‘News’ Category
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This Burning Summer
3July 23, 2013 by Lydia Syson
I remember last July as dreary and overcast. When I went walking on Romney Marsh, trying to soak up the …
keep readingCategory News | Tags: 1940, Battle of Britain, Britain at War, Britain since 1930, GSCE, H E Bates, Home Front resources, KS3 History, Love for Lydia, Modern World Source Enquiry, propaganda, The Home Front, The Ripening World, War and the transformation of British Society c1931-51
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Branford Boase Award Party
0July 19, 2013 by Lydia Syson
A week on and I’m still getting over the glorious celebration of books, reading, writing and above all editing for …
keep readingCategory News | Tags: Annabel Pitcher, Branford Boase, Dave Shelton, David Fickling, Henrietta Branford
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‘Deberemos resistir! We must resist!’
0June 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 …
keep readingCategory News | Tags: AABI, ALBA, Comment is Free, David Lomon, David Mathieson, Early Day Motion 204, historical memory, IBMT, International Brigade Monument, Madrid, Memorial, Paul Mason, petition, The Volunteer
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Cover Glory
0June 23, 2013 by Lydia Syson
I did wonder whether second novel covers might be like second babies.
Category News | Tags: cover reveal, hot key ring, second novels, That Burning Cover
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A small shout about…
0June 21, 2013 by Lydia Syson
This time last week I was contemplating the hidden qualities of a household sponge with a small group of Tigers …
keep readingCategory News | Tags: Creative Writing, CWISL, Festival, Lambeth, Lewisham, London South Bank University, Southsouth, Southwark, Wandsworth
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Unbelievable?
4June 6, 2013 by Lydia Syson
‘Isn’t that rather implausible?’ I’ll take a bet that if you write vampire novels or fantasy or dystopia for young people, …
keep readingCategory News | Tags: credibility, Esmond Romilly, Felicia Browne, International Brigades, Jessica Mitford, John Sommerfield, Molly Murphy, Paris, People's Olympiad, real volunteers, Running away, Steve Fullarton, Wogan Phillips
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This is London
1May 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 …
keep readingCategory News | Tags: Artists' Open House, Dulwich Festival, exploring London, Loraine Rutt, lost rivers, Sasek, Silt Road, This is London, Tower Bridge
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Come and see the blood in the streets
0April 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 …
keep readingCategory News | Tags: Anti-fascism, blood on the streets, fundraising documentary, Ian Hart, International Brigade Memorial Trust, Ivor Montagu, Jim Jump, Ken Loach, Land and Freedom, London Socialist Film Co-op, Medical Aid for Spain, Propaganda films, Spanish Civil War films, The Defence of Madrid, Trabadajores, Trabajadores
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Please tell Mr Gove what you think…
0April 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 …
keep readingCategory News | Tags: Camden New Journal, curriculum for cohesion, Gove, history education, history not propaganda, Martin Spafford, National Curriculum, Richard Evans, Schools HIstory Project
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Left out
4March 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 …
keep readingCategory News | Tags: curriculum, Edmund de Waal, Fujioka, history, Japanese Society for History Textbook Reform, Matsuoka, The Exiles Return, world war 2
