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Sylvia Hikins
red blue
Theatre review / 22 September 2025
Reds and Blues
22 September 2025

SYLVIA HIKINS relishes a comedy that dives deep into Liverpool’s divided loyalties

ADMIRABLE ADAPTABILITY: A Tuareg family The Tuareg in Menaka, in the south of northern Mali. Tuaregs controlled the central Sahara and its trade / Pic: Emilia Tjernstrom/flickr/CC
Book Review / 24 August 2025
Lines in the sand
24 August 2025

SYLVIA HIKINS recommends a sweeping survey of the world's biggest desert and the people who live there

biennale
Liverpool Biennale 2025 / 17 June 2025
Built on a bedrock of labour and slavery
17 June 2025

SYLVIA HIKINS casts an eye across the contemporary art brought to a city founded on colonialism and empire

speedo
Theatre review / 6 June 2025
Need for Speedo
6 June 2025

SYLVIA HIKINS is bowled over by a wonderful show that both entertains and educates

Iman Aoun and Edward Muallem in Oranges and Stones
Best of 2024 / 3 December 2024
Best of 2024: Sylvia Hikins’ choices
3 December 2024
A manifesto for change, feminism in the digital age and a wordless play by Palestinians
Girls Don't Play Guitars: Val, Sylvia, Pam and Mary.
Theatre review / 7 October 2024
The original girl band
7 October 2024
SYLVIA HIKINS relishes a brilliant untold Merseybeat story of how four talented women dared to break the mould
PRESSING AGENDAS: A Punch cartoon from 1867 mocks John Stuar
Books / 3 May 2024
A woman for all seasons
3 May 2024
SYLVIA HIKINS is enthralled by a biography of an extraordinary, 19th-century mould-breaker who influenced policies regarding the status of women in society
REVOLUTION VS LET IT BE: Tom Connor as Paul McCartney and Ma
Theatre review / 22 March 2024
Gimme some truth
22 March 2024
SYLVIA HIKINS applauds a musical show that emphasises the growing difference in songwriting between Lennon and McCartney 
NATIONALISM AND RACISM: (Left) Distress of the Fatherland (N
Book Review / 5 March 2024
God’s other Englishman
5 March 2024
SYLVIA HIKINS revisits the visionary world of Blake in a handsome book that sets him alongside his European contemporaries
Bede’s tomb in Durham cathedral
Books Review / 25 October 2023
The father of English history
25 October 2023
SYLVIA HIKINS recommends a hugely readable account of the life and thinking of the greatest scholar of the Anglo Saxon period
BOISTEROUS: (L to R) Mark Womack, Andrew Schofield, Lauren O
Theatre Review / 24 September 2023
Symbolic victims of state brutality
24 September 2023
SYLVIA HIKINS wholeheartedly recommends the stage production of Alan Bleasdale’s warm, witty TV classic
Members of the International Brigade in the British cookhous
Books / 4 August 2023
Many words for solidarity
4 August 2023
SYLVIA HIKINS is moved by a comprehensive anthology of the literature that emerged from the International Brigades