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Tag Archives: first world war
4th Anniversary Special: New Expanded Edition of Rebecca Wilby’s This Wretched Splendour
To celebrate our 4th anniversary at Skylight Press, and in honour of the First World War Centenary, we have reissued our very first book, This Wretched Splendour, in an all-new expanded edition. This new edition includes a one-act play, Wild With … Continue reading
Posted in British History, British Literature, Literature, New books, Recommended reads
Tagged 4th anniversary, British Drama, British History, British Literature, Centenary, Drama, English Drama, English history, English literature, First WIrkd War Centenary, first world war, great war, Literature, Michael Billington, Plays, Rebecca Wilby, Rebsie Fairholm, Siegfried Sassoon, Skylight Press, The Guardian, theatre, This Wretched Splendour, War poetry, Wilfred Owen, World War One, Wretched Splendour
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Geordie’s War by Alan Richardson
“This is the story of one man who served throughout the Great War, at the very front of the Fronts in the most brutal battles in history, and achieved that most astonishing feat of all – he survived. His name … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Richardson, Ancestry, Anglo Saxon, Anthropology, Biography, Britain, British History, British Soldier, Coal Miners, England, first world war, Flanders, Genealogy, Geordie, Geordie Safety Lamps, George Matthew Richardson, Grandfather, great war, Haddaway, Howay, Jacobite rebellion, Military, Military Medal, Miners, National Memory, Newcastle, No Man's Land, Northumberland, over the topTrench War, Royal Northumberland Fusiliers, Soldier, Somme, Sting, Time, Tommy, Toon, Trench Warfare, war, Watch, Wor Geordie, working-class Britain, World War One
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In memoriam – and then some!
If Rebecca’s play This Wretched Splendour was reckoned to have “knocked into a cocked hat” the so far established canon for first world war plays then her novel In Different Skies must go close to doing much the same demolition … Continue reading
Posted in Literature, Recommended reads
Tagged fiction, first world war, Literature, WW1
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World War I Poets
Skylight Press authors, Rebecca Wilby and Alan Richardson, write fascinating accounts of World War One era Britain. Here is an extensive article about the Great War Poets reprinted from from http://net.lib.byu.edu/english/wwi/poets/poets.html Poets of the Great War On November 11, 1985 (the … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Recommended reads
Tagged anthologies, British poetry, English poetry, first world war, great war, poetry, trench war, war, war poets, WW1
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This Wretched Splendour by Rebecca Wilby
This Wretched Splendour is a full-length stageplay in two acts, and Skylight Press is proud to offer it as our first launched title. The play is set in 1916, and follows the fortunes of a group of demoralised British soldiers … Continue reading
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Tagged British, first world war, Grace Theatre, playscript, Skylight Press, soldiers, stage, theater, theatre, This Wretched Splendour, trenches, WW1
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Through the Skylight 