Posts Tagged ‘Spanish Civil War’
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New Blood for the Republic: the Spanish Civil War, eighty years on
0September 6, 2016 by Lydia Syson
80th anniversary commemorations and conferences have been taking place up and down this country as well as Spain to mark …
keep readingCategory News | Tags: 80th anniversary, A WORLD BETWEEN US, archives, David Lomon, digital humanities, Franco, iBook, multimedia, Spanish Civil War
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31st March 2016: Children and Socialism series, Marx Memorial Library, London
0March 8, 2016 by Lydia Syson
New Ways to Tell Old Stories: putting the political into historical fiction for today’s young readers Lydia Syson and Meirian …
keep readingCategory Bookings | Tags: Children and Socialism, Historical YA, Lydia Syson, Marx Memorial Library, Pacifism, Paris Commune, political, Spanish Civil War, YA
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Happy ‘Nu’ Year
4January 6, 2016 by Lydia Syson
My New Year’s resolution should possibly be to work out how to exert better control over my headline images on …
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Conscience and Conflict
0March 6, 2015 by Lydia Syson
A ground-breaking exhibition exploring British artists’ many and varied responses to the Spanish Civil War transfers tomorrow from Pallant House …
keep readingCategory News | Tags: AIA, Artists Take Sides, Conscience and Conflict, Henry Moore, Simon Martin, Spanish Civil War, Surrealists
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Find out more about the background to A WORLD BETWEEN US
10March 1, 2015 by Lydia Syson
There have been about 15,000 books written in English about the Spanish Civil War – twice that many in Spanish, …
keep readingCategory Reviews & more | Tags: A WORLD BETWEEN US, Bibliography, books about Spanish Civil War, films about Spanish Civil War, novels, Reading, Spanish Civil War
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School visits: bonus time
0September 18, 2014 by Lydia Syson
There’s something particularly satisfying about reading creative work that’s been produced by students after a school visit. Last summer I …
keep readingCategory News | Tags: Anna Perera, author visits, Creative Writing, CWISL, David Massey, Ian Cobain, Spanish Civil War, STREAM 2014, Streatham and Clapham High School, writing festival
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Len Crome Memorial Lecture 2014: Taking Sides
1March 2, 2014 by Lydia Syson
The Spanish Civil War ‘gripped the imagination of a generation’, said Valentine Cunningham this weekend at Taking Sides: Artists and …
keep readingCategory News | Tags: A WORLD BETWEEN US, Andre Friedman, Art, artists, Authors Take Sides, Carmen Herrero, culture, Gerda Pohorylle, Gerda Taro, IBMT, John Cornford, Len Crome, Richard Baxell, Robert Capa, Spanish Civil War, The Mexican Suitcase, Valentine Cunningham
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Journey to Hill 481
2October 1, 2013 by Lydia Syson
Last week’s experience of visiting some of the settings for key events in A World Between Us was extremely powerful. It’s …
keep readingCategory News | Tags: 115 days, Battle of the Ebro, British Battalion, Cambrils, Clarence Kailin, Corbera d'Ebre, Danilo Lekic, Gandesa, Gerard Martí, Hill 481, James Jump, John Cookson, John Longstaff, Lewis Clive, Montserrat Flores, sense of place, Spanish Civil War, UKYA, Unlikely Warriors
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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 …
keep readingCategory News | Tags: Clemente Bernad, Desvelados, Dying for Dreams, Kept Awake, Memory, Spanish Civil War
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Spanish Civil War songs
8September 27, 2012 by Lydia Syson
You can hear different versions of nearly all the songs in A World Between Us on YouTube. Many of these videos include …
keep readingCategory Reviews & more | Tags: International, music, protest songs, singing, Spanish Civil War
