Dr Liam Sims
@liamsims.bsky.social
Rare Books Specialist @theul.bsky.social |
Hon. Secretary @bibsoc.bsky.social | Fellow @antiquaries.bsky.social | Venetophile | Bellringer | PhD on antiquarian networks in 18thC Lincolnshire (thesis linked in pinned post) 🌈
Hon. Secretary @bibsoc.bsky.social | Fellow @antiquaries.bsky.social | Venetophile | Bellringer | PhD on antiquarian networks in 18thC Lincolnshire (thesis linked in pinned post) 🌈
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Dr Liam Sims
@liamsims.bsky.social
· Dec 14
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/the...
Fun discovery @theulspeccoll.bsky.social today: wonderful 1820s imagery depicting the 11th-century samurai warrior Minamoto no Yoshiie, changing into his armour. CUL FJ.973.50.
November 10, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Fun discovery @theulspeccoll.bsky.social today: wonderful 1820s imagery depicting the 11th-century samurai warrior Minamoto no Yoshiie, changing into his armour. CUL FJ.973.50.
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Maybe we should bring back wearing "a Choice Sort of Black Inck in Hard Balls, with that Conveniency, that you may wear them about you, without any Damage to the Inck, or your Linnen." just mix with any water or wine (except red)!
November 10, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Maybe we should bring back wearing "a Choice Sort of Black Inck in Hard Balls, with that Conveniency, that you may wear them about you, without any Damage to the Inck, or your Linnen." just mix with any water or wine (except red)!
Pointy. In a work by Jerónimo Osório, printed at Lisbon in 1567 and now @theulspeccoll.bsky.social Adv.c.8.1.
November 7, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Pointy. In a work by Jerónimo Osório, printed at Lisbon in 1567 and now @theulspeccoll.bsky.social Adv.c.8.1.
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William Stukeley, English antiquary, pioneered archaeological exploration of Stonehenge & Avebury sites, born #OTD 1687.
Society of Antiquaries, London
Society of Antiquaries, London
November 7, 2025 at 6:22 AM
William Stukeley, English antiquary, pioneered archaeological exploration of Stonehenge & Avebury sites, born #OTD 1687.
Society of Antiquaries, London
Society of Antiquaries, London
One of my favourite student seminars of the year, looking at Venetian Sessa imprints wry cats @theulspeccoll.bsky.social 🐱
November 6, 2025 at 11:22 AM
One of my favourite student seminars of the year, looking at Venetian Sessa imprints wry cats @theulspeccoll.bsky.social 🐱
A hammered bronze lion’s head, made in the 8th century BCE, and spotted last week in the museum at Olympia, Greece. The eyes would have been inlaid and it was possibly attached to a votive shield or used as a building decoration.
November 6, 2025 at 8:35 AM
A hammered bronze lion’s head, made in the 8th century BCE, and spotted last week in the museum at Olympia, Greece. The eyes would have been inlaid and it was possibly attached to a votive shield or used as a building decoration.
Printing historians! A student asked today the purpose of the black dots around the Aldine mark in this copy of his Dante (1502). Perhaps they’re just a way of framing it but I’ve not noticed it before. @theulspeccoll.bsky.social Young.253.
November 5, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Printing historians! A student asked today the purpose of the black dots around the Aldine mark in this copy of his Dante (1502). Perhaps they’re just a way of framing it but I’ve not noticed it before. @theulspeccoll.bsky.social Young.253.
The @bibsoc.bsky.social has advertised the 2026 round of grants for bibliographical research. Do have a peek!
Every year, The Bibliographical Society awards a number of major grants to those engaged in bibliographical research with primary focus on the physical object as historical evidence.
November 4, 2025 at 1:59 PM
The @bibsoc.bsky.social has advertised the 2026 round of grants for bibliographical research. Do have a peek!
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November 3, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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Rescuers work to reach worker trapped in medieval tower that partially collapsed in Rome
https://abc7.com/post/rescuers-work-reach-worker-trapped-medieval-building-torre-dei-conti-partially-collapsed-rome-italy/18108892/
https://abc7.com/post/rescuers-work-reach-worker-trapped-medieval-building-torre-dei-conti-partially-collapsed-rome-italy/18108892/
Rescuers work to reach worker trapped in medieval tower that partially collapsed in Rome
Firefighters worked to rescue a worker trapped for hours beneath the rubble of a medieval tower that partially collapsed while under renovation in the heart of Italy's capital on Monday, critically injuring another worker.
abc7.com
November 3, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Rescuers work to reach worker trapped in medieval tower that partially collapsed in Rome
https://abc7.com/post/rescuers-work-reach-worker-trapped-medieval-building-torre-dei-conti-partially-collapsed-rome-italy/18108892/
https://abc7.com/post/rescuers-work-reach-worker-trapped-medieval-building-torre-dei-conti-partially-collapsed-rome-italy/18108892/
Excited to have been elected Hon. Secretary of @bibsoc.bsky.social, doing good work to promote bookish research since 1892. Daunted to be following in the footsteps of the great A. W. Pollard (pictured in 1928), R. B. McKerrow & Mirjam Foot among others, but looking forward to new things!
November 3, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Excited to have been elected Hon. Secretary of @bibsoc.bsky.social, doing good work to promote bookish research since 1892. Daunted to be following in the footsteps of the great A. W. Pollard (pictured in 1928), R. B. McKerrow & Mirjam Foot among others, but looking forward to new things!
Spotted you in the wild @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social! Alongside Geoffrey Munn’s display of early modern magical objects @antiquaries.bsky.social on Friday.
November 2, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Spotted you in the wild @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social! Alongside Geoffrey Munn’s display of early modern magical objects @antiquaries.bsky.social on Friday.
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As part of the Fredson Bowers award from @bibsoc.bsky.social (🙏) I’ll be giving a short talk on ‘The reassembly, analysis and appraisal of John Bellingham Inglis (1780-1870): #rarebooks collector; savant; scholar; slave owner’
November 18th, 5-7pm.
In person / online bibsoc.org.uk/event/panel-...
November 18th, 5-7pm.
In person / online bibsoc.org.uk/event/panel-...
November 2, 2025 at 9:13 AM
As part of the Fredson Bowers award from @bibsoc.bsky.social (🙏) I’ll be giving a short talk on ‘The reassembly, analysis and appraisal of John Bellingham Inglis (1780-1870): #rarebooks collector; savant; scholar; slave owner’
November 18th, 5-7pm.
In person / online bibsoc.org.uk/event/panel-...
November 18th, 5-7pm.
In person / online bibsoc.org.uk/event/panel-...
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Somewhat astonishingly, here it is, a book, a thing in the world... More, including acknowledgements, soon❤️
October 31, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Somewhat astonishingly, here it is, a book, a thing in the world... More, including acknowledgements, soon❤️
Skeletons for #Halloween, from the Nuremberg Chronicle (1493). About the least rare rare book in existence (@theulspeccoll.bsky.social has 5 copies) but this one hand-coloured and part of a donation made in 1574 by Elizabeth I's Archbishop of Canterbury Matthew Parker. Inc.0.A.7.2[888].
October 31, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Skeletons for #Halloween, from the Nuremberg Chronicle (1493). About the least rare rare book in existence (@theulspeccoll.bsky.social has 5 copies) but this one hand-coloured and part of a donation made in 1574 by Elizabeth I's Archbishop of Canterbury Matthew Parker. Inc.0.A.7.2[888].
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I hate gay Halloween what do you mean you’re an uncataloged book someone tried to rebind with duct tape
October 31, 2025 at 1:26 PM
I hate gay Halloween what do you mean you’re an uncataloged book someone tried to rebind with duct tape
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🎃 Happy Halloween! This appropriately spooky binding comes from a sammelband of works on the guillotine, containing thirteen items on its invention, history, use, and physiological effects.
October 31, 2025 at 12:30 PM
🎃 Happy Halloween! This appropriately spooky binding comes from a sammelband of works on the guillotine, containing thirteen items on its invention, history, use, and physiological effects.
Second brandy feeding of the Christmas cake.
October 30, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Second brandy feeding of the Christmas cake.
Now back home from a wonderful 6 days in Greece (Athens, then a 1300-km coach tour including Epidaurus, Olympia, Mycenae, Delphi & the hilltop monasteries of Meteora). This #owl is in the Acropolis Museum: made in the 4th century BC and found in the Odeion of Pericles at the SE foot of the Acropolis
October 30, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Now back home from a wonderful 6 days in Greece (Athens, then a 1300-km coach tour including Epidaurus, Olympia, Mycenae, Delphi & the hilltop monasteries of Meteora). This #owl is in the Acropolis Museum: made in the 4th century BC and found in the Odeion of Pericles at the SE foot of the Acropolis
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Genuinely delighted to download a PhD thesis from a university repository where the author has neglected to remove the words "BITCH THIS IS YOUR THESIS" from the filename.
October 30, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Genuinely delighted to download a PhD thesis from a university repository where the author has neglected to remove the words "BITCH THIS IS YOUR THESIS" from the filename.
Less great when your washing machine packs up. Bye bye cash.
Holidays are great and all but it’s bloody lovely to get home.
October 30, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Less great when your washing machine packs up. Bye bye cash.
Holidays are great and all but it’s bloody lovely to get home.
October 29, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Holidays are great and all but it’s bloody lovely to get home.
Back in Athens for one more night. Time for drinks & Parthenon views. With @aglmasters.bsky.social (who took the pic).
October 28, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Back in Athens for one more night. Time for drinks & Parthenon views. With @aglmasters.bsky.social (who took the pic).