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Rare Books Specialist @theUL | PhD student @UoLEnglish on C18 antiquarian networks @sg_soc | Fellow @SocAntiquaries | Venetophile | Bellringer | 🏳️‍🌈

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Liam Sims

27 days

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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Liam Sims

3 months

This country's getting far too American. If the late Queen could manage with one or two, I think the PM probably can.

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Vincent Kearney

3 months

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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2 years

Wisteria hysteria on Orchard Street, Cambridge. #wisteriahysteria

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6 months

Bow down before the majesty of my giant Yorkshire.

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4 years

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)

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Liam Sims

2 years

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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Liam Sims

7 months

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.

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Post your favourite b&w photo Mum (left) and my godmother

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Liam Sims

2 years

Wine somehow tastes better from a glass made in the 1740s.

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Liam Sims

2 years

Joined #TheQueue at 19.30 precisely, somewhere near Southwark Park. Going to tweet along to try & keep myself sane. Stay tuned!

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Liam Sims

8 months

The eleventh-century mosaic of the Virgin & Child from Torcello, #Venice , on this Christmas morning.

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Liam Sims

4 years

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.

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Liam Sims

2 years

After 1 failed purchase & 17 months trying to buy our own place, we finally got the keys to one half of a former Victorian post office today. Nice to be greeted by a festive knitted post box decoration too! With @aglmasters .

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Liam Sims

3 years

Ooops. Tragic indeed.

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Liam Sims

2 years

I have just completed cataloguing a collection of about 1650 volumes @theULSpecColl (75% of which are seen here), a project begun in June 2019 & interrupted by COVID. In a digital world it’s so satisfying to see physically the neat & tidy fruits of my labour. (1/3).

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Liam Sims

4 years

A few years ago I inherited a vast collection of #postcards of #libraries . Thought it might be nice to post one every day & enjoy them. Here’s @TrinCollLibCam c. 1910, with bookcases containing William Grylls’ 1863 bequest down the centre, probably removed in the ‘60s refurb.

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Liam Sims

3 years

June Spencer, who plays Peggy in @BBCTheArchers , in 102 today!

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Liam Sims

2 years

The world's shit but I catalogued a cool thing this morning so it can't all be bad...

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Cambridge UL Special Collections

2 years

We added an extremely cool thing to our shelves today: a 38-volume early 19thC French travelling library - the ‘Bibliothèque Portative du Voyageur’ - house in a book-shaped box. #newacquisition (1/6)

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Liam Sims

11 months

Why has Cambridge market square been infected with this tourist sh*te? Cambridge has nothing whatever to do with Harry Potter 😡

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Liam Sims

1 year

Never a dull moment @theUL .

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Liam Sims

2 years

Thanks to the lovey people @The_Globe for letting The Queue use their loos. Bloody excellent Shakespearean notice! #shakespeare

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Liam Sims

4 years

Incredible scenes @theUL before full #COVID19 closure at 5pm. Staff from across the Library helping hundreds of readers find books, check them out & provide help. All the emotions in my second home right now.

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Liam Sims

3 years

Ever wondered what a bookish don’s rooms looked like at Cambridge in the 1880s? Here are Henry Bradshaw’s ( @theUL Librarian) in the Wilkins Building @Kings_College ) in 1886, probably photographed just after his death that February. @theULSpecColl Cam.a.500.10.

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Liam Sims

4 years

An oldie but a good one, pilfered from Facebook...

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Liam Sims

3 years

Surprised to learn that @Wedgwood once made a jasperware telephone…

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Liam Sims

2 years

Name a finer view from a train in the UK. I’ll wait…

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Liam Sims

9 months

Have just sent off to my supervisors 73,000 words of my first complete PhD draft (minus conclusion at this stage) for their delectation over the next six weeks. So I get a nice break from it over Christmas, which will be glorious. #phdlife

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Liam Sims

4 years

Lovely light @theUL this morning.

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Liam Sims

2 years

In at 4.15 and now walking through a waking London to a train home to Cambridge. Exhausted but beyond happy that I came. Fuller thoughts after sleep. Thanks all. X

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Liam Sims

2 years

I can't bring myself to listen to this because own voice = awful. But it was fun to share this little travelling library @theULSpecColl more widely today!

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BBC Cambridgeshire

2 years

It's a set of books, inside a book! @liamsims from @theULSpecColl talks through a 19th century mobile library.

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Liam Sims

11 months

Unfortunate cropping there, @UniofOxford …

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Liam Sims

1 year

Visited England’s smallest parish church today: St Beuno, Culbone (Somerset), measuring just 35 feet long & nestling in a wooded combe above the north coast of Exmoor. The ‘most isolated & picturesque church in England’, according to Simon Jenkins.

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1 year

Gonna start doing this 🥰

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1 year

‘Handwritten manuscript’, you say?

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1 year

Time to impart the mysteries of printing to some students @theUL !

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1 year

Typography is key.

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Bernard Mulcahy OP

1 year

When you want a Church that’s not too Catholic.

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Liam Sims

1 year

Bibliographical friends: Robin Myers, former archivist of @stationerscomms & @CorpusCambridge & first woman President of @BibSoc died this morning, on her 97th birthday. I was pleased to call her my friend & will miss her wicked sense of humour & our evenings of bookish chat.

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Liam Sims

6 years

Some amazing 6th-century wall paintings in the catacombs of St Gennaro yesterday

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Liam Sims

4 months

Being a Saturday librarian in the seemingly never-ending stacks of @theUL .

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Liam Sims

2 years

Two years to the day since what felt like the whole of Cambridge descended on @theUL to borrow what they could before we closed the doors at 5pm. An odd two years but finally things seem to be improving.

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2 years

The 11th-century mosaic of the Virgin & Child from Torcello, #Venice , on this Christmas morning.

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Liam Sims

1 year

The great Barry Humphries had a lovely bookish bookplate, designed by Roland Pym. Humphries was the 344th member of the Roxburghe Club, the world’s premier bibliophile society, founded in 1812. Membership is limited to forty at any time. This is in a book on my shelves… (1/2)

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Liam Sims

3 years

This copy of William Pratt’s Arithmeticall Jewel (London, 1617) @theULSpecColl (Syn.8.61.78) contains a C17 ivory & brass device based on the book’s frontispiece, housed inside the front board. No mention of it in the record so one for updating! One for @sci_instruments . (1/2)

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Liam Sims

3 months

A sighting of #AuroraBorealis at Alwalton (near Peterborough) in 1742 is recorded in the @sg_soc minutes: 'Several dusky streams of light began to move quick & waving from west to east & chang'd instantly into bright colours strong & cleare, red, crimson, yellow & blue.'

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Liam Sims

4 years

Dead or alive? Amusing note found with a medieval MS @hilda_beastoxf this week with @jilld17 . ‘Dr Hunt’ presumably R. W. Hunt, Keeper of MSS @bodleianlibs , a post now occupied by @anjdunning .

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Liam Sims

6 months

Just cataloguing a large and rather dull eighteenth-century legal book and this fell out of the back. Looks like Henry VIII has been teleported to a 1920s flapper party (which, no doubt, he’d have loved).

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Liam Sims

2 years

A twelfth-century doorway off the cloister at Buildwas Abbey, Shropshire. #AdoorableThursday

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Liam Sims

3 years

Well this isn’t a bad view. #oxford

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Liam Sims

10 months

Just came through King’s Cross on our way back from Belgium to find Mika singing Christmas songs atop Lang Lang’s piano. Weird.

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Liam Sims

9 months

Been thinking for a while I should be better acquainted with the great Cambridge writer E. M. Forster, and chanced upon these lovely little pocket editions at David’s bookshop yesterday 🎉

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Liam Sims

3 years

I am finally home! My first trip to G. David since 23 December. #bookshopsareback

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3 years

Twenty-two years’ worth of William Stukeley’s almanacks, used for diary-keeping, noting down his wife’s expenses, and gifts received (mostly meat). @bodleianlibs MS Eng. misc. d. 719.

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Liam Sims

4 years

One of the quirkier reasons I miss being @theUL is that at the beginning of the month I usually wind @CamUniLibrarian ’s clock (an unofficial task inherited from a former colleague). A gorgeous 1690s Thomas #Tompion with the most soothing bell. #horology #clocks #libraries

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2 years

Wow. That’s a pleasant surprise from @Cambridge_Uni !

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Liam Sims

5 months

Gorgeous scene of a Jacobean printing shop, from the title page of Alexander Cooke’s ‘Yet more worke for a masse-priest’ (London, 1622). Notice the typesetter in the background & the ink man left foreground with his ink balls. @theULSpecColl Syn.7.62.300.

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Liam Sims

4 years

Thrilled that my beloved G. David bookshop - home of #Cambridge bookish types since 1896 - has reopened. Had a lovely rummage this morning after 5 months away. Do pop by if you’re local or visiting. More of their stock now on @AbeBooks too:

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Liam Sims

2 years

A stunning binding on my desk today, executed in #Leuven in the 1540s by Jacob Pandelaert, who signed his initials lower right. The figure is a personification of Hope. On a copy of Lucretius printed in Leuven in 1542 & now @theULSpecColl Rel.c.54.2. #bookbinding

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2 years

Had this chonky boi out for a visitor this afternoon: the Liber Privilegiorum of Cambridge University. A collection of University legal documents copied in the 1590s by Robert Hare. Stunning medieval-style illumination, including King Arthur & a rather chubby St Gregory. (1/2)

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3 years

Lovely to be the only person in a gorgeous medieval church at 7pm, locking up. Benches made 1534. #churches

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2 years

Handed over the keys to our old flat today so life in our new place is fully underway! Time for champagne with @aglmasters in some gorgeous new glasses 🍾

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4 years

Lovely bit of early sixteenth-century printed waste used as a bookbinding, with stamped heraldic features. From @theULSpecColl ’s collection of fragments. #rarebooks

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Liam Sims

4 months

Have spent a little over a year, on and off, cataloguing hundreds of 19thC book sale catalogues @theULSpecColl , received in 1975 from Tim Munby's library but until now not fully catalogued. Enjoy!

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Cambridge UL Special Collections

4 months

Hundreds of nineteenth-century book auction catalogues @theul now catalogued & available! Read more here:

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4 years

Afternoon light @theUL

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2 years

Amused & outraged in equal measure by this shelf of ‘dull books’ in an Edinburgh bookshop last week (outraged because two of the six are about libraries!).

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Liam Sims

1 year

Think I’ve discovered a book belonging to the great painter Angelica #Kauffman (b. 1741): Tasso’s Il Goffredo (1754), an author whose work she would later illustrate. A quick Google suggests she spelled her surname this way in a document in 1759. @theULSpecColl 7740.e.45.

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Liam Sims

3 years

Fleeting evidence of a past reader in my copy of The Spectator (London, 1753): a slip of notepaper marked twice with the word ‘languishingly’…

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Liam Sims

8 months

Can we banish the phrase ‘openly gay’ to the fucking dark ages please?

@SkyNews

Sky News

8 months

BREAKING: Emmanuel Macron has appointed France's youngest ever prime minister - and the first to be openly gay. 34-year-old Gabriel Attal became a household name as government spokesperson during the COVID pandemic. 📺 Sky 501 and YouTube

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Liam Sims

5 months

Had the very great honour of helping to ring Great Paul @StPaulsLondon for #Easter today. Cast in 1881 it weighs 16.5 tons, is 11 feet across, & makes an immense noise. Sound up 🔊

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Liam Sims

3 years

Popped into Peterborough Cathedral for some ‘private prayer’ this afternoon. Stunning place. The nave reminiscent of Ely. Stonking churchyard too & bits and piece of monastic buildings all over the place. Need a proper visit post-plague.

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3 years

It begins. #WisteriaHysteria in Cambridge.

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3 months

Spent a total of 1hr 15m in London today, picking up a donation of ‘about thirty’ (in fact, 66) books once owned by @theUL Librarian A. F. Scholfield. Lots of stuff he had at school (Eton) covered in schoolboy scribbles. Great stuff but this packhorse is knackered 🥵

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2 years

A ghostly Fenland mist descends upon @theUL .

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2 years

A few tricky days tending broken-armed husband greatly improved by sharing @Nigella_Lawson ’s Carbonnade a la Flamande with a friend. A gorgeous Belgian beef stew with dark beer, beef stock, mustard, dark sugar, allspice & thyme. Served with mash & carrots 🤤

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2 years

Lady on the train back from Gloucestershire had the most marvellous #owl cape!

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7 months

Some psychedelic 18thC endpapers on a copy of Cuthbert Tunstall’s ‘De arte supputandi’ (London, 1522), the first book on arithmetic to be published in England. This copy, printed on vellum, was given to @theUL by Tunstall soon after publication. @theULSpecColl Sel.3.262.

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4 months

St George and the dragon, from a book of magic spells and incantations written in Syriac (Northern Iraq?, 18th century?). Given to @theULSpecColl in 1891 by University Librarian Francis Jenkinson. MS Add. 3086. #StGeorgesDay #StGeorge

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Liam Sims

4 years

Thirteen years ago today I began my life as a #librarian as the Graduate Trainee at the stunning @TrinCollLibCam . Now @theUL is my workplace. How lucky am I? #cambridge

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5 months

@JayHulmePoet See also ringing in Bologna. Terrifying. And they stopped for Prosecco half was through ‘cos it was a feast day 😆

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Liam Sims

5 months

He returns! Several teeth lighter & very hungry but otherwise the same gorgeous creature.

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5 months

This little bundle of gorgeousness is at the vet today having his teeth done under anaesthetic & I am a bundle of cat-Dad nerves 😬

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3 years

Five years (plus eight) officially shackled to the lovely @aglmasters . Happy days.

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4 years

I am @theUL for the first time in 130 days & it is MARVELLOUS. #notworkingfromhome

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Liam Sims

2 years

Just discovered the gloriously named Tinkler Ducket of Norfolk. A fellow of @CaiusCollege until his expulsion in 1738 for ‘atheism & immorality’. Lived out his days in #Venice & Constantinople. Sounds like a hoot!

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Liam Sims

1 year

A husband who ‘doesn’t want to live in a library’ 👀

@jared_hill

Lowkey Jared, Highkey Jesus 🐑

1 year

Friends, what’s keeping you from having this many books?

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3 years

I was going to wait until #ForeEdgeFriday to post these glitzy blue, red & gold fore-edges @theULSpecColl , but they’re too good to wait. On Gibbon’s Decline & Fall (Dublin, 1788-9), from the library of the Earl & Countess of Enniskillen (CCC.48.12-17). #foredgefriday

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1 year

A Delftware unicorn from a fireplace in Rembrandt’s house, for #TilesOnTuesday .

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3 years

A most amusing find @witchmuseum , spotted in July: a ‘cocke rock’, to be placed under the pillow on a full moon to guarantee conception. Used until the 1920s & sent anonymously to the Boscastle Museum of Witchcraft & Magic ‘because no one in my village now believes in its powers’

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4 years

Just rearranged the #Venice shelves of my library. Not a bad little collection. #bibliophile

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5 months

Library cat Odysseus greeting me @theUL this morning. #CatsofTwittter

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Liam Sims

4 years

Am clearly missing being a librarian. Have spent the afternoon rationalising my shelves. Now have distinct shelves for #Venice , #poetry & #Cambridge & have tidied the #gay shelf. Now for a rest. #shelfie #lockdown

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3 years

I hope it's not immodest to say that in June I found a book from Gabriel Harvey's library lurking unrecognised in a bookseller's catalogue. Pleased to say it's now on the shelves @theULSpecColl with four of its former shelfmates. #provenance

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We are excited to have added a hitherto unknown book from the library of Elizabethan scholar Gabriel Harvey to our shelves! #provenance

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1 year

The afternoon sun illuminating the eighteenth-century Royal Library bookcases @theUL never gets dull.

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Liam Sims

3 years

After much delay, @aglmasters & I found out on Friday that an offer we made on a lovely ground floor flat in Cambridge has been accepted! Won’t be moving in for a while & lots to sort out, but excited to be buying our first place!

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5 months

This was a happy day. Handed it in at a nearby police station and as it wasn’t collected I got to have it three months later. Bought a book 😆

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Liam Sims

2 years

Next month (23 February) I'm putting on a pop-up display @theUL on 'Queer connections in literary Cambridge' for #LGBTHM / @LGBTHM . All welcome & no booking required. More info at the link below. It precedes a talk that evening by @JustinBengry ... (1/2)

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5 months

Queen Elizabeth I died #OTD in 1603. This volume of sermons by John Udall (London, 1596) luxuriously bound in velvet & with silver thread may have been made for presentation to the Queen, carrying her arms on both covers. @theULSpecColl SSS.24.32.

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Liam Sims

2 years

The substantial ruins of Buildwas Abbey, Shropshire, a couple of weeks ago. A Cistercian foundation begun in 1135, it enjoyed precisely 401 Easters before its suppression by Henry VIII in 1536. Now in the care of @EnglishHeritage . Many of its manuscripts now @TrinCollLibCam .

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Liam Sims

7 months

A great day @BeineckeLibrary . Amongst other things, sat in on a student class on medieval liturgical MSS (including a gorgeous 14thC Hours complete with peacock, MS 657), saw their Gutenberg & heard some bells.

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Liam Sims

1 year

Not a bad place for a committee meeting.

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Liam Sims

2 years

Staff @theUL were taught the 'Library Hand' until well into the twentieth century. It recommended odd numbers dropping below the line. More at

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Patrick’s Rare Books

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2 years

I don’t know who she was, but I like the low x-height in her lettering, and those sevens dropping below the line are great too. #books #type #typography

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Liam Sims

1 year

This #WorldBookDay I was lucky enough to happen upon some books with hand-drawn #flowers on their vellum spines. Presumably from the same source but now scattered among the books of John Moore, Bishop of Ely (1646-1714) @theULSpecColl . You might like, @JillWhitelock .

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