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.

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

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...

🖊️ JOB OPENING! 🎙️ 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

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.

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...

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.

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...

Bombing for peace is like burning books to promote literacy.

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/

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

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 😬

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

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

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...

Inspired 🐸

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...

@jonathanhealey.bsky.social thank you so much for a fascinating walking tour and talk on Saturday at Burford. And thank you for taking the time to chat at the end 🙏 it means a lot. Looking forward to The Blood in Winter …

Sad because: my best half is away Happy because: half the bed empty means the WHOLE bedside table is available for NEW BOOKS 🩶 #everycloud @troopersnooks.bsky.social @patrickgalbraith.bsky.social

@jonathanhealey.bsky.social hello hello! I’m hoping to join your walking tour of Burford at the levellers day on Saturday. Do we need to sign up anywhere beforehand? Thanks!

FIVE DAYS to go until this ‘very civil’ tea and talk - and five tickets left too! Please join us if you … Like history ✔️ Like tea and cake ✔️ 📆 18 May, 3pm, Mill Hall, Claines 🎟️ Tickets here, or DM me shorturl.at/4jZE1

This is also us. We too have moral ambition in our work. Find a job that rewards you for making other people’s lives better. Be more dog 🐕

Holy shit, the Crab Museum went HARD

“These demands to remove & restrict books are not the result of any grassroots or popular sentiment…The majority are now originating from well-funded, organised groups and movements…” Sounds familiar to anyone who’s been dragged into UK culture wars too. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...

Absolutely CREASING at this tumble down memory lane @boundlessmagazine.bsky.social. My school used to give out book vouchers, then present the books we bought at an annual prize ceremony. We all bought Angus, Thongs & Full Frontal Snogging. Confiscated. We were presented with dictionaries instead 😂

Winning those bookshop crowns 👑 Big news for a small publisher @saqibooks.bsky.social

Things Quakers are guilty of: 🙋‍♀️ GUILTY: 400yrs peaceful protest 🙋‍♀️ GUILTY: ending transportation 🙋‍♀️ GUILTY: driving abolition 🙋‍♀️ GUILTY: first UK religious group to celebrate Queer marriage 🙋‍♀️ I’m guilty of attending Westminster Quaker Meeting House. See you soon, Friends. We have work to do 💪

One lesson I've learned from history, is that few reputations survive being on the opposite side to the Quakers www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve...

Neither would Quakers.

First they came for the Quakers And I said "Wait, the fucking QUAKERS?"

Setting up for London Book Fair amid existential crisis. Dropping everything to put this cardboard giraffe back together again. We are all Monday.

Thanks for reading! #BooksellingIsNotACrime

Proud to be one of them 📚

📚 An Ottoman Document Showing that Isa Efendi, a Book Enthusiast, Mortgaged His House in Exchange for Books he Purchased from a Woman Named Âlem Hâtun, 17th Century #BookStore #BookLover #Library

Sometimes the world feels upside down, but the book people's heads and hearts are in the right place. ❤️ Moved to see £1.5k+ raised 1 hour into the campaign to support Jerusalem's Educational Bookshop. Everyday, grateful. #BooksellingIsNotACrime www.gofundme.com/f/jerusalems...

Seeing footage of booksellers in handcuffs is shocking. One of the confiscated book was children’s colouring book, From the River to the Sea. Israel is now waging war on colouring books. I -

Got another stunning anthology on the go! Feb is LGBTQ+ history month. Tell your story 🧡💖💛

Good morning from Golders Green.

The Bricklayer of Auschwitz Who Saved Primo Levi broke me then out me back together again, better 💔 A kintsugi of a book.

The (alleged) 'Bacchanialian' religious sect in 1641: 'He which can drink most is worshipped among them, saying that he is chosen a priest to Bacchus'.

‘A marvel of sympathetic insight’ @thetls.bsky.social 'A Man of Few Words' pieces together the life of Lorenzo Perrone, who with few words saved the life of Primo Levi, yet left few traces of his own behind. Compassionate, worldly and prescient. Coming in Jan 2025.