Posts Tagged ‘IBMT’

  1. 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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  2. The cave hospital, at last.

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    September 27, 2013 by Lydia Syson

    ‘This hospital is in a cave.   When Felix heard, she imagined a storybook kind of cave, where dragons lurk on …
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  3. Remembering the Battle of the Ebro, September 1938

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    September 26, 2013 by Lydia Syson

    ‘On the other side of the river, spirits are high. They’ve driven Franco’s forces from the steep hillsides outside Corbera. …
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  4. 20th-25th September 2013: Battle of Ebro 75th anniversary commemorations in Spain

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    September 5, 2013 by Lydia Syson

    The last section of A World Between Us is set during the opening stages of the Battle of the Ebro, the longest …
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  5. ‘Deberemos resistir! We must resist!’

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    June 28, 2013 by Lydia Syson

    I don’t know if you remember the moment in A World Between Us when George, walking along a street in …
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  6. Homage to Catalonia: the debate

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    March 4, 2013 by Lydia Syson

    “You’ve written a book about the Spanish Civil War?  Oh yes, Orwell, right?” “Mmm. Yes and no.” I’ve had a …
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  7. 2nd March 2013 George Orwell’s ‘Homage to Catalonia’ 75 years on

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    January 29, 2013 by Lydia Syson

    I’m looking forward to the 2013 Len Crome Memorial Lecture, which this year will be held not at the Imperial War …
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  8. Len Crome – Autobiographical Notes

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    August 2, 2012 by Lydia Syson

    Len Crome (1909-2001) was chief of the medical service of the 15th Army Corps of the Republican army during the …
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