Posts Tagged ‘Louise Michel’

  1. 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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  2. In the footsteps of Communards

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    July 6, 2015 by Lydia Syson

    What happened to the revolutionaries who managed to escape Paris after the bloody fall of the Commune? Over three thousand …
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  3. ‘The Red Virgin’

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    June 23, 2015 by Lydia Syson

    There is a character in Liberty’s Fire who is not named, but can be easily identified as Louise Michel, the best known …
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  4. Citoyennes: women of the Paris Commune

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    May 5, 2015 by Lydia Syson

    The mythical figure of the pétroleuse, hideous or heroic depending on your point of view, has now almost been forgotten. For …
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  5. Coming up…

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    April 12, 2015 by Lydia Syson

    Lots of good things happening this month and next… On Tuesday 14th April the Anne Frank Trust will be at …
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  6. Find out more about about the history behind Liberty’s Fire

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    March 2, 2015 by Lydia Syson

    ‘What is the Commune, that sphinx so tantalizing to the bourgeois mind?’ (Marx:The Civil War in France) Simply put, the …
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