Posts Tagged ‘IBMT’
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Len Crome Memorial Lecture 2014: Taking Sides
1March 2, 2014 by Lydia Syson
The Spanish Civil War ‘gripped the imagination of a generation’, said Valentine Cunningham this weekend at Taking Sides: Artists and Writers on the Spanish Civil War. To judge from the huge and variously-aged turnout at the event, not to mention the responses I’ve had from young readers of my own novel on the subject, it will continue to do so for several generations to come. keep reading
Category News | Tags: A WORLD BETWEEN US, Andre Friedman, Art, artists, Authors Take Sides, Carmen Herrero, culture, Gerda Pohorylle, Gerda Taro, IBMT, John Cornford, Len Crome, Richard Baxell, Robert Capa, Spanish Civil War, The Mexican Suitcase, Valentine Cunningham
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The cave hospital, at last.
0September 27, 2013 by Lydia Syson
‘This hospital is in a cave. When Felix heard, she imagined a storybook kind of cave, where dragons lurk on piles of gold at the end of winding tunnels. Theirs is a great horizontal gash in the rock face of a hillside, an unhappy open mouth. But its roof is solid stone. And it won’t be far from the fighting. keep reading
Category News | Tags: 35th Division, AABI, Almudena Cross, Angela Jackson, Battle of Ebro, Bisbal de Falset, Cave Hospital, Enric Masip, IBMT, Len Crome, Medicine and war, Nan Green, No Jubilem La Memoria, Patience Darton, Peter Crome, Winnifred Bates
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Remembering the Battle of the Ebro, September 1938
4September 26, 2013 by Lydia Syson
‘On the other side of the river, spirits are high. They’ve driven Franco’s forces from the steep hillsides outside Corbera. But everyone knows Fascist reinforcements will soon arrive and it’s no surprise when the crash and boom of bombardments steps up a day later. The men scan the skies, and wonder if the German and Italian planes have got the trick of breeding. Nat sees fear rising in the eyes of lads who have not fought before, and he does his best to steady their nerves.
These rocky slopes give little reassurance.‘ keep reading
Category News | Tags: 15th International Brigade, AABI, Albert Hobbs, Battle of the Ebro, British Battalion, C Day Lewis, Corbera, Edwin Greening, IBMT, Martha Gellhorn, Michael O'Riordan, Poble Vell, Sam Wild, Steve Nelson, The Volunteer
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20th-25th September 2013: Battle of Ebro 75th anniversary commemorations in Spain
0September 5, 2013 by Lydia Syson
The last section of A World Between Us is set during the opening stages of the Battle of the Ebro, the longest and bloodiest battle of the Spanish Civil War, towards the end of which the International Brigade volunteers were sent home. On Saturday 21st September I’m honoured to be speaking about the Cave Hospital at La Bisbal de Falset keep reading
Category Bookings | Tags: AABI, Cave Hospital, Corbera, Ebro, Gandesa, IBMT, La Bisbal de Falset, Len Crome
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‘Deberemos resistir! We must resist!’
0June 28, 2013 by Lydia Syson
I don’t know if you remember the moment in A World Between Us when George, walking along a street in besieged Madrid, finds himself humming along to ‘Ay Carmela’, one of the best known Republican songs of the Spanish Civil War. Well, now’s the time to join in too – if not with the song, then with the sentiment. keep reading
Category News | Tags: AABI, ALBA, Comment is Free, David Lomon, David Mathieson, Early Day Motion 204, historical memory, IBMT, International Brigade Monument, Madrid, Memorial, Paul Mason, petition, The Volunteer
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Homage to Catalonia: the debate
3March 4, 2013 by Lydia Syson
“You’ve written a book about the Spanish Civil War? Oh yes, Orwell, right?”
“Mmm. Yes and no.”
I’ve had a few conversations along these lines in recent months. It’s hard to explain George Orwell’s complicated relationship to the complicated Civil War in Spain and its complicated historiography in just a few words. As a teenager, I absolutely loved Homage to Catalonia keep reading
Category News | Tags: Barcelona, Christopher Hall, Franco, Homage to Catalonia, IBMT, ILP, Jim Jump, Len Crome, Mary Vincent, May Days, Orwell, Orwell Society, Paul Preston, POUM, quiet front, Richard Baxell, Spanish Civil War historiography, Stafford Cottman, Tom Buchanan
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2nd March 2013 George Orwell’s ‘Homage to Catalonia’ 75 years on
0January 29, 2013 by Lydia Syson
I’m looking forward to the 2013 Len Crome Memorial Lecture, which this year will be held not at the Imperial War Museum as usual, but in Manchester, with speakers such as Richard Baxell, Tom Buchanan, Christopher Hall and Paul Preston. I’m sure there will be some extremely interesting exchanges of opinion. keep reading
Category Bookings | Tags: Christopher Hall, conference, George Orwell, Homage to Catalonia, IBMT, lecture, Len Crome, Paul Preston, Richard Baxell, Tom Buchanan
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Len Crome – Autobiographical Notes
0August 2, 2012 by Lydia Syson
Len Crome (1909-2001) was chief of the medical service of the 15th Army Corps of the Republican army during the Spanish Civil War; and a lieutenant-colonel in the Royal Army Military Corps during the Second World War, when he was awarded the Military Cross for outstanding bravery. This brief autobiography is published with kind permission of his son, Peter Crome, and offers a fascinating insight into Crome’s life before and after the Spanish Civil War. keep reading
Category Reviews & more | Tags: Autobiography, Chief Medical Officer, IBMT, International Brigades, Len Crome, Leonard Crome, Memorial Lecture
