‘News’ Category
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New Blood for the Republic: the Spanish Civil War, eighty years on
0September 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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The Red Virgin and the Vision of Utopia: book review
0May 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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April news
0April 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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Judith Kerr
0March 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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US Cover Reveal
2February 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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February News: National Libraries Day and Ebook Special Offers
0February 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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Happy ‘Nu’ Year
4January 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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Gingerbread Pigs
0December 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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‘Resist the attempt to construct an argument’
2October 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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In which I go ‘Down The Rabbit Hole’…
0October 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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