Len Crome Memorial Conference 12th March 2016: Women and the Spanish Civil War
0December 22, 2015 by Lydia Syson
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Gingerbread Pigs
0December 13, 2015 by Lydia Syson
My kitchen is heady with the scent of cloves and ginger and muscavado and cinnamon. The biscuity part of our …
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Category News | Tags: Armadillo, best gingerbread recipe, Christmas gingerbread, Gingerbread fair, Gingerbread recipe, Liberty's Fire, old-fashioned gingerbread, Paris Commune, Paris en Images, Place du Trône, Prue Leith, Roger-Viollet archive, The History Girls
‘Resist the attempt to construct an argument’
2October 19, 2015 by Lydia Syson
This slogan flashed by while I sat enthralled by William Kentridge’s video installation Notes Towards a Model Opera at the …
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Category News | Tags: Art, Carnegie, Cultural Revolution, Dada Masilo, Liberty's Fire, librarians, Marian Goodman, More Sweetly Play the Dance, Notes Towards a Model Opera, opera, Paris Commune, Revolution, William Kentridge
In which I go ‘Down The Rabbit Hole’…
0October 2, 2015 by Lydia Syson
…with fellow History Girl, Catherine Johnson. A little over a year ago, the world of children’s literature cheered the launch …
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Category News | Tags: Children's books, Down the Rabbit Hole, Katherine Woodfine, Lady Caraboo, Liberty's Fire, Louise Lamont, Melissa Cox, radio, Resonance FM, Timbutoo
Who are you like?
0September 18, 2015 by Lydia Syson
UKYAX is all about breaking down barriers between readers and writers, and finding new ways to spread the word about …
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Category News | Tags: Chelle Toy, children's book quiz, favourite characters in historical fiction, Liberty's Fire, literary quiz, Lydia Syson quiz, Tales of Yesterday, UKMGX, UKYAX, UKYAX blog tour, YA quiz
UKYA Extravaganza
0September 6, 2015 by Lydia Syson
I’m not sure if it sounds more like a circus or a speed-dating event for authors and readers, but I …
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Category News | Tags: A WORLD BETWEEN US, Emma Pass, Kerry Drewery, Liberty's Fire, Nottingham, That Burning Summer, UKYA Extravaganza, Waterstones
In the footsteps of Communards
0July 6, 2015 by Lydia Syson
What happened to the revolutionaries who managed to escape Paris after the bloody fall of the Commune? Over three thousand …
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Category News | Tags: anarchists in Fitzrovia, international school, Liberty's Fire, Louise Michel, The History Girls
Coming up…
0June 23, 2015 by Lydia Syson
26 June 2015: Carnegie shadowing event at Graveney School 27 June 2015 (For info): Anarchism & Education: the history of Louise Michel …
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‘The Red Virgin’
0June 23, 2015 by Lydia Syson
There is a character in Liberty’s Fire who is not named, but can be easily identified as Louise Michel, the best known …
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Category News | Tags: English Anarchists, Fitzrovia, Fitzrovia Festival, French in exile, Henry Nevinson, international school, Liberty's Fire, Louise Michel, Margaret McMillan, N.F.Dryhust, Paris Commune
Meet the archivist…at the Marx Memorial Library
2June 6, 2015 by Lydia Syson
This interview first appeared on The History Girls blogsite on June 6th 2015: In April I wrote about the Conscience and Conflict exhibition of …
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Category News | Tags: archivist, book burning, Clerkenwell, Daily Worker, Eleanor Marx, International Brigade Memorial Trust, International Working Men's Association, Marx Memorial Library, Meirian Jump, socialist history, William Morris
