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Sophie Heywood (she/her)
@sophieheywood.bsky.social
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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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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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!

@thebookerprizes.com

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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
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
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
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
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 ...
journals.openedition.org
September 19, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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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...
September 16, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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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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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.
July 15, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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It’s cover reveal time!

Feast your eyes on THIS SLAVERY, coming out this September from @SelfMadeHero.bsky.social
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...
June 26, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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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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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...
album50.hypotheses.org
June 11, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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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
Congratulations @buxiduan.bsky.social!
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…
textualsociety.org
June 13, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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
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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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 🗃
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
June 4, 2025 at 6:07 AM
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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
May 28, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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
Love the @lurideditions.bsky.social reprints project. Looking forward to reading this.
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
May 1, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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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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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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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