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Sophie Heywood (she/her) @sophieheywood.bsky.social · 1d

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
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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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Centre for Book Cultures & Publishing (CBCP) @UniofReading @cbcp-unirdg.bsky.social · 15d

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...

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Sophie Heywood (she/her) @sophieheywood.bsky.social · 16d

The Centre for Book Cultures and Publishing autumn events is now live 📚 All welcome, events are free - join us1
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Sophie Heywood (she/her) @sophieheywood.bsky.social · 21d

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 [email protected] by Dec 1, 2025.
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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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Laura Tisdall @lauratisdall.bsky.social · 24d

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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Sophie Heywood (she/her) @sophieheywood.bsky.social · Aug 27

It was tough work locating that one for you... 😂 Glad it's useful!!

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Centre for Book Cultures & Publishing (CBCP) @UniofReading @cbcp-unirdg.bsky.social · Aug 6

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...

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Doctoral & Researcher College, University of Reading @unirdg-phd.bsky.social · Jul 15

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.

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Rickard Sisters @rickardsisters.com · May 17

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’

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We Need Diverse Books @weneeddiversebooks.bsky.social · Jun 26

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.

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Cécile Boulaire @cecileboulaire.bsky.social · Jun 16

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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Cécile Boulaire @cecileboulaire.bsky.social · Jun 11

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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Cécile Boulaire @cecileboulaire.bsky.social · Jun 10

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...

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Sophie Heywood (she/her) @sophieheywood.bsky.social · Jun 13

Congratulations @buxiduan.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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Sophie Heywood (she/her) @sophieheywood.bsky.social · Jun 12

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

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Sophie Heywood (she/her) @sophieheywood.bsky.social · Jun 10

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 👇

Cécile Boulaire @cecileboulaire.bsky.social · Jun 9

Lecture du moment: l'excellent essai de Sophie Heywood sur Hachette et les livres pour la jeunesse en temps de guerre froide album50.hypotheses.org/9752 #LitteratureJeunesse #BookHistory

Lecture du moment: Hachette et les livres pour la jeunesse en temps de guerre froide

Je voudrais rendre compte ici du formidable essai publié par Sophie Heywood aux éditions Bloomsbury : Children’s Publishing in Cold War France: Hachette in the Age of Surveillance and Control. Ce livr...

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Laura Tisdall @lauratisdall.bsky.social · Jun 4

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 🗃

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

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Lucie Matthews-Jones @luciejones83.bsky.social · May 28

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

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Sophie Heywood (she/her) @sophieheywood.bsky.social · May 9

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...

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Sophie Heywood (she/her) @sophieheywood.bsky.social · May 1

Love the @lurideditions.bsky.social reprints project. Looking forward to reading this.

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

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Darren Chetty @darrenchetty.bsky.social · Apr 15

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...

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Olivier Stucky @olivier-stucky.bsky.social · Apr 15

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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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Katherine Applegate @kaaauthor.bsky.social · Apr 2

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

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Charles Forsdick @cforsdick.bsky.social · Apr 9

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.

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Research at Reading @uor-research.bsky.social · Apr 7

Books would be nothing without #publishers – but women in the print industry have often been overlooked. The monumental Edinburgh Companion to Women in Publishing recounts the work of female printers, typesetters and editors between 1900 and 2020!

#booksky
📙 rdg.ac/3DYB0Gx

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