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Sophie Heywood (she/her)
@sophieheywood.bsky.social
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Associate Professor in French at Uni of Reading (UK)
Co-Director: Centre for Book Cultures & Publishing: @cbcp-unirdg.bsky.social
Children's Publishing in Cold War France: https://tinyurl.com/27x5c6kf
Children's 68: https://children68.hypotheses.org/
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Sophie Heywood (she/her) @sophieheywood.bsky.social · Feb 21
I'm very pleased to announce that my book 'Publishing for Children in Cold War France: Hachette in the age of Surveillance and Control' has been published by Bloomsbury. You can now download it as a free e-book here: www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph?do...
#childrensbooks #publishing #coldwar
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uor-research.bsky.social
The new #ChildrensBookerPrize will included translated works! Here are literature researchers @sophieheywood.bsky.social and Emma Page's 5 recommendations for excellent translated books to get kids passionate about reading!

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The Children’s Booker prize will include works of translation – here are five expert recommendations to get your kids excited
Translations will expand the reading worlds of children.
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October 31, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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The new Children's Booker Prize is brilliant for kidlit - did you know that even more brilliantly, translations are included? This is a big step towards recognising the contribution translation makes to UK children’s literature.
Read my article with Emma Page here 👇
tinyurl.com/52uva3mr
The Children’s Booker prize will include works of translation – here are five expert recommendations to get your kids excited
Translations will expand the reading worlds of children.
tinyurl.com
October 31, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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We're opening our 2025-26 Centre for Book Cultures and Publishing x Outside in World webinar series Explorations in Translation for Children on Thurs Oct 23rd, @ 5pm GMT
Discussing the project: Building a Global Youth Literature Collection 101
Register here: www.tickettailor.com/events/centr...
Select tickets – CBCP x OIW webinar: Building a Global Youth Literature Collection 101 – Teams
CBCP x OIW webinar: Building a Global Youth Literature Collection 101 – Teams, Thu 23 Oct 2025 - 'Explorations in Translation for Children' is a webinar series co-organised by The Centre for Book Cult...
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October 9, 2025 at 8:28 AM
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The Centre for Book Cultures and Publishing's autumn events schedule is now live 📚 All welcome, events are free - join us. research.reading.ac.uk/centre-for-b...
September 25, 2025 at 8:25 AM
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The Centre for Book Cultures and Publishing autumn events is now live 📚 All welcome, events are free - join us1
research.reading.ac.uk/centre-for-b...
September 24, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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CP: upcoming issue about Self-Translation in Children's and Young Adult Books, by editors Mirella Piacentini, Roberta Pederzoli and Fabio Regattin.
Submit proposals (French/English) to strenae@afreloce.fr by Dec 1, 2025.
journals.openedition.org/strenae/11837
SELF-TRANSLATION IN CHILDREN’S AND YOUNG ADULT BOOKS
Deadline for abstract submission : December 1, 2025 As a practice that has always existed and has long been acknowledged, self-translation has drawn attention at least since the second half of the ...
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September 19, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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lauratisdall.bsky.social
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.
September 16, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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cbcp-unirdg.bsky.social
CBCP will host a one-day in-person symposium on scholarly editing on 23rd Sept 2025. More information on the programme will be available soon, but in the meantime, please save the date. More info here: research.reading.ac.uk/centre-for-b...
CBCP Modernist Editing Symposium, 23 September 2025 - Centre for Book Cultures and Publishing
The Centre for Book Cultures and Publishing (CBCP) will host a one-day in-person symposium on scholarly editing on 23rd September 2025. More information on the programme will be available soon,...Read...
research.reading.ac.uk
August 6, 2025 at 8:38 AM
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unirdg-phd.bsky.social
Memorias del Exilio: Los Niños Vascos del 37 is a graphic novel by Begoña Garrido, PhD alumna. It stems from her doctoral fieldwork and draws on testimonies about the 1937 mass evacuation of Basque children. The book and related exhibition materials are currently on display in the Library foyer.
Begoña Garrido's Library display Begoña Garrido's Library display Begoña Garrido's Library display Begoña Garrido's Library display
July 15, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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rickardsisters.com
It’s cover reveal time!

Feast your eyes on THIS SLAVERY, coming out this September from @SelfMadeHero.bsky.social
A book cover. The text reads ETHEL CARNIE HOLDSWORTH’S THIS SLAVERY, a graphic novel by Scarlett & Sophie Rickard. The full page illustration shows two women standing in a steep terraced street at sunset. The blonde woman holds a violin, the dark haired woman wears a man’s coat. A young man looks at them from an upstairs window on the left, and on the right there is a perky white and brown dog. In the distance the factory chimneys smoke. It’s all very ‘mills & doom’
May 17, 2025 at 5:39 AM
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Support WNDB's newest round of bookish care packages, which focus on showing queer and trans youth that their stories are magic — and that #MagicStoriesAreForEveryone!

🏳️‍⚧️ bit.ly/MagicCarePack...
Olive green graphic titled “Support Our Newest Care Package Initiative!” A smaller subtitle below says, “Help us provide magical stories to trans and nonbinary kids in need.” At the bottom of the graphic is an illustration of two trans people embracing and holding hands, as if dancing together. On the back of one of their jackets is the trans flag. There are also sparkles, stars, and flowers surrounding them.
June 26, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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cecileboulaire.bsky.social
5e épisode de ma lecture du formidable livre de Sophie Heywood: elle nous fait entrer dans la fabrique des romans jeunesse Hachette pendant la guerre froide! #LitteratureJeunesse Fabriquer des livres pour enfants chez Hachette album50.hypotheses.org/9800
Fabriquer des livres pour enfants chez Hachette
Ce billet fait partie d’une série dans laquelle je propose un long compte rendu de l’ouvrage de Sophie Heywood, Children’s Publishing in Cold War France: Hachette in the Age of Surveillance and Contro...
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June 16, 2025 at 7:59 AM
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cecileboulaire.bsky.social
3e épisode: où Sophie Heywood nous parle de l'affaire de la disparition du journal Tarzan. L’affaire “Tarzan” album50.hypotheses.org/9784 #LitteratureJeunesse
L’affaire “Tarzan”
Ce billet fait partie d’une série dans laquelle je propose un long compte rendu de l’ouvrage de Sophie Heywood, Children’s Publishing in Cold War France: Hachette in the Age of Surveillance and Contro...
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June 11, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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cecileboulaire.bsky.social
Episode 2: Sophie Heywood nous dit tout ce qu'on voulait savoir sur la loi de 49 et les conditions dans lesquelles elle est votée. On connaissait cette loi depuis les travaux des historiens de la BD (Th. Crépin), mais ici c'est vu sous le filtre de l'édition jeunesse! album50.hypotheses.org/9779
La loi de 49 sur les publications destinées à l’enfance
Ce billet fait partie d’une série dans laquelle je propose un long compte rendu de l’ouvrage de Sophie Heywood, Children’s Publishing in Cold War France: Hachette in the Age of Surveillance and Contro...
album50.hypotheses.org
June 10, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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Congratulations @buxiduan.bsky.social!
cbcp-unirdg.bsky.social Centre for Book Cultures & Publishing (CBCP) @UniofReading @cbcp-unirdg.bsky.social · Jun 13
We are excited to announce that our CBCP Visiting Research Fellow, Buxi Duan, received an honourable mention in the Society of Textual Scholarship’s 2025 Fredson Bowers Memorial Prize for his scholarly edition of D. H. Lawrence’s short story, published last year. textualsociety.org/sts-prizes-a...
Prizes and Awards
The Society for Textual Scholarship has established several categories of prizes, awarded biennially, to recognize outstanding contributions to textual scholarship. The Greetham Prize, formerly kno…
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June 13, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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Weds 18 June, 5.15pm GMT join us for the book launch of this powerful graphic novel on mass evacuation of Basque children during the Spanish civil war, by Begoña Garrido & Oskar Gorroño, from Begoña's PhD in Spanish at the @unirdg-phd.bsky.social
To join online: tinyurl.com/mvrbsu88
June 12, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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The first review (in French!) of my book is now live... and I'm super proud as it's by Cécile Boulaire, whose pathbreaking book on Little Golden Books in France in the Cold War (see it here: pufr-editions.fr/produit/les-...) served as such an inspiration for my own work 👇
June 10, 2025 at 8:04 AM
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lauratisdall.bsky.social
We'd love to see some #skystorians at this virtual book launch & discussion of some of the very newest work in #histchild #histyouth #histsex! Do register below, and we'd really appreciate shares/RTs 🗃
jennycrane.bsky.social Jenny Crane @jennycrane.bsky.social · Apr 2
Triple book launch for myself, @drsarahlkenny.bsky.social, and @hannahcharnock.bsky.social! Thanks to @lauratisdall.bsky.social for chairing.

Please do join if you're interested in social and cultural approaches to young people's lives and leisure spaces.

12 June, 12-1, tinyurl.com/mryazrew
Book launch poster for book launch with Jenny Crane, new book Gifted Children in Britain and the World, Sarah Kenny, new book Growing up and going out, and Hannah Charnock, new book Teenage intimacies - all in discussion with Laura Tisdall. Date is 12 June, 12-1, via teams https://tinyurl.com/mryazrew
June 4, 2025 at 6:07 AM
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luciejones83.bsky.social
Are you a neurodivergent researcher who uses archives? We want to hear from you! We will be running our 1st Divergent Minds in the Archive workshop at Imperial War Museum on 4th July, 10-4.15. More info👇🏻. Sign up here lnkd.in/eUFBQg3p. Closing date for applications June 4th #skyhistorians
A word document with various logos. Text reads Neurodivergent experiences of archives - call for workshop participants Are you a (UK-based) neurodivergent researcher who has used archives in your work? Or an archive professional who would like to inform discussions on neurodivergent user access? Or a neurodivergent archive professional who can offer insights into accessibility? As part of the EDI Caucus funded project 'Divergent Minds in the Archive', we, a group of neurodivergent humanities academics, will be running a series of research and knowledge exchange workshops at archives around the UK, and online, in summer 2025. These workshops will bring together archive users and professionals to share archive experiences, identify potential barriers for neurodivergent users, and creatively 're-imagine' archival spaces through zine-making. The first workshop will be hosted by: • Imperial War Museums, Lambeth Road, London - 4 July 2025, 10am to 4:15pm. We can fund limited travel expenses for participants, including support worker travel and overnight accommodation where necessary. For detailed information about our London-based workshop, accessibility, and what participation will involve, please see this link. Deadline for application is Wednesday 4 June at 5pm. Future workshops will be held in Cardiff, Liverpool, and online - please sign up to our mailing list for more information in due course. Please feel free to get in touch with further questions at divergentmindsarchive@gmail.com. All the very best, Ria, Lucie, and Ann-Marie The project is led by Dr Ria Cheyne, Liverpool John Moores University; Dr Ann-Marie Foster, Robert Gordon University/Imperial War Museums; and Dr Lucinda Matthews-Jones, Liverpool John Moores University. Our partners are Glamorgan Archives, Gwent Archives, History UK. Imperial War Museums, Liverpool Record Office, Scottish Council on Archives, and Tyne and Wear Archives.
May 28, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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This Sunday May 11, 8pm GMT/ 3pm EST Julie Fette and I are in conversation on French Presse to discuss our new books offering transatlantic perspectives on the development of literature, book cultures and publishing for the young in contemporary France. Register 👇
www.eventbrite.com/e/frenchpres...
May 9, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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Love the @lurideditions.bsky.social reprints project. Looking forward to reading this.
lurideditions.bsky.social Lurid Editions @lurideditions.bsky.social · May 1
Happy publication day to In Transit, Brigid Brophy's heroi-cyclic masterpiece! Huge thanks to @brophylevey.bsky.social for believing in the project to publish a new edition of the novel, and for writing a brilliant foreword. We're so proud to be publishing this mind/sex bending novel. #booksky
Copy of In Transit published by Lurid editions Text says Happy publication day In Transit Brigid Brophy's heroi-cyclic masterpiece
May 1, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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darrenchetty.bsky.social
I’ll be in conversation with the superb Kandace Chimbiri at New Beacon Books on May 14th, talking about Beyond the Secret Garden (coauthored with @ksandsoconnor.bsky.social ) & the representation of Black people in British children’s books. Register www.eventbrite.com/e/beyond-the...
April 15, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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olivier-stucky.bsky.social
lpcm.hypotheses.org/38084
Journée d’étude: Changer de sens ? Adaptations des premiers mangas en francophonie
Changer de sens ? Adaptations des premiers mangas en francophonie 16 mai 2025, de 10h à 13h30 Plateforme 10, Auditorium Photo Elysée—mudac (Place de la gare 17, 1003 Lausanne) Organisé par David Javet...
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April 15, 2025 at 7:38 AM
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kaaauthor.bsky.social
The "Book Résumés" initiative from @uabookbans.bsky.social, @slj.com, and publishing partners is a powerful tool to combat censorship.

This free resource includes reviews, accolades, and more info on frequently-challenged books. New titles added regularly! buff.ly/dr3btyt
April 2, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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cforsdick.bsky.social
New report from @britishacademy.bsky.social on language skills & capabilities in the UK research base

Multilingual capabilities are integral to research excellence, impact and integrity

www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/publications...
Multilingualism in UK academic research
This report evidences the recognition, role and use of multilingualism in UK academic research fields outside Modern Languages.
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk
April 9, 2025 at 7:20 AM