Homage to Catalonia: the debate
3March 4, 2013 by Lydia Syson
“You’ve written a book about the Spanish Civil War? Oh yes, Orwell, right?” “Mmm. Yes and no.” I’ve had a …
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Category News | Tags: Barcelona, Christopher Hall, Franco, Homage to Catalonia, IBMT, ILP, Jim Jump, Len Crome, Mary Vincent, May Days, Orwell, Orwell Society, Paul Preston, POUM, quiet front, Richard Baxell, Spanish Civil War historiography, Stafford Cottman, Tom Buchanan
Questioning the Triumph of Abolition
1February 27, 2013 by Lydia Syson
A few years ago I did some research for my children’s South London primary school about a local hero called …
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Category News | Tags: abolition, Catherine Hall, Dog Kennel Hill, Freedom Sculpture, Lettsom, Slavery, UCL
23 April 2013 World Book Night Party
0February 17, 2013 by Lydia Syson
MC Sandra Agard hosts this World Book Night Party at the recently revamped Lewisham Library. I’ll be joining Blake Morrison, …
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Category Bookings | Tags: Blake Morrison, Lewisham Library, Nii Ayikwei Parkes, Sandra Agard, Sarah Mussi, World Book Night, you should read
9th March 2013 Bookshop Event, Crouch End
0January 31, 2013 by Lydia Syson
Readings, Q&A and signing at Pickled Pepper Books from 2 – 3 p.m.
Category Bookings | Tags: Crouch End, London events, Pickled Pepper Books
5th March 2013 YA Historical Fiction Day
0January 30, 2013 by Lydia Syson
10.00-15.00 I’ll be joining leading writers of historical fiction for teens Sally Gardner, Mary Hooper and William Osborne at Foyles, …
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Category Bookings | Tags: Foyles, Historical YA, Mary Hooper, Sally Gardner, schools event, William Osborne
2nd March 2013 George Orwell’s ‘Homage to Catalonia’ 75 years on
0January 29, 2013 by Lydia Syson
I’m looking forward to the 2013 Len Crome Memorial Lecture, which this year will be held not at the Imperial War …
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Category Bookings | Tags: Christopher Hall, conference, George Orwell, Homage to Catalonia, IBMT, lecture, Len Crome, Paul Preston, Richard Baxell, Tom Buchanan
Dying for dreams
5January 24, 2013 by Lydia Syson
Numbers on labels, pinned to the soil. A handful of molars in a plastic bag. The riverine meanders of sutures …
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Category News | Tags: Clemente Bernad, Desvelados, Dying for Dreams, Kept Awake, Memory, Spanish Civil War
26 February 2013: School Visit
0January 20, 2013 by Lydia Syson
I’ll be meeting Key Stage 3 students at The Elmgreen School in south London, which has recently hosted the Anne …
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Category Bookings | Tags: Anne Frank, Elmgreen School, KS3, Rise of European Fascism
19 January 2013 YLG Unconference
0January 17, 2013 by Lydia Syson
The Youth Libraries Group is having its first ever Unconference. Bolingbroke Academy will host a day of book talking, problem …
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RIP David Lomon, 1918-2012
2December 22, 2012 by Lydia Syson
When Ellathebookworm from the Guardian Teen Book Club asked me this week what I would have found hardest if I’d …
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Category News | Tags: David Lomon, Guardian Teen Book Club, International Brigades Memorial Trust, last British International Brigader
