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  1. This is London

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    May 12, 2013 by Lydia Syson

    The first time I ever saw Tower Bridge open was thanks to my Great-Aunt Bertha.  We had a huge number …
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  2. 2nd-3rd September 2013: Politeness & Prurience Conference, Edinburgh

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    May 6, 2013 by Lydia Syson

    I’ll be giving a paper called ‘Dr Graham’s ocular turn: a look at the origins of the Celestial Bed’

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  3. Come and see the blood in the streets

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    April 22, 2013 by Lydia Syson

    What prompted thousands of men and women, some only teenagers (like Nat and Felix in A World Between Us), to …
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  4. Morning Star 17th March 2016

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    April 11, 2013 by Lydia Syson

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  5. Please tell Mr Gove what you think…

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    April 10, 2013 by Lydia Syson

    We’ve all got until Monday 16th April to respond to the Draft National Curriculum, published subject by subject here, so …
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  6. 11th July 2013 Branford Boase Award Ceremony

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    April 5, 2013 by Lydia Syson

    ‘The BBA was set up to reward the most promising new writers and their editors, as well as to reward …
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  7. 6th July 2013 IBMT Annual Commemoration

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    April 4, 2013 by Lydia Syson

    Meet at 12.30 pm at the International Brigade Memorial at Jubilee Gardens, near the London Eye…

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  8. Left out

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    March 14, 2013 by Lydia Syson

    I’m developing a new obsession, fuelled this week by a number of chance media encounters.  Today I read an article …
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  9. 27th June 2013 WeRead Prize Day

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    March 5, 2013 by Lydia Syson

    I’ll be taking part in a day of readings, discussion and voting at UCS School in North London will decide …
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  10. 13th-15th June Shoutabout! Festival at South Bank University

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    March 4, 2013 by Lydia Syson

    A celebration of story-making for children and young people in South London, organised by authors and illustrators. This is a CWISL …
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MPP: Q & A on The History Girls

MY FRIENDLY LOCALS: Independent bookshops in S E London

L'sF: Find out more about the history behind Liberty's Fire

L'sF: Meet the women of the Paris Commune

L'sF: Who were the pétroleuses?

L'sF: Communards in London: a guided walk

L'sF: Interview about writing Liberty's Fire with Rebecca Mascull

TBS: Ideas for further reading/viewing/visiting

TBS: Polish pilots in WW2

TBS: Fear of Flying

TBS: The Battle of Britain from below

TBS: Romney Marsh in poetry and fiction

TBS: Wartime spirit

TBS: Inspirational 40s films

AWBU: How to find out more about the Spanish Civil War

AWBU: Homage to Catalonia

AWBU: Spanish Civil War music

AWBU: The Army of Africa

AWBU: Black Americans in Spain

AWBU: Art & the Spanish Civil War

AWBU: The Cave Hospital

AWBU: The Battle of the Ebro 1

AWBU: The Battle of the Ebro 2

AWBU: Unburying the dead

BOOKSHOPS: Support your local!

FAMILY INFLUENCES: Rebels, romantics and wordsmiths

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21 March 2019: MR PEACOCK'S POSSESSIONS published in paperback

16 March 2019:King's Lynn Fiction Festival

19 October 2018:TAL Festival, Thame, Oxfordshire, with Anna Mazzola

2 August 2018:BBC Radio 4 Open Book 'Islands in Fiction' special

14 July 2018: Beacon Lit Festival - NEW VOICES

4 July 2018: Penzance Literary Festival

14 June 2018: Reading and Q & A at Review Bookshop, Peckham

17 May 2018: PUBLICATION DAY FOR MR PEACOCK'S POSSESSIONS

3 May 2018: Radio 2 Arts Show with Anneka Rice

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