Posts Tagged ‘Spanish Civil War’

  1. New Blood for the Republic: the Spanish Civil War, eighty years on

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    September 6, 2016 by Lydia Syson

    80th anniversary commemorations and conferences have been taking place up and down this country as well as Spain to mark …
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  2. 31st March 2016: Children and Socialism series, Marx Memorial Library, London

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    March 8, 2016 by Lydia Syson

    New Ways to Tell Old Stories: putting the political into historical fiction for today’s young readers Lydia Syson and Meirian …
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  3. Happy ‘Nu’ Year

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    January 6, 2016 by Lydia Syson

    My New Year’s resolution should possibly be to work out how to exert better control over my headline images on …
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  4. Conscience and Conflict

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    March 6, 2015 by Lydia Syson

    A ground-breaking exhibition exploring British artists’ many and varied responses to the Spanish Civil War transfers tomorrow from Pallant House …
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  5. Find out more about the background to A WORLD BETWEEN US

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    March 1, 2015 by Lydia Syson

    There have been about 15,000 books written in English about the Spanish Civil War – twice that many in Spanish, …
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  6. School visits: bonus time

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    September 18, 2014 by Lydia Syson

    There’s something particularly satisfying about reading creative work that’s been produced by students after a school visit.  Last summer I …
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  7. Len Crome Memorial Lecture 2014: Taking Sides

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    March 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 …
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  8. Journey to Hill 481

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    October 1, 2013 by Lydia Syson

    Last week’s experience of visiting some of the settings for key events in A World Between Us was extremely powerful. It’s …
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  9. Dying for dreams

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    January 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 …
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  10. Spanish Civil War songs

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    September 27, 2012 by Lydia Syson

    You can hear different versions of nearly all the songs in A World Between Us on YouTube.  Many of these videos include …
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