Posts Tagged ‘events’
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Bookings
0March 21, 2016 by Lydia Syson
Please contact lydiasyson@gmail.com to request more information about school visits or to make a booking for any kind of event. You’ll find more about school visits here and can download full details: Lydia Syson’s school visits
Upcoming events.
Recent Events:
9 Sept 2016: Ewell Library Summer Reading Challenge volunteers celebration
1 October 2016 Battle of Cable Street 80th Anniversary commemoration at Rich Mix with Michael Rosen and Philosophy Footballl
10 October 2016 Author visit to Sydenham High School
22 October 2016: YA Shot festival, Uxbridge: A History of Violence with Tanya Landman, Catherine Johnson, Katherine Woodfine
9 November 2016: Peckham Literary Festival – YA evening with Lucy Inglis
14-15 November 2016 :CWISL Shoutwest! Festival
22 November 2016: Haberdashers Monmouth School for Girls Lit Fest
5 December 2016: Brixton Bookjaml
Category Events | Tags: author visit, book an author, Booking, events, literacy, Lydia Syson, school author visits, school visit
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Talking about the Spanish Civil War
0September 15, 2012 by Lydia Syson
Paul Preston must know more about the history of twentieth-century Spain than anyone else alive. A captivating speaker, who charms with his truculence, he’s a hero to thousands, including me.
The first time I heard him in public I squeezed into the last seat of a dark and crowded basement at the Instituto Cervantes just as he began to introduce his fellow speaker, Julián Casanova. The event was called ‘Remembering the Spanish Civil War’. I gulped, keep reading
Category Blog | Tags: Blenheim Palace, Churchill, events, fiction, Franco, Memory, Paul Preston, Richard Baxell
