2nd December 2025 18:30-20:00 at the Clapham Library – Join historians and academics to mark the closure of the Warsaw Calling Exhibition, which tells the story of this heroic and tragic event.

The Warsaw Uprising was the greatest and bloodiest military operation undertaken by any resistance movement during the Second World War. For two months in the summer of 1944, superior Nazi forces were held in check by the Polish underground army fighters, many just teenagers. The Soviet Red Army halted its advance outside the city limits. Poland’s British allies provided virtually no support. The Rising cost the lives of estimated 200,000 inhabitants of Warsaw. 85% of the city was destroyed by the Nazis.

To mark the closure of the Warsaw Calling Exhibition, which tells the story of this dramatic, heroic, and tragic event, Clapham Library will be hosting a seminar with King’s College London featuring writers and historians of Polish history.

Panel Discussion, organised by the Sir Michael Howard Centre for the Study of Warfare, King’s College London and the Polish Underground Movement Study Trust

• Photography as Resistance – Janina Struk, Independent Documentary Photographer and Author
• The Warsaw Uprising and the Postwar Polish Community in the UK – Josef Butler, King’s College London
• Short-Term Memory Loss? Assessing the Warsaw Uprising in the First Years after the War – Prof. James Bjork, King’s College London
• Abstracting Images: Making, Memory and Meaning, Dr. Milena Michalski, King’s College London

Chair: Prof. James Gow, King’s College London

The Warsaw Calling Exhibition is organised by the Polish Underground Movement Study Trust (PUMST) historic archive based in Ealing London. www.studium.org.uk

More info and tickets here

FREE: Dec 2 from 6:30pm to 8:00pm

Location: Clapham Library, Mary Seacole Centre, 91 Clapham High Street London SW4 7DB