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Dr Liam Sims
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No longer using this account. Find me on BlueSky (liamsims.bsky.social) or Instagram (antiquarianliam). Rare Books Specialist @theUL | Fellow @SocAntiquaries
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    Dr Liam Sims
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    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
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    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.
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    Vincent Kearney
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    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
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    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.
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    Time Capsule Tales
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    Oct 25, 2024
    In your opinion, what is the single greatest photograph in history?
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    Dr Liam Sims
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    Apr 28, 2022
    Wisteria hysteria on Orchard Street, Cambridge. #wisteriahysteria
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    Dr Liam Sims
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    Feb 25, 2024
    Bow down before the majesty of my giant Yorkshire.
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    Dr Liam Sims
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    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
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    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
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    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)
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    Dr Liam Sims
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    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
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    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.
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    Andrea 🌻
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    Jan 13, 2024
    Post your favourite b&w photo Mum (left) and my godmother
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    Dr Liam Sims
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    Aug 29, 2022
    Wine somehow tastes better from a glass made in the 1740s.
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    Dr Liam Sims
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    Sep 15, 2022
    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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    Dr Liam Sims
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    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
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    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.
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