Dr Mark Purcell

Director, Research & Collections, Cambridge University Library. Bye-Fellow, Pembroke College. Proctor. AIL Panel. Country House Library (2017). Private views.

[Dr Mark Purcell @CamLibResearch]

@arthistorynews Am currently research-focussed on Rochester Cathedral (on the post-Reformation library). This encourages,

[Liverpool Vista @LiverpoolVista]

A foggy Canning Street, Liverpool.

[Dr Mark Purcell @CamLibResearch]

@DanielJHannan Your memory is misleading you. I was there for every service in the late 80s & early 90s as I was (as you will remember) the Organ Scholar and directing the music, The congregation on an average Sunday evening was way more than low double figures. Typically 30-40 and often more.

[Liverpool Vista @LiverpoolVista]

A foggy Port of Liverpool Building, down by the river. Goodnight folks.

[Cambridge University @Cambridge_Uni]

Peak autumn in Cambridge 🍂

📸 Lloyd Mann

[Orkney Uncovered @OrkneyUncovered]

St Magnus Cathedral

[Cantabria Románica @CantRomanica]

Uno de los cuatro enormes capiteles cilíndricos de los arcos torales de la Colegiata de San Martín de Elines. El león andrófago, el nacimiento a nueva vida. Una constante en la escultura de la Colegiata. Flipante.

#cantabria #arte #historia #románico #medieval

[Ruthie G 🌸 @RuthieGenie]

#WindowsOnWednesday at Dr Johnson’s house, London …

[Andy Marshall 📸 @fotofacade]

It was a jaw dropping moment when I first stepped beneath the towering arches of Peterborough's surviving medieval infirmary and saw homes woven into them. The thread of continuity hadn’t broken one bit, but simply taken on another life.

[Grizzlegutweed the Bear @Grizzlegutweed1]

The ironwork on the chapter house doors- circa 1250-60
#Yorkminster

[Grizzlegutweed the Bear @Grizzlegutweed1]

Looking up into the vault of the Chapter house York Minster- 1270s-80s

[Dr Anne E Bailey @AnneEBailey1]

15th-century rood screen at St Mary's, Kersey, Suffolk. Images include St Edmund of Bury holding his arrow.
📸2021

[Dr Mark Purcell @CamLibResearch]

@DrFrancisYoung It looks quite restrained to me.

[Ennius @red_loeb]

The writing is on the wall

BL Add 11695; Jerome, Commentary on Daniel; 1091-1109; Spain, North; f.235r @BLMedieval

[Dr Mark Purcell @CamLibResearch]

@WalkerMarcus Was there last December. Utterly astonishing

[William Whyte @william_whyte]

A really jolly book launch and an amazing cake from Oxford’s own @happycakesuk

[Dr Mark Purcell @CamLibResearch]

@zatzi @Rabbitybee Dog-whistle stupidity.

[John McCafferty @jdmccafferty]

2 Sept 1691: d. Shen Fuzong Michael Alphonsus of Nanjing of shipboard fever en route from Lisbon to Goa. Shen had toured Europe with plans for new Jesuit missions in China. In 1687 James II asked Godfrey Kneller to paint Shen's portrait which is still in The Royal Collection.

[Dr Mark Purcell @CamLibResearch]

@LordNortonLouth @UniOfHull @PoliticsatHull Yum

[Dr Francis Young @DrFrancisYoung]

I’ve arrived in Warwick for @WarwickWords!