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Lou Kenton, 1908-2012
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September 18, 2012 by Lydia Syson

The oldest surviving British volunteer for the International Brigades has died aged 104. Both ordinary and extraordinary, Lou Kenton was …
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Category News | Tags: ambulance driver, Cable Street, International Brigades, Lou Kenton, Spain
The Torch of History
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August 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
It’s All Relative & Drawn to Spain
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August 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

“Syson brings history alive” THE OBSERVER

“A mesmerising portrait of a family unravelling” THE TIMES (Best historical fiction in 2018)

“Powerful, intense and beautiful” HISTORICAL NOVEL REVIEW

“This tense, evocative, richly-imagined novel conjures the voices of a strange time and place, and makes them universal” EMMA DARWIN

Sources for MR PEACOCK'S POSSESSIONS

MPP: Q & A on The History Girls

MY FRIENDLY LOCALS: Independent bookshops in S E London

L'sF: Find out more about the history behind Liberty's Fire

L'sF: Meet the women of the Paris Commune

L'sF: Who were the pétroleuses?

L'sF: Communards in London: a guided walk

L'sF: Interview about writing Liberty's Fire with Rebecca Mascull

TBS: Ideas for further reading/viewing/visiting

TBS: Polish pilots in WW2

TBS: Fear of Flying

TBS: The Battle of Britain from below

TBS: Romney Marsh in poetry and fiction

TBS: Wartime spirit

TBS: Inspirational 40s films

AWBU: How to find out more about the Spanish Civil War

AWBU: Homage to Catalonia

AWBU: Spanish Civil War music

AWBU: The Army of Africa

AWBU: Black Americans in Spain

AWBU: Art & the Spanish Civil War

AWBU: The Cave Hospital

AWBU: The Battle of the Ebro 1

AWBU: The Battle of the Ebro 2

AWBU: Unburying the dead

BOOKSHOPS: Support your local!

FAMILY INFLUENCES: Rebels, romantics and wordsmiths

UKYAX QUIZ: Which character are you most like? Let me know!

21 March 2019: MR PEACOCK'S POSSESSIONS published in paperback

16 March 2019:King's Lynn Fiction Festival

19 October 2018:TAL Festival, Thame, Oxfordshire, with Anna Mazzola

2 August 2018:BBC Radio 4 Open Book 'Islands in Fiction' special

14 July 2018: Beacon Lit Festival - NEW VOICES

4 July 2018: Penzance Literary Festival

14 June 2018: Reading and Q & A at Review Bookshop, Peckham

17 May 2018: PUBLICATION DAY FOR MR PEACOCK'S POSSESSIONS

3 May 2018: Radio 2 Arts Show with Anneka Rice