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Elizabeth Briggs @elizabethlines.bsky.social · 8d

🖊️ JOB OPENING!

🎙️ calling all sales / marketing publishing professionals

📚 looking for your next move in trade publishing?

🧡 please share

👉 saqibooks.com/careers/

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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...

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Elizabeth Briggs @elizabethlines.bsky.social · 10d

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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Saqi Books @saqibooks.bsky.social · Sep 4

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.

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Elizabeth Briggs @elizabethlines.bsky.social · Aug 17

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...

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Elizabeth Briggs @elizabethlines.bsky.social · Aug 12

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?

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Elizabeth Briggs @elizabethlines.bsky.social · Aug 10

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.

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Elizabeth Briggs @elizabethlines.bsky.social · Aug 10

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. 🧡

Marie Phillips @mariephillips.bsky.social · Aug 9

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…

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Elizabeth Briggs @elizabethlines.bsky.social · Aug 10

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. 🧡

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Elizabeth Briggs @elizabethlines.bsky.social · Aug 3

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...

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Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini @karimwafa.bsky.social · Jun 22

Bombing for peace is like burning books to promote literacy.

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Elizabeth Briggs @elizabethlines.bsky.social · Jun 19

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Elizabeth Briggs @elizabethlines.bsky.social · Jun 18

The perils of @britishlibrary.bsky.social and red ink ✍️

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Elizabeth Briggs @elizabethlines.bsky.social · Jun 17

WE’RE HIRING!
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 .

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Elizabeth Briggs @elizabethlines.bsky.social · Jun 8

I’ve always loved hocus pocus as a potential corruption of mass, ‘hoc est corpus’ (this is the body)

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Elizabeth Briggs @elizabethlines.bsky.social · Jun 6

Love this. Very into both oaths and swearing this week #sorrynotsorry

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Elizabeth Briggs @elizabethlines.bsky.social · Jun 5

👏👏👏 that MAP though 🤩

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EveryHeron 𓅣 @everyheron.bsky.social · May 24

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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Simon Brew @simonbrew.bsky.social · May 24

My plans for a major retail emporium are being threatend by wholesalers who won't let me steal the stock.

A headline from The Times, with Nick Clegg saying that requiring permission from copyright holders to train AI on their word would 'kill' the AI industry. Boo fecking hoo.

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Elizabeth Briggs @elizabethlines.bsky.social · May 23

Art of the Palestinian Poster, at P21 Gallery, London until 14 June

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Daniel Gorman @dnlgorman.bsky.social · May 19

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

English PEN @englishpen.bsky.social · May 19

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...

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Elizabeth Briggs @elizabethlines.bsky.social · May 20

😅 I would love a footnote on what happened next for that frog …

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Elizabeth Briggs @elizabethlines.bsky.social · May 20

Eh? No need to turn a report of a harmless drunken prank into hate. We have enough of that today already thanks 💅🏼

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Dan Kaszeta FRHistS @dankaszeta.bsky.social · May 14

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...

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

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