Posts Tagged ‘The History Girls’
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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 …
keep readingCategory 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
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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 …
keep readingCategory News | Tags: anarchists in Fitzrovia, international school, Liberty's Fire, Louise Michel, The History Girls
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Bees not fleas
0February 24, 2015 by Lydia Syson
Fellow YA author Helen Grant and I struck up conversation on Twitter at the weekend after reading a couple of …
keep readingCategory News | Tags: children's writing, Courtauld, Dodie Smith, Helen Grant, Philippa Stockley, RLF, The Guardian, The History Girls, The Starlight Barking, YouGov poll
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Summer news – updated
0August 1, 2014 by Lydia Syson
This is a bits-and-pieces, catch-up kind of a post, mostly to express my gratitude to lots of different people who’ve …
keep readingCategory News | Tags: Anne Clark, Catherine Clarke, City University, CWISL, Felicity Bryan, Flubit competition, Im Dunklen Licht der Tage, National Literacy Trust, Picture Book Agent, Teaching and Mentoring, The History Girls, Two Turtle Doves, Where's Wally fun run
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Competition: The History Girls
0November 30, 2013 by Lydia Syson
This week there’s a chance to win a copy of That Burning Summer thanks to the The History Girls – if you already …
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