Posts Tagged ‘Memory’
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Dying for dreams
6January 24, 2013 by Lydia Syson
Numbers on labels, pinned to the soil. A handful of molars in a plastic bag. The riverine meanders of sutures running across a cranium, joining frontal to parietal bones, temporal to occipital. They are transected by a fracture, leading from a bullet hole. keep reading
Category News | Tags: Clemente Bernad, Desvelados, Dying for Dreams, Kept Awake, Memory, Spanish Civil War
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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 News | Tags: Blenheim Palace, Churchill, events, fiction, Franco, Memory, Paul Preston, Richard Baxell
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A sudden blow
0September 3, 2012 by Lydia Syson
A few weeks ago I lost my memory. I’m still circling round what happened, telling and retelling myself the story, and checking and double-checking with my children exactly what I did and said at the time. On holiday in France, I fell off a horse and hit my head. keep reading
Category News | Tags: amnesia, history, Memory, Stories
