Dr Liam Sims

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…

We are having technological troubles with internet at the Society of Antiquaries and tonight’s lecture will likely not be broadcast online. Our speaker will be recording his talk at a later date.

@51monheaders @demontforthall @uniofleicester Thanks 😊

@liamsims @demontforthall @uniofleicester Thank you so much! It’s lovely to know that the music made such a positive contribution to your day. Congratulations on your PhD.

Privileged to have been playing the @demontforthall organ for the @uniofleicester grads this week. Always a pleasure! The organ is a real jewel for the city. It also makes an incredible backdrop to this photo (c) @uniofleicester of Lord Vallance who received an honorary degree.

@faellie2 @greenleejw Snake, apparently...

@liamsims Is that an eel on the ceiling? @greenleejw

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…

@RevRichardColes Hugs 🥰

@CamLibResearch @Quaritch @theUL @JillWhitelock There’s a curious ‘Grolier’ binding in Sandars; old but messed with. But this is more likely Hagué: a Cologne 1503 work on St Ursula. Bought by the great Stephen Gaselee at Fairfax Murray’s sale in 1917 (in which cat. attributed to Hagué). Gold initials look odd too. F150.d.1.10.

@Quaritch Don’t we have a fake binding by Hagué @theUL - @JillWhitelock - @liamsims ?

A magnificent sixteenth-century strapwork binding ... or is it? Day 3 of our #QuaritchAdventCalendar is this 1548 edition of the works of Catullus, Tibullus, and Propertius, bound not in the sixteenth century but in the nineteenth by the notorious forger Théodore Hagué ...

Not updating this account regularly. Find me on Instagram (@antiquarianliam) or BlueSky (@liamsims.bsky.social).

Going to post an image of lovely Monty every day this month by way of a little memorial (#dailybabe). Here he is aged 3 or 4 when we’d just met him at the Blue Cross in the summer of 2013, sitting with his toy owl Archimedes. With @aglmasters. #CatsofTwittter

We are excited to show off 24 beautiful books from our forthcoming catalogue of bindings in the form of an Advent calendar! Our book for Day 1 is the smallest of the bunch, a magnificent binding of silver filigree over blue silk on a miniature London Almanack.

@samueljenkinson 🥹🥹

LOOK AT HIM

Yesterday was hard. Thank you to so many constituents for your thoughtful comments on my speech on the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill. For those of you who want to watch it, you can see a shorter version below 👇 or in full here: youtu.be/XEBx8DPcZkg

Queen Elizabeth II beneath an umbrella on arrival at Cornwall Terrace, Regent’s Park, London in 1963. #QueenElizabethII

@RezekJoe Totally agree

@AyAyRon86 🤤

The funeral cortège for comedian Janey Godley arrives on the Royal Mile in Edinburgh

Réaliser ensemble l’impossible. C’est la France.

@Footprintsofag1 Yes it feels like something of the story is lost when everything is scraped.

@liamsims As some else said, it's very French. Whether it's chateaux or churches they seem to like their restorations to make things look as good as new. I knew a French architect who always complained that English country houses looked "not so very clean".

Thrilled beyond words that Notre Dame is safe once more, but is it just me or is it *too* bright? I say this as a gay who never has the big light on. But I do think something of the medieval mystery & age of the place is lost with such a lighting scheme.

@RobinWardSSH Eek yes. Makes it look like 19thC neo-gothic

@liamsims It’s very French, like the Chartres restoration