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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...

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Dr Liam Sims @liamsims.bsky.social · 5h

St Cyprian, Bishop of Carthage, holding onto a chunky tome (complete with metal bosses) for dear life. In a copy of his works, printed at #Venice in 1471 by Wendelin of Speyer, one of a pair of German brothers. @theulspeccoll.bsky.social Inc.2.B.3.1b[1331].

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Anna-Lujz Gilbert @annalujz.bsky.social · 8h

A submission for early modern name of the day: Jewell Sparke, who subscribed in 1712, and signed his name with added sparkle

Close up photograph of eighteenth century manuscript, showing signature of Jewell Sparke with the ink forming glittery particles

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Dr Liam Sims @liamsims.bsky.social · 1d

Can anyone spare me £7500 for this gorgeousness Abbott & Holder?

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Rhianna Pratchett @rhi.bsky.social · 1d

Dad’s books are full of empathy, common sense, and a healthy suspicion of the powerful. But at its heart his work is also about how systems keep people poor while pretending it’s their own fault. So I hope Kemi’s taking notes as well as reading the jokes.

Paul Haine @paulhaine.bsky.social · 1d

Kemi Badenoch claiming Terry Pratchett as her favourite author is wild

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Dr Liam Sims @liamsims.bsky.social · 1d

Archbishop Laud was born #OTD in 1573. This copy of Lorenzo Traversagni’s ‘Margarita Eloquentiæ’ (St Albans, 1480), was almost certainly in his personal library& went to @bodleian.ox.ac.uk after his death. It was ejected as a duplicate in 1862 & is now @theulspeccoll.bsky.social Inc.5.J.4.1[3632].

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Richard Ovenden @richove.bsky.social · 1d

MLGB is back!! Delighted that Medieval Libraries of Great Britain @bodleian.ox.ac.uk is now back online. We are also working had on plans for the next phase of the resource, enhancing & adding data & functionality. HUGE thanks to my colleagues for their hard & clever work mlgb.bodleian.ox.ac.uk

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Dr Liam Sims @liamsims.bsky.social · 1d

GASP

Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social · 1d

GOOD NEWS !
"A team of musicologists has unearthed the printed score of a previously unknown Purcell song, as well as the original manuscript for various keyboard compositions."
#baroque #music
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/o...

‘Almost unheard of’: experts find more music by English composer Henry Purcell

Printed score and keyboard manuscript by Purcell, who died in 1695, unearthed in Worcestershire and Norfolk

www.theguardian.com

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James Wright @jpwarchaeology.bsky.social · 1d

Does anyone have any intel on reasonably priced city centre spaces which seat approximately 50-people located in...

1) Nottingham

2) Norwich

3) London

Historic building preferred but not essential.

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Dr Liam Sims @liamsims.bsky.social · 1d

In this case it's because some academic publishers have decided they no longer want to publish prestigious humanities journals so they're having to find other homes...

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Nix~🍉 @punklenix.bsky.social · 1d

So many things have gone sideways over the years. Careers yanked out from under me, an abusive marriage and the creeping destruction of democracy leading to the rapid spread of blatant fascism.

I get mental stability & the will to continue from doing simple things. Baking bread, canning & pickling.

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John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 1d

Rutilio Manetti A Life Study: a Monk Sleeping against a Pile of Books 1616 (The Morgan)

I think this is much more likely a friar than a monk. But it's still a wonderful image.

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Dr Liam Sims @liamsims.bsky.social · 2d

We weren't gazumped but buying our first place the seller pulled out at the last minute (the day all the paperwork was due). Nine or ten months had passed between offer being accepted & that point; we'd paid for everything including the survey, & had to pay the solicitors for everything. Pretty grim

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Laura Ashe @lauraashe.bsky.social · 2d

Epic; no notes

Headline from the Times: "Bestselling novelist Jilly Cooper dies in fall aged 88", illustrated with a rather famous black and white picture of Virginia Woolf

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Dr Liam Sims @liamsims.bsky.social · 2d

Isn't it!

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Dr Alan Montgomery @classicalalan.bsky.social · 2d

Next to majestic Ely Cathedral in Cambridgeshire can be found the remains of its medieval monastery, including the 12th-century Prior's House and parts of the infirmary complex. These are now regarded as the oldest collection of monastic buildings still in daily use in Britain. #MedievalMonday

A courtyard next to Ely Cathedral, its historical buildings boasting large Romanesque arches.

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John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 2d

I don't normally like glasses which obscure the colour of the wine but am loving this 17th century one from the Rijksmuseum.

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Dr Liam Sims @liamsims.bsky.social · 2d

THIS

Patrick @patrickwb95.bsky.social · 2d

It's funny how often people mispronounce "pronunciation"

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Dr Liam Sims @liamsims.bsky.social · 3d

John (L) and Henry (R), @metmuseum.org

Dr Liam Sims @liamsims.bsky.social · 3d

Gilt arms of Sir John Harington (1592-1614), on a copy of Lucan’s Pharsalia (Venice, 1498). He studied with Henry Prince of Wales & went on a tour of Europe: in Venice the English ambassador described him to the Doge as the Prince’s ‘right eye’. @theulspeccoll.bsky.social Inc.3.B.3.121[1756]. (1/2)

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Dr Liam Sims @liamsims.bsky.social · 3d

😊

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neil guthrie @nguthrie.bsky.social · 4d

Set of three grisaille paintings on leather depicting theatrical figures, possibly from the Commedia dell'arte (French, early #c18th #c18 #18thc), with Matthew Holder, London

The figures have heightened expressions and animated gestrures: one sings from an open songbook, another brandishes a jester's staff and the third plays the bagpipes. Painted in greys heightened with white

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Dr Liam Sims @liamsims.bsky.social · 4d

Nice red printers’ mark, for Andreas Torresanus, de Asula and Bartholomaeus de Blavis, de Alexandria, in their edition of the works of Cicero. Printed at #Venice in 1485 and bought by @theulspeccoll.bsky.social on Gustave David’s Cambridge market stall in 1923. CUL Inc.3.B.3.55b[1558].

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Dr Liam Sims @liamsims.bsky.social · 4d

Holiday homework 📖

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Dr Liam Sims @liamsims.bsky.social · 4d

1600 Pennsylvania Avenue (1976). A flop, but she was well received.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1600_Pe...

1600 Pennsylvania Avenue (musical) - Wikipedia

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Rick Turner @rickturner.bsky.social · 4d

Farewell Kitty.

I hope they remembered your showerproof and you made it back to Cheadle.

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