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Dr Liam Sims

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Dr Liam Sims

@liamsims

No longer using this account. Find me on BlueSky (liamsims.bsky.social) or Instagram (antiquarianliam). Rare Books Specialist @theUL | Fellow @SocAntiquaries

Cambridge

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Joined April 2012

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Dr Liam Sims
@liamsims
Dec 14, 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/thesi…
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Dr Liam Sims
@liamsims
May 24, 2024
This country's getting far too American. If the late Queen could manage with one or two, I think the PM probably can.
Vincent Kearney
@vincekearney
May 24, 2024
After a whistle stop visit to a maritime company in Belfast UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is off for a cuppa and then back to London @rtenews
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Dr Liam Sims
@liamsims
Oct 26, 2024
One of the earliest born people to be photographed: Martin Routh (born 1755), President of @magdalenoxford for 63 years. Photographed aged 99 in 1854.
Time Capsule Tales
@timecaptales
Oct 25, 2024
In your opinion, what is the single greatest photograph in history?
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Dr Liam Sims
@liamsims
Apr 28, 2022
Wisteria hysteria on Orchard Street, Cambridge. #wisteriahysteria
Dr Liam Sims
@liamsims
Feb 25, 2024
Bow down before the majesty of my giant Yorkshire.
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Dr Liam Sims
@liamsims
Sep 18, 2024
Life update: wonderful and actually enjoyable PhD viva with Anna Marie Roos & Felicity James this afternoon, passed (astonishingly) with no corrections. I am one happy boy. #PhDone
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Dr Liam Sims
@liamsims
Jul 26, 2024
With a huge sense of joy & relief I have just submitted my PhD thesis. 79,869 words. 241 pages. 5 years & 10 months of my life. Looking forward to a summer of rest & a viva in a couple of months. But now, champagne with a long-suffering but patient & lovely @aglmasters. #phdlife
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Dr Liam Sims
@liamsims
Dec 2, 2020
Just found some amazing waste paper used in the binding a 1575 London edition of Cicero’s De Officiis @theULSpecColl (Sun.8.57.135). The name John Lesley/Leslie & his initials appear in some of the blocks, & ‘for John Robertson Glasgow’ is written on one sheet. (1/3)
Dr Liam Sims
@liamsims
Sep 8, 2022
Indescribably humbling to help ring all five tons of a half-muffled Great Tom @ChCh_Oxford this evening. I don’t know how to feel at the moment but this helped a lot.
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Dr Liam Sims
@liamsims
Jan 15, 2024
Post your favourite black & white photo. Martin Routh, President of @magdalenoxford for 63 years, taken shortly before his death aged 99 in 1854. The wig is preserved @MagdLibAndArch. One of the earliest born people (1755) to have been photographed.
Andrea 🌻
@SpectralHeron
Jan 13, 2024
Post your favourite b&w photo Mum (left) and my godmother
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Dr Liam Sims
@liamsims
Aug 29, 2022
Wine somehow tastes better from a glass made in the 1740s.
Dr Liam Sims
@liamsims
Sep 15, 2022
Joined #TheQueue at 19.30 precisely, somewhere near Southwark Park. Going to tweet along to try & keep myself sane. Stay tuned!
Dr Liam Sims
@liamsims
Dec 25, 2023
The eleventh-century mosaic of the Virgin & Child from Torcello, #Venice, on this Christmas morning.
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Dr Liam Sims
@liamsims
Oct 20, 2020
Everard’s Printing Works in Bristol, built in 1900 with a Pre-Raphaelite #artnouveau façade. The tiles, by William Neatby (at Doulton), depict #Gutenberg (L) & #WilliamMorris (R) along with fonts used by both.