Elizabeth Briggs
@elizabethlines.bsky.social
Publishing Director @SaqiBooks. Edits, rights (homophone) etc. Substacking about Britain’s forgotten faiths and radicals @Dissenters. Tomorrow there'll be apricots.
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My first substack! Holy Spirits: pubs, churches and the soul of the British village. Includes shots of all kinds.
🍻 PLUS my top 5 dissenting pub recommendations 🍻
Free to read. Thanks so much for the support. 👉 open.substack.com/pub/dissente...
🍻 PLUS my top 5 dissenting pub recommendations 🍻
Free to read. Thanks so much for the support. 👉 open.substack.com/pub/dissente...
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Dame Elizabeth Cadbury, the Victorian philanthropist who led an "extraordinary life" campaigning for women's and children's rights to health and education is to be honoured with a blue plaque www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Blue plaque to honour 'extraordinary' Cadbury philanthropist
The plaque will be unveiled to women's and children's campaigner Elizabeth Cadbury on Thursday.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 6, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Dame Elizabeth Cadbury, the Victorian philanthropist who led an "extraordinary life" campaigning for women's and children's rights to health and education is to be honoured with a blue plaque www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Talk staff at my local post office are relatively attentive, however.
October 18, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Talk staff at my local post office are relatively attentive, however.
That’s a wrap! Creasing from my final Frankfurt Book Fair meeting 2025.
Me: what have you got, Viktor?
Viktor *exhausted, last meeting*: I will pitch you this. This is … a book.
#AWrap #frankfurtbookfair #books
Me: what have you got, Viktor?
Viktor *exhausted, last meeting*: I will pitch you this. This is … a book.
#AWrap #frankfurtbookfair #books
October 17, 2025 at 4:10 PM
That’s a wrap! Creasing from my final Frankfurt Book Fair meeting 2025.
Me: what have you got, Viktor?
Viktor *exhausted, last meeting*: I will pitch you this. This is … a book.
#AWrap #frankfurtbookfair #books
Me: what have you got, Viktor?
Viktor *exhausted, last meeting*: I will pitch you this. This is … a book.
#AWrap #frankfurtbookfair #books
YES to questions and maybe even some answers w/ incredible @lamornaash.bsky.social and Abi Millar
💫Belief in the Age of Uncertainty
🏠 Wimbledon Book Festival
📆 Sat 18 Oct, 3pm
👉 www.wimbledonbookfest.org/events/lamor...
💫Belief in the Age of Uncertainty
🏠 Wimbledon Book Festival
📆 Sat 18 Oct, 3pm
👉 www.wimbledonbookfest.org/events/lamor...
Belief in the Age of Uncertainty | Wimbledon BookFest
Explore faith, spirituality, and meaning with Lamorna Ash & Abi Millar at Wimbledon BookFest, sharing personal journeys beyond religion,
www.wimbledonbookfest.org
October 12, 2025 at 7:38 PM
YES to questions and maybe even some answers w/ incredible @lamornaash.bsky.social and Abi Millar
💫Belief in the Age of Uncertainty
🏠 Wimbledon Book Festival
📆 Sat 18 Oct, 3pm
👉 www.wimbledonbookfest.org/events/lamor...
💫Belief in the Age of Uncertainty
🏠 Wimbledon Book Festival
📆 Sat 18 Oct, 3pm
👉 www.wimbledonbookfest.org/events/lamor...
🖊️ JOB OPENING!
🎙️ calling all sales / marketing publishing professionals
📚 looking for your next move in trade publishing?
🧡 please share
👉 saqibooks.com/careers/
@saqibooks.bsky.social
🎙️ calling all sales / marketing publishing professionals
📚 looking for your next move in trade publishing?
🧡 please share
👉 saqibooks.com/careers/
@saqibooks.bsky.social
Careers – Saqi Books
Sales & Marketing Executive Salary range: £27,000 – £30,000 Location: West London, Hybrid Contract: Permanent, Full-time Deadline: 7 November 2025 At Saqi Books, we’ve been publishing stories that con...
saqibooks.com
September 30, 2025 at 4:04 PM
🖊️ JOB OPENING!
🎙️ calling all sales / marketing publishing professionals
📚 looking for your next move in trade publishing?
🧡 please share
👉 saqibooks.com/careers/
@saqibooks.bsky.social
🎙️ calling all sales / marketing publishing professionals
📚 looking for your next move in trade publishing?
🧡 please share
👉 saqibooks.com/careers/
@saqibooks.bsky.social
Honoured to join @englishpen.bsky.social to talk about translating in a hostile world, with Meera @roundtablebookscic.bsky.social, Nariman @poetrytranslation.bsky.social and others this week for #ITD2025
September 28, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Honoured to join @englishpen.bsky.social to talk about translating in a hostile world, with Meera @roundtablebookscic.bsky.social, Nariman @poetrytranslation.bsky.social and others this week for #ITD2025
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We are proud to announce 'Love is Resistance':
77 posters by artists, writers & musicians worldwide, standing in solidarity with Palestine.
Hang them. Carry them. Remember.
All proceeds go to @ajyalfoundation, supporting children in Gaza and displaced communities.
Follow link in bio for more.
77 posters by artists, writers & musicians worldwide, standing in solidarity with Palestine.
Hang them. Carry them. Remember.
All proceeds go to @ajyalfoundation, supporting children in Gaza and displaced communities.
Follow link in bio for more.
September 4, 2025 at 1:46 PM
We are proud to announce 'Love is Resistance':
77 posters by artists, writers & musicians worldwide, standing in solidarity with Palestine.
Hang them. Carry them. Remember.
All proceeds go to @ajyalfoundation, supporting children in Gaza and displaced communities.
Follow link in bio for more.
77 posters by artists, writers & musicians worldwide, standing in solidarity with Palestine.
Hang them. Carry them. Remember.
All proceeds go to @ajyalfoundation, supporting children in Gaza and displaced communities.
Follow link in bio for more.
PREGNANT WOMEN WHO MADE HISTORY. This week I thought, what the heck – one of the great things studying history can do is make you realise that you are never alone; that no problem is new. Powerful women, this one’s for you.
👉 dissenters.substack.com/p/pregnant-w...
👉 dissenters.substack.com/p/pregnant-w...
August 17, 2025 at 2:03 PM
PREGNANT WOMEN WHO MADE HISTORY. This week I thought, what the heck – one of the great things studying history can do is make you realise that you are never alone; that no problem is new. Powerful women, this one’s for you.
👉 dissenters.substack.com/p/pregnant-w...
👉 dissenters.substack.com/p/pregnant-w...
Ever wondered why there's a bishop on a chessboard? Well, here's your answer 👇
Checkmate
Ever wondered why there's a bishop on a chessboard?
dissenters.substack.com
August 12, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Ever wondered why there's a bishop on a chessboard? Well, here's your answer 👇
Protest in Britain has never been more important. Here’s a surprising history of naked protest, which will make you think twice about who protests, and why.
The Naked Truth: A History of Naked Protest
A four-hundred-year-old history of the protesters baring all for a good cause.
substack.com
August 10, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Protest in Britain has never been more important. Here’s a surprising history of naked protest, which will make you think twice about who protests, and why.
Not the start to my debut book I had nightmared of, but the silver lining is to have been supported by other writes and literary people throughout. Thank you. 🧡
The Observer takes on the collapse of Unbound - some truly shocking allegations, almost all of which I have seen compelling evidence of as a member of the Unbound author WhatsApp group and through my own experience of being published by them observer.co.uk/news/busines...
Death of a publishing dream: how the Unbound revolution b...
The literary disrupters enjoyed great success with their crowdfunding model, signing authors that other publishers overlooked. And then the money ran out…
observer.co.uk
August 10, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Not the start to my debut book I had nightmared of, but the silver lining is to have been supported by other writes and literary people throughout. Thank you. 🧡
My first substack! Holy Spirits: pubs, churches and the soul of the British village. Includes shots of all kinds.
🍻 PLUS my top 5 dissenting pub recommendations 🍻
Free to read. Thanks so much for the support. 👉 open.substack.com/pub/dissente...
🍻 PLUS my top 5 dissenting pub recommendations 🍻
Free to read. Thanks so much for the support. 👉 open.substack.com/pub/dissente...
August 3, 2025 at 4:49 PM
My first substack! Holy Spirits: pubs, churches and the soul of the British village. Includes shots of all kinds.
🍻 PLUS my top 5 dissenting pub recommendations 🍻
Free to read. Thanks so much for the support. 👉 open.substack.com/pub/dissente...
🍻 PLUS my top 5 dissenting pub recommendations 🍻
Free to read. Thanks so much for the support. 👉 open.substack.com/pub/dissente...
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Bombing for peace is like burning books to promote literacy.
June 22, 2025 at 6:00 AM
Bombing for peace is like burning books to promote literacy.
The perils of @britishlibrary.bsky.social and red ink ✍️
June 18, 2025 at 6:20 PM
The perils of @britishlibrary.bsky.social and red ink ✍️
WE’RE HIRING!
Editorial Manager sincerely wanted.
Please come and work with me 🥳 info here 👉 saqibooks.com/careers/
Editorial Manager sincerely wanted.
Please come and work with me 🥳 info here 👉 saqibooks.com/careers/
a man in a black suit is sitting at a desk with a pen in his hand and smiling .
ALT: a man in a black suit is sitting at a desk with a pen in his hand and smiling .
media.tenor.com
June 17, 2025 at 2:38 PM
WE’RE HIRING!
Editorial Manager sincerely wanted.
Please come and work with me 🥳 info here 👉 saqibooks.com/careers/
Editorial Manager sincerely wanted.
Please come and work with me 🥳 info here 👉 saqibooks.com/careers/
Love this. Very into both oaths and swearing this week #sorrynotsorry
June 6, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Love this. Very into both oaths and swearing this week #sorrynotsorry
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There was a long lived Heron at Kew National Archives, named Herod. It would guard the entrance for years, died ~3 years ago. Named Herod by the archivists for the ducklings it would eat every spring 😬
May 24, 2025 at 3:33 PM
There was a long lived Heron at Kew National Archives, named Herod. It would guard the entrance for years, died ~3 years ago. Named Herod by the archivists for the ducklings it would eat every spring 😬
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My plans for a major retail emporium are being threatend by wholesalers who won't let me steal the stock.
May 24, 2025 at 8:33 AM
My plans for a major retail emporium are being threatend by wholesalers who won't let me steal the stock.
Art of the Palestinian Poster, at P21 Gallery, London until 14 June
May 23, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Art of the Palestinian Poster, at P21 Gallery, London until 14 June
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Please join this vigil and readings for Alaa Abd el-Fattah on Thurs 22nd May outside Downing Street. The situation is critical - the UK Government need to do all they can, urgently, to free Alaa.
#FreeAlaa
#FreeAlaa
Alaa Abd el-Fattah completed his unjust five-year prison sentence last September. Yet seven months later, he remains in prison.
Join us for a vigil in support of Alaa and his mother Laila Soueif, both currently on hunger strike. #FreeAlaa
www.englishpen.org/posts/campai...
Join us for a vigil in support of Alaa and his mother Laila Soueif, both currently on hunger strike. #FreeAlaa
www.englishpen.org/posts/campai...
May 19, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Please join this vigil and readings for Alaa Abd el-Fattah on Thurs 22nd May outside Downing Street. The situation is critical - the UK Government need to do all they can, urgently, to free Alaa.
#FreeAlaa
#FreeAlaa
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Every year, my church does a 4 day walking pilgrimage from Trafalgar Square to Canterbury Cathedral. I'm only walking one day of it this time, but I am raising money to help the homeless in London, in aid of The Connection, St Martin's homelessness charity.
www.justgiving.com/page/captain...
www.justgiving.com/page/captain...
St Martin in the Fields Annual Pilgrimage
Help Daniel Kaszeta raise money to support The Connection at St Martin-in-the-Fields
www.justgiving.com
May 14, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Every year, my church does a 4 day walking pilgrimage from Trafalgar Square to Canterbury Cathedral. I'm only walking one day of it this time, but I am raising money to help the homeless in London, in aid of The Connection, St Martin's homelessness charity.
www.justgiving.com/page/captain...
www.justgiving.com/page/captain...
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Welcome to our Venue!
The origins of this former Episcopal Palace date to c.1200-1235 & it has been added to over the centuries.
It hosted James VII/II in 1687, and on 5-6 July 2025, it will host the Stuart History Festival.
Coming soon: the festival's schedule & 10 speakers...
The origins of this former Episcopal Palace date to c.1200-1235 & it has been added to over the centuries.
It hosted James VII/II in 1687, and on 5-6 July 2025, it will host the Stuart History Festival.
Coming soon: the festival's schedule & 10 speakers...
May 3, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Welcome to our Venue!
The origins of this former Episcopal Palace date to c.1200-1235 & it has been added to over the centuries.
It hosted James VII/II in 1687, and on 5-6 July 2025, it will host the Stuart History Festival.
Coming soon: the festival's schedule & 10 speakers...
The origins of this former Episcopal Palace date to c.1200-1235 & it has been added to over the centuries.
It hosted James VII/II in 1687, and on 5-6 July 2025, it will host the Stuart History Festival.
Coming soon: the festival's schedule & 10 speakers...