Hello all! You can get 25% off the already surprisingly reasonable price of WE HAVE COME TO BE DESTROYED if you pre-order at @waterstones.bsky.social between 14th and 17th October using the discount code OCTOBER25! Pls share. Link here: www.waterstones.com/book/we-have... #skystorians #histchild 🗃

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...

In 1987, cruise missiles were banned in a crucial agreement between the US and the Soviet Union, prefiguring the end of the Cold War. (6/6)

Today I’m thinking about a group of protesters who broke into an air base and sprayed paint on a plane (1/?)

Thanks Google. An accurate depiction of my career.

Excited to hear Dr Sheena Kalayil talk about her new novel, THE OTHERS, set in East Germany in 1989, at Waterstones Newcastle on 27th June. If any NE-based writing, reading or history friends want to join me, do let me know! @newwritingnorth.bsky.social @nclanews.bsky.social #skystorians #booksky

Urgh

Arriving at @sheffielduni.bsky.social for the Oral History and the History of Childhood conference! #histchild #oralhistory #skystorians 🗃

Another #typicalhistorian, promoting history

I LOVED the #womeninrevolt exhibition at Edinburgh Art Galleries on feminist protest in Britain 1970-1990 - still on for a couple more weeks #queerhistory #histgender #skystorians 🗃

My current novel-in-progress: NEW MOTHERS, a speculative thriller in which group of teenage girls living in an isolated Wiltshire hamlet in the late 1970s discover that their fathers have murdered their mothers and replaced them with robots. Think THE STEPFORD WIVES meets NEVER LET ME GO #amwriting

Thrilled to see my novel-in-progress on this list! Congrats to the other longlistees 🌟 #amwriting #amwritingsff #writingcommunity

So many new followers, hooray! Thanks to those who made starter packs. I'm in Denver so will do a mass followback when I get home. Denver is also aboard the bluesky train 🌞

BOOK GIVEAWAY TIME! Naomi Alderman's THE FUTURE was one of my top ten books of 2023. Now, @4thestatebooks have kindly given me TWO copies to give away. To enter, like & share this post & follow me either here or on X (TisdallLaura) or Instagram (drlauratisdall)! UK only. #booksky #bookgiveaway

So excited to have won a New Writing North Northern Writers' Award for my novel-in-progress and to have been to the fabulous ceremony last night! It was great to meet my fellow awardees and the other guests and I'm so looking forward to the year ahead. #NorthernWritersAwards

Exciting news! My history of Cold War Britain through the eyes of children & young people is now under contract with @yalebooks.bsky.social, coming spring 2026 🗃

Birthday book haul 💙📚

English schools take note: when the *actual* Demon Headmaster is more lenient with uniform policy than you are, it may be time to reconsider