‘Reviews & more’ Category
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Morning Star 17th March 2016
0April 11, 2013 by Lydia Syson
Category Reviews & more | Tags: historical fiction, Morning Star, Opinion
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Spanish Civil War songs
8September 27, 2012 by Lydia Syson
You can hear different versions of nearly all the songs in A World Between Us on YouTube. Many of these videos include …
keep readingCategory Reviews & more | Tags: International, music, protest songs, singing, Spanish Civil War
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My friendly locals…
0September 5, 2012 by Lydia Syson
…in other words, the independent booksellers I’m lucky enough to have near me. We may not have the tube in …
keep readingCategory Reviews & more | Tags: BOOKS ARE MY BAG, booksellers, bookshops, Chener, Dulwich Books, Hive, Housmans, independent, Indiebound, local, London's best independent bookshop, review, Rye Books, Tales on Moon Lane, Village Books
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My local hero: the magnificent Dr Lettsom
0August 29, 2012 by Lydia Syson
My favourite place to write is in bed, right at the top of our house in Camberwell. Looking out of …
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It’s All Relative & Drawn to Spain
0August 4, 2012 by Lydia Syson
Here’s an article about some of the romantics, rebels and wordsmiths in my family which I wrote for the Jewish Socialist magazine’s …
keep readingCategory Reviews & more | Tags: anti-fascist activists, Battle of Cable Street, British Library, Cable Street, David Low, David Rosenberg, family history, Freedom Press, Imperial War Museum, Jack Gaster, Jewish Socialist, Left Book Club, Leila Berg, Lulu Gaster, Maire Lynd, Moira Gaster, Moses Gaster, N F Dryhurst, research, Robert Lynd, Workers Circle
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Len Crome – Autobiographical Notes
0August 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 …
keep readingCategory Reviews & more | Tags: Autobiography, Chief Medical Officer, IBMT, International Brigades, Len Crome, Leonard Crome, Memorial Lecture
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Map of Paris, 1871
0March 1, 2012 by Lydia Syson
‘Harper’s Map of Paris’ can be found in the back of W.P.Fetridge’s 1871 The Rise and Fall of The Paris Commune (see …
keep readingCategory Reviews & more | Tags: 1871, Commune map, Fetridge, Liberty's Fire, Map of Paris 1871, The Rise and Fall of the Paris Commune
