US publication
1January 31, 2017 by Lydia Syson
The new Sky Pony edition of That Burning Summer will be on the shelves of American bookshops from today, in beautiful hardback, …
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Category News | Tags: americanisation, An Awfully Big Blog Adventure, Keren David, NetGalley, new chapter, Sky Pony, That Burning Summer, US publication
Poems inspired by GUERNICA, 1937
4December 14, 2016 by Lydia Syson
A report earlier this year concluded that the number of civilians around the world killed by explosive weapons had risen …
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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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Category News | Tags: 80th anniversary, A WORLD BETWEEN US, archives, David Lomon, digital humanities, Franco, iBook, multimedia, Spanish Civil War
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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Category News | Tags: Bryan Talbot, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Dotter of Her Father's Eyes, Graphic novel, Liberty's Fire, Louise Michel, Mary M Talbot, Paris Commune, The Red Virgin and the Vision of Utopia, Utopia
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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Category News | Tags: Carnegie Library, CWISL, library closures, library protests, Marx Memorial Library, Shakespeare in Children's Fiction, Shakespeare month, Shoutsouth
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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Category News | Tags: Judith Kerr, World Book Club
31st March 2016: Children and Socialism series, Marx Memorial Library, London
0March 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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Category Bookings | Tags: Children and Socialism, Historical YA, Lydia Syson, Marx Memorial Library, Pacifism, Paris Commune, political, Spanish Civil War, YA
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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Category News | Tags: A WORLD BETWEEN US, Camberwell Library, CWISL, Durning Library, ebook offer, ebook promo, ePub, iBook, Kobo, Lambeth Libraries, Liberty's Fire, National Libraries Day, Nook, Romantic reads, Sainsbury's ebooks, Valentine's Day reads
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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Category News | Tags: A WORLD BETWEEN US, Cold War, DIY, Liberty's Fire, Luc Sante, Practical Householder, Sky Pony Press, Spanish Civil War, Steven Pinker, Style, That Burning Summer, The Other Paris, The Sense of Style
