‘News’ Category

  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. The Red Virgin and the Vision of Utopia: book review

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    May 8, 2016 by Lydia Syson

    Regular readers of this blog will be familiar with Louise Michel, teacher, poet and revolutionary heroine of the 1871 Paris …
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  3. April news

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    April 11, 2016 by Lydia Syson

    A quick update… Over at The History Girls, April is Shakespeare month, though not exclusively.  My contribution has been this exploration …
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  4. Judith Kerr

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    March 8, 2016 by Lydia Syson

    Barely had I written this appreciation of Judith Kerr for The History Girls than I discovered that When Hitler Stole Pink …
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  5. US Cover Reveal

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    February 26, 2016 by Lydia Syson

    A complete change of style for the new cover of That Burning Summer which is coming out with Sky Pony Press in …
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  6. February News: National Libraries Day and Ebook Special Offers

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    February 3, 2016 by Lydia Syson

    If you value your local library, this Saturday is the day to show your appreciation. Find out what’s going on …
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  7. 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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  8. Gingerbread Pigs

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    December 13, 2015 by Lydia Syson

    My kitchen is heady with the scent of cloves and ginger and muscavado and cinnamon.  The biscuity part of our …
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  9. ‘Resist the attempt to construct an argument’

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    October 19, 2015 by Lydia Syson

    This slogan flashed by while I sat enthralled by William Kentridge’s video installation Notes Towards a Model Opera at the …
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  10. In which I go ‘Down The Rabbit Hole’…

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    October 2, 2015 by Lydia Syson

    …with fellow History Girl, Catherine Johnson. A little over a year ago, the world of children’s literature cheered the launch …
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