category.
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7 September 2026
150th anniversary of Eglantyne Jebb’s birth
Clare has paid tribute to Eglantyne Jebb, founder of Save the Children & pioneer of Children’s human rights, in the Church Times, Engelsberg Ideas and on BBC Shropshire.
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25 August 2026
Agent Zo flies to Poland in a Hawker Hurricane
Over 80 years after parachuting into enemy-occupied Poland, Agent Zo flew to Poland in a Hurricane, organised by Polish Heritage Flight to pay tribute to the aircrew of both nations.
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11 August 2026
Violette Szabó memorial picnic
Clare was delighted to be the guest speaker, alongside Violette’s daughter Tania, at the annual memorial in Hereford, where Violette Szabó spent many happy summers as a child.
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15 July 2026
Clare has had a busy first half of the year!
While working on her new book, Clare has been recording TV, radio & pods, & has spoken at many events including at Bletchley Park, Battle of Britain Bunker (photo), Polish Embassy, Cambridge University, Oxford Lit Fest, 3 prisons, libraries, societies & schools. Do get in touch to book Clare.
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13 July 2026
Clare with Angela Rayner at the Women’s Prize
Avid reader Angela Rayner supported this year’s Women’s Prize in London, where the winners were Virginia Evans for The Correspondent (fiction), and Lyse Doucet for The Finest Hotel in Kabul (nonfiction).
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11 June 2026
New memorial plaque at Newmarket
An iconic Lysander landed at former RAF Newmarket today, to mark the installation of a new memorial plaque and info board about the racecourse’s historic role in WW2
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9 June 2026