Posts Tagged ‘events’
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Bookings & Events
0May 24, 2018 by Lydia Syson
Please contact lydiasyson@gmail.com to request more information or to make a booking for any kind of event. You’ll find more about school visits here and can also download full details: Lydia Syson’s school visits
Upcoming events will be found on the sidebar.
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
