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Laura Tisdall

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Senior lecturer in modern British history at Newcastle University. C20th/C21st British childhood, adulthood & age. Writes & reviews fiction: loves the speculative, sapphic and uncanny. Lesbian. 🌈 https://drlauratisdall.wordpress.com

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Laura Tisdall @lauratisdall.bsky.social · 22d

Cover reveal for my forthcoming book, WE HAVE COME TO BE DESTROYED: GROWING UP IN COLD WAR BRITAIN which tells the history of Cold War Britain (c.1956-89) through the eyes of children & young people! Out with @yalebooks.bsky.social 28 April 2026 #booksky #skystorians yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300...

Cover of my book We Have Come To Be Destroyed: Growing Up In Cold War Britain. The cover is an eerie blue-green and the words melt into an image of a group of children confronting the camera at a festival in Coventry in 1980.

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Laura Tisdall @lauratisdall.bsky.social · 1d

The call for papers for the @histchild.bsky.social 2026 conference at the University of Sheffield, 1-3 July, is now up on our website! Deadline 14 December www.histchild.org/pages/sheffi... #histchild #skystorians #histyouth

Fifth Biennial Conference | Children's History Society

University of Sheffield, 1-3 July 2026

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Voices of Motherhood @voicesofmotherhood.bsky.social · 7d

One month to go until our abstracts submission deadline!

Full details can be found on our website and please email us [[email protected]] with any questions.

Voices of Motherhood @voicesofmotherhood.bsky.social · 14d

We're pleased to share this call for papers for our upcoming conference!

📍Online via Zoom
🗓️Thursday 5 - Friday 6 February 2026
⏱️Abstract deadline Saturday 1 November 2025

See our website for full details 👇

voicesofmotherhood.wp.worc.ac.uk/index.php/news-and-resources/updates-from-the-project

The Politics of Motherhood: Maternalism, Maternity and Mothering.

Thursday 5 and Friday 6 February 2026, Online Conference.

Ruth Davidson, Anna Muggeridge, Eve Pennington and Beckie Rutherford.

Keynote address by Dr Sarah Crook, Swansea University: ‘Cradles of Discontent: Motherhood as a pathway to activism in modern Britain’.

This conference is supported by a UKRI Future Leaders’ Fellowship ‘Voices of Motherhood’ Project reference MR/Y018184/1 and the University of Worcester.

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Laura Tisdall @lauratisdall.bsky.social · 7d

Kicking off October with my first #ripxx post - two short, spooky reads, both publishing in the UK on the 9th drlauratisdall.wordpress.com/2025/10/01/r... #booksky 😱

RIP XX: Short Reads

I’m taking part in the Readers Imbibing Peril (RIP) challenge for the fifth time this year! This challenge runs from 1st September to 31st October, and involves reading books classified as mystery,…

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Laura Tisdall @lauratisdall.bsky.social · 8d

Nice! Especial congratulations to @kieranconnell.bsky.social and Eleanor Barraclough!

Wolfson History Prize @wolfsonhistory.bsky.social · 8d

We're excited to reveal the #WolfsonHistoryPrize 2025 shortlist, celebrating the finest historical non-fiction works from the past year.

Congratulations to all the shortlisted authors! 👏📚

www.wolfsonhistoryprize.org.uk/2025-wolfson...

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 8d

'University of Sussex leader Sasha Roseneil said she felt opposition to higher education was often grounded in an explicit rejection of the expansion of access that has taken place in recent decades.' 1/2

Universities victims of ‘relentless negativity campaign’

Sussex v-c says media attacks motivated by view that fewer people should obtain a degree

www.timeshighereducation.com

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Dr Surekha Davies (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social · 9d

Another witch historian joins the Blooniverse! Please welcome @drlaurakounine.bsky.social, who is writing a book on the untold history of #earlymodern WEREWOLF TRIALS!

#monsters folks will know why I'm torn between "can't wait to read this" and "I want to write this" feelz. 😍
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drlaurakounine.bsky.social @drlaurakounine.bsky.social · 9d

Well hello there - any fellow witch historians out there?

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Alessandro Rigolon @alerigolon.bsky.social · 11d

Driving didn’t “naturally” become inevitable. We designed a society that make driving inevitable in most places. We can design something different

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Laura Tisdall @lauratisdall.bsky.social · 9d

Reading Diary! PhD student woes, old-school SF and a woman who falls for a blob #booksky #sff drlauratisdall.wordpress.com/2025/09/29/r...

Reading Diary, September 12th to 23rd, 2025

Christine Murphy, Notes on Surviving The Fire. Sarah is trying to finish her PhD in religious studies at a university in southern California, considering the threefold nature of Buddhist justificat…

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Laura Tisdall @lauratisdall.bsky.social · 13d

Thanks so much, Tuva!

Laura Tisdall @lauratisdall.bsky.social · 15d

In further proof that the Booker prize is not for me & last year was a welcome aberration, exactly none of the novels from the longlist that I was interested in reading have made it to the shortlist www.ft.com/content/ee39... #bookerprize #bluesky

Booker Prize 2025: the shortlisted novels reviewed

The FT critics’ verdicts on the six contenders for this year’s fiction prize, the winner of which will be announced on November 10

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Laura Tisdall @lauratisdall.bsky.social · 15d

Useful thread:

Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 16d

I cannot tell you how grim the AI in higher ed situation is. Many of the students have completely surrendered to letting AI do their homework, badly, I might add. How do you fix this? Truly, what the hell do we do, beyond what grading can address, which isn't a solution?

Laura Tisdall @lauratisdall.bsky.social · 15d

Reviewing two very different (to put it mildly) short story collections for #ShortStorySeptember: drlauratisdall.wordpress.com/2025/09/23/s... #booksky

#ShortStorySeptember: Graham Swift & Leone Ross

Lisa of ANZ Lit Lovers is hosting Short Story September this year, and it fits beautifully with the upcoming Novellas in November, hosted by Rebecca and Cathy, and the new challenge I’m hosti…

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Lucy Delap @lucydelap.bsky.social · 19d

Come and work with our fab Americanists - a dynamic (and super nice!) group within @camhistory.bsky.social. We're hiring for a permanent position in twentieth century US history.

www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/assista...

Assistant Professor, History of the United States since 1920

The Faculty of History is seeking to appoint an Assistant Professor in post-1920 U.S. political history and/or the history of the United States in the World since 1920, beginning 1 October, 2026. The

www.cam.ac.uk

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folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 22d

"Anti-immigrant march" is such a telling phrase. An immigrant is just a person who exercises the freedom they are born with, which is recognised by all human rights legislation, and moves across imaginary lines on the ground. Being "anti-immigrant" means anti-movement, anti-freedom and anti-person.

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Laura Tisdall @lauratisdall.bsky.social · 19d

Thank you so much, and for your incredibly helpful feedback!

Laura Tisdall @lauratisdall.bsky.social · 19d

Thank you! Yale did a fantastic job.

Laura Tisdall @lauratisdall.bsky.social · 19d

No, it's really important to keep different experiences in mind, thank you. Not seeing Threads would definitely have been a plus...

Laura Tisdall @lauratisdall.bsky.social · 19d

This is so telling. It's fascinating how everyone has a Cold War story to tell (cf the replies to my original post)!

Laura Tisdall @lauratisdall.bsky.social · 19d

Thank you!!

Laura Tisdall @lauratisdall.bsky.social · 19d

Thank you! This is really interesting. As you can imagine, fear is a difficult emotion to get at historically & definitely not the only way to understand Cold War childhoods. The book, despite the title, doesn't just focus on nuclear anxieties (though Faslane and Greenham do get mentions!)

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Laura Tisdall @lauratisdall.bsky.social · 19d

Ah did you now 👀👀 thank you so much!

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Laura Tisdall @lauratisdall.bsky.social · 19d

I wasn't a child of the Cold War, but I remember having this discussion in a history lesson at school too and yes, our history teacher said that if a nuclear bomb was coming she'd drive directly to central London and get vaporised. Having read Louise Lawrence's Children of the Dust, I agreed!

Laura Tisdall @lauratisdall.bsky.social · 20d

Thank you!!

Laura Tisdall @lauratisdall.bsky.social · 20d

Good work Rob!

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Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 21d

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