Posts Tagged ‘Paris Commune’

  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. 31st March 2016: Children and Socialism series, Marx Memorial Library, London

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    March 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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  3. 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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  4. ‘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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  5. ‘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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  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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  7. Can I get there by Candlelight?

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    December 7, 2014 by Lydia Syson

    If you head over to The History Girls, you’ll find some seasonal thoughts on candlelight through time, how light can …
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