Laura Tisdall
@TisdallLaura
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Senior lecturer @historyNCL. History of modern Brit childhood, adulthood & age. Writes & reviews fiction: loves the speculative, sapphic & uncanny. Not here.
Northumberland, England
Joined June 2013
š®š± forces are illegally seizing a humanitarian ship in international waters, to protect their illegal blockade and starvation of civilians, to continue their crimes against humanity and genocide of Gaza. Where is the global outrage, condemnations and wall-to-wall media coverage?
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Hello #twitterstorians, it would be much appreciated if you could sign & share this petition to end unnecessary redundancies at Newcastle University. Pictured: Maddy & other picket dogs showing their support!
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The deep future: The Afterlife Project by Tim Weed https://t.co/dxmnkQFMzW via @TisdallLaura
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Tim Weedās The Afterlife Project starts with a familiar kind of post-apocalyptic world. Earth has witnessed a catastrophic virus that robbed humanity of its fertility, sending the population ā¦
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Winding Up the Week #425
https://t.co/alt95YhAHG via @GaiaBird1 #parisinjuly2025 #DoorstoppersinDecember #booktwitter #amreading @wordsandpeace @TisdallLaura @bkfrgr @bk_review @kateinkew
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This week we look at books read and reviewed, discover some of the best writing about literature on the blogosphere, suggest penning a letter to the sea, announce Paris in July 2025, urge readers tā¦
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Hello #twitterstorians, it would be much appreciated if you could sign & share this petition to end unnecessary redundancies at Newcastle University. Pictured: Maddy & other picket dogs showing their support!
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14 hours later, and at least 72 people have now been killed in Gaza today. On average, Israel kills a child in Gaza every 45 minutes.
At least 23 Palestinians have been killed since dawn by relentless Israeli bombardment across the #Gaza Strip sine dawn. It's still 9:38 a.m.
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I have an idea for a new reading challenge for book bloggers & anyone else who wants to join in! See details on the blog: https://t.co/QhEm3bEEZl
#decdoorstoppers #decemberdoorstoppers #amreading #booktwitter
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I love a long novel, but the publishing industry is trending short. Partly, this is because of a new interest in novellas; but partly, itās because of new financial pressures such as the costā¦
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Read this. It's remarkable. The UN is begging - literally begging - Israel to allow it to deliver to Gaza 160,000 pallets of food aid it has ready to go. Israel will not allow that. There is only one inescapable conclusion: Israel is deliberately starving Gaza to death.
Enough. We demand rapid, safe, and unimpeded access to starving civilians in Gaza. We have a plan. We have thousands of trucks of food at the border. Let us in. Let us work. https://t.co/J55f8shIEU
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On the blog today! Three books, fiction and non-fiction, that think about what it means to be a 'girl' - and that antithesis of the girl, the 'witch' https://t.co/e9W5vZpFkD
#amreading #womensprize #twitterstorians #histsex #loveyourlibrary #BookTwitter
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Books with āgirlļæ½ļæ½ļæ½ in the title have tended to be psychological thrillers about female vulnerability ever since Gone GirlĀ (2012) spawned a wave of imitators, fromĀ The Girl on the TrainĀ tā¦
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'They found themselves made strangers in their own country' ā Enoch Powell's Rivers of Blood speech (1968) 'We risk becoming an island of strangers' ā Keir Starmer (2025)
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āØThe Shortlist 2025!āØ PRIVATE RITES by Julia Armfield THE MINISTRY OF TIME by Kaliane Bradley EXTREMOPHILE by Ian Green ANNIE BOT by Sierra Greer SERVICE MODEL by Adrian Tchaikovsky THIRTEEN WAYS TO KILL LULABELLE ROCK by Maud Woolf
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New blog post! Two books about estrangement, loss, motherhood and son/daughterhood that speak in many ways to each otherā¦ and one about plant aliens taking over the world. #booktwitter #amreading #fiction
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Another Reading Diary! Two books about estrangement, loss, motherhood and son/daughterhood that speak in many ways to each otherā¦ and one about plant aliens taking over the world. (Though tecā¦
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If anyone in Newcastle or the surrounding area is keen, I've been running a silent book group/book swap for years! You can find us as Sisters Read The World on Meetup #booktwitter
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Book clubs where no-one speaks are growing in popularity across the UK.
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#20BooksofSummer2025 is here! Time to start planning your summer TBR reading...
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When Cathy of 746 books announced last year that she would not host 20 Books of Summer this year after ten successful years, Emma of Words and Peace and I both volunteered to take it on. Summer reaā¦
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Analysis by Persuasion UK found that while 123 Labour constituencies are vulnerable to voters switching to Nigel Farageās party, the threat is dwarfed by the number of constituencies the party could lose if voters defect en masse to more progressive parties, with 250 MPs at risk.
š³ The survey suggests Labour could lose more MPs from Green and Lib Dem defectors than from those switching to Reform
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On the blog today: three books from the @WomensPrize for Fiction/@ShieldsPrize longlists/shortlists https://t.co/bSYKYZ14oH
#amreading #fiction #BookTwitter #womensprize #shieldsprize #loveyourlibrary
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Miranda July,Ā All Fours.Ā I reluctantly picked this up because it is the only title this year shortlisted for both the Womenās and Carol Shields Prizes for Fiction, and expected to dislike it ā¦
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Ukrainians get starved, but in Gaza, famine looms. The rot in journalism is so deep and so ingrained when it comes to Palestine / Israel. What is this pretend game we play with Israel? Why do journalists make such fools of themselves and their profession? For what?
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ANNOUNCING OUR 2025 SHORTLISTS. 3 Awards. 18 future classics that demonstrate the power of literature to challenge, inspire and transform our worlds! These are your #mustreads. Now and forever! #booksfullofhopeloveandjoy
#JhalakPrize25
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