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 …
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Category News | Tags: Artists' Open House, Dulwich Festival, exploring London, Loraine Rutt, lost rivers, Sasek, Silt Road, This is London, Tower Bridge
2nd-3rd September 2013: Politeness & Prurience Conference, Edinburgh
0May 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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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 …
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Category 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
Morning Star 17th March 2016
0April 11, 2013 by Lydia Syson
Category Reviews & more | Tags: historical fiction, Morning Star, Opinion
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 …
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Category News | Tags: Camden New Journal, curriculum for cohesion, Gove, history education, history not propaganda, Martin Spafford, National Curriculum, Richard Evans, Schools HIstory Project
11th July 2013 Branford Boase Award Ceremony
1April 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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Category Bookings | Tags: Branford Boase 2013
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 …
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Category News | Tags: curriculum, Edmund de Waal, Fujioka, history, Japanese Society for History Textbook Reform, Matsuoka, The Exiles Return, world war 2
27th June 2013 WeRead Prize Day
0March 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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Category Bookings | Tags: Anna Perera, Elizabeth Wein, James Holland, Sarah Crossan, Tales on Moon Lane, UCS, WeRead, Will Hill
13th-15th June Shoutabout! Festival at South Bank University
0March 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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Category Bookings | Tags: CWISL, Shoutsouth, writing festival
