Posts Tagged ‘Cable Street’

  1. Lou Kenton, 1908-2012

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    September 18, 2012 by Lydia Syson

    The oldest surviving British volunteer for the International Brigades has died aged 104.  Both ordinary and extraordinary, Lou Kenton was …
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  2. The Torch of History

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    August 30, 2012 by Lydia Syson

    For most of my life I’ve been as likely to pole-vault out of the garden as to sit down to …
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  3. It’s All Relative & Drawn to Spain

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    August 4, 2012 by Lydia Syson

    Here’s an article about some of the romantics, rebels and wordsmiths in my family which I wrote for the Jewish Socialist magazine’s …
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“A mesmerising portrait of a family unravelling” THE TIMES (Best historical fiction in 2018)

“Powerful, intense and beautiful” HISTORICAL NOVEL REVIEW

“This tense, evocative, richly-imagined novel conjures the voices of a strange time and place, and makes them universal” EMMA DARWIN

“Syson brings history alive” THE OBSERVER

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