No longer using this account. Find me on BlueSky (liamsims.bsky.social) or Instagram (antiquarianliam). Rare Books Specialist @theUL | Fellow @SocAntiquaries
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14 Dec 2024
Returning briefly to this hellscape to note that my PhD thesis is now available online through the University of Leicester repository! 'Sociability, Provincial Antiquarianism and Networks of Knowledge in the Spalding Gentlemen's Society, 1710-1755'. figshare.le.ac.uk/articles/t…
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We are having technological troubles with internet at the Society of Antiquaries and tonight’s lecture will likely not be broadcast online. Our speaker will be recording his talk at a later date.
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1 Dec 2024
Not updating this account regularly. Find me on Instagram (@antiquarianliam) or BlueSky (@liamsims.bsky.social).
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1 Dec 2024
Going to post an image of lovely Monty every day this month by way of a little memorial (#dailybabe). Here he is aged 3 or 4 when we’d just met him at the Blue Cross in the summer of 2013, sitting with his toy owl Archimedes. With @aglmasters. #CatsofTwittter
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1 Dec 2024
We are excited to show off 24 beautiful books from our forthcoming catalogue of bindings in the form of an Advent calendar! Our book for Day 1 is the smallest of the bunch, a magnificent binding of silver filigree over blue silk on a miniature London Almanack.
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30 Nov 2024
Yesterday was hard. Thank you to so many constituents for your thoughtful comments on my speech on the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill.
For those of you who want to watch it, you can see a shorter version below 👇 or in full here:
youtu.be/XEBx8DPcZkg
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30 Nov 2024
Queen Elizabeth II beneath an umbrella on arrival at Cornwall Terrace, Regent’s Park, London in 1963.
#QueenElizabethII
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29 Nov 2024
The funeral cortège for comedian Janey Godley arrives on the Royal Mile in Edinburgh
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29 Nov 2024
Réaliser ensemble l’impossible.
C’est la France.
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Thrilled beyond words that Notre Dame is safe once more, but is it just me or is it *too* bright? I say this as a gay who never has the big light on. But I do think something of the medieval mystery & age of the place is lost with such a lighting scheme.
29 Nov 2024
I remember Notre Dame de Paris as very impressive but gloomy. Now look at it. Wow!
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29 Nov 2024
Have turned off notifications for this app now and am engaging only sparingly. Come find me elsewhere.
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29 Nov 2024
I'm loving how the Archbishop of Paris currently has Macron captive in Notre Dame and is boring him to tears with endless explanation of relics
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EN DIRECT | Dernière visite de chantier de la Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Paris avant sa réouverture. x.com/i/broadcasts/1yoJMyjEy…
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28 Nov 2024
Me walking through Manchester City Centre after the Charli XCX gig had finished
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28 Nov 2024
Our most majestic Monty had to be put to sleep yesterday. Sad doesn’t begin to cover it & it will take a long time to get used to his absence from our daily lives. But we were lucky to enjoy his company for 11 of his 15 years & he will always be with us. With @aglmasters.
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28 Nov 2024
This was such fun!
28 Nov 2024
First edition Austens, tiny poetry books and satirical textbooks...
An eclectic array of material came out for the masterclass led by Timothy Young (@yalebritishart) following his Sandars Lectures on Resistance to Bibliography.
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28 Nov 2024
Gorgeous Angel tool on the spine of this Greek New Testament (Sedan, 1628). Currently on eBay.
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27 Nov 2024
This is giving Henry VIII’s Great Bible vibes: tiny God squished in at the top above a gigantic enthroned Henry.
27 Nov 2024
Wow. Not sure I’ve ever seen heresy, blasphemy, and idolatry all mashed together like this before now.
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