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 …
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Category 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
A sudden blow
0September 3, 2012 by Lydia Syson
A few weeks ago I lost my memory. I’m still circling round what happened, telling and retelling myself the story, …
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Category News | Tags: amnesia, history, Memory, Stories
Blenheim Palace Festival: 14th September 2012
0August 30, 2012 by Lydia Syson
Panel discussion on The Spanish Civil War: Fact and Fiction with Paul Preston and Richard Baxell at Blenheim Palace Literary …
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The Torch of History
0August 30, 2012 by Lydia Syson
For most of my life I’ve been as likely to pole-vault out of the garden as to sit down to …
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Category News | Tags: A WORLD BETWEEN US, Cable Street, Lydia Syson, Olympics, Spanish Civil War
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 …
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Category 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
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 …
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Category Reviews & more | Tags: Autobiography, Chief Medical Officer, IBMT, International Brigades, Len Crome, Leonard Crome, Memorial Lecture
WBW Competition winning entry: These Talking Walls by James Barber (Sidcot School)
1June 6, 2012 by Lydia Syson
Chapter 1 – Arno Svoboda I stepped from the bus onto the campus grounds. The building was magnificent, a …
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Category News | Tags: Creative Writing, James Barber, Sidcot School, story, These Talking Walls, Velvet Revolution, World Book Day Writing competition, World Book Week
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 …
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Category Reviews & more | Tags: 1871, Commune map, Fetridge, Liberty's Fire, Map of Paris 1871, The Rise and Fall of the Paris Commune
