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Simon Beattie
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Antiquarian bookseller, literary translator, choral composer. New album here: https://orchid-music.lnk.to/theworldtome
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Out now: a new album of my music, recorded by the critically acclaimed London Choral Sinfonia. www.orchidclassics.com/releases/orc...
I heard at the weekend that St Paul’s Cathedral Choir is going to be singing my piece Advent Calendar at their Advent carol services this coming weekend, so that’s exciting. soundcloud.com/simon-42-1/a...
November 24, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Modern language (and music) degrees are under threat at the University of Nottingham. Please do consider signing this petition. c.org/4FzYVvBstF
We Can Make an Impact.
Stop the removal of Modern Languages courses at the University of Nottingham!
c.org
November 24, 2025 at 9:17 AM
It's that day in The Broadway.
November 21, 2025 at 12:45 PM
1968 Russian translation of Imogen Holst's study of Benjamin Britten.
November 20, 2025 at 1:27 PM
November 19, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Live scenes from The Broadway.
November 19, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Back in the office today after ten days in the US. Lots to catch up on, but I'm being distracted by the shadows on my desk: so wide, and yet so narrow.
November 17, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Just time for a little bibliotourism before flying home.
November 13, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Before and after.
November 7, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Visited Harvard Memorial Church yesterday where, a year or two ago, the choir there performed my piece A Remembrance in this chapel lined with the names of Harvard graduates who died in the First World War. A really moving space.
November 7, 2025 at 10:31 AM
A lesson for us all here.
November 7, 2025 at 2:04 AM
By a woman, for a woman: bookplate designed by the etcher Louise Le Daulceur (1721–1755) for Marie Angélique Angran d’Alleray (1724–1802). On view at the Boston book fair later this week.
November 4, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Out now: a new album of my music, recorded by the critically acclaimed London Choral Sinfonia. www.orchidclassics.com/releases/orc...
November 4, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Is this just a Russian, or perhaps Soviet, phenomenon? Names of contributors who have died are printed within a black frame. This example in a Russian-English dictionary from 1959.
October 30, 2025 at 2:59 PM
October 30, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Anglo-American artist Louisa Starr (1845–1909) was the first woman to gain medals for excellence from the Royal Academy Schools.
October 27, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Printed dust-jackets. From 1835!
October 24, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Double bill advertising a London performance by the American actress Charlotte Cushman (and her sister) in 1847.
October 23, 2025 at 3:28 PM
My Christmas cactus is getting a bit ahead of itself.
October 22, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Preparing for the Boston book fair.
October 20, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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🦇 Nocte Volamus = We Fly by Night 🦇

The best motto to have around #Halloween time for your heraldic bookplate. This particular bookplate comes from our Charles Hall Crouch collection of heraldic bookplates, which encompasses around 30-40,000 bookplates in 73 boxes!
October 16, 2025 at 12:12 PM
October 15, 2025 at 11:21 AM
The acer's acing it again this year.
October 13, 2025 at 9:47 AM
For #WorldMentalHealthDay, I offer 'With one's thoughts', a poem by Anna Akhmatova I had translated which I then set to music in 2021, summing up various thoughts and feelings I had during lockdown. open.spotify.com/track/70Qs65...
With One's Thoughts
open.spotify.com
October 10, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Very different kind of 18th-century bindings from yesterday's photo, but I still love them.
October 9, 2025 at 11:58 AM