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Liam Sims

Rare Books Specialist

Directorate: Research Collections

Division: Special Collections

Department: Rare Books and Early Manuscripts

Email: ls457@cam.ac.uk

Instagram: @antiquarianliam

Liam Sims' role includes acquisition and cataloguing of printed materials from the fifteenth century to the present day, teaching, outreach, exhibitions and oversight of the University Library's Historical Printing Room and associated collections.

Liam is currently working on a part-time PhD into the knowledge networks of the early eighteenth-century Spalding Gentlemen's Society, a collaborative doctoral partnership sponsored by the AHRC-funded Midlands4Cities partnership.

Affiliated organisations:

  • Cambridge Bibliographical Society (Treasurer)

Professional memberships:

  • Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London
  • Freeman of the Worshipful Company of Stationers & Newspaper Makers.

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