Sam Brown

@samuscript.bsky.social

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PhDing at UCL on Arabic in England pre-1635. Northerner. Sometime documentary producer. Human 🦜 perch. www.lifeandotherstories.co.uk

Signage at the exhibition, hung on a light green wall. The title 'Getting the Measure of William Bedwell' is in the foreground.
A view down a cobbled street in Leiden. Wisteria grows up the doorway of a building on the right, opposite an old fashioned black street light
A tote bag featuring the title page of ‘The Arabian Trudgman’ is next to an original copy of ‘The Historie of Guicciardin’ open at its title page. Both feature the printer’s device of Richard Field.
Two laptops are open next to each other on the plane, PowerPoint presentations are being edited on both
A chunky brown leather book with two metal clasps is pictured on a green desk. The cover is embossed with a gold armorial crest featuring a wolf’s head above a shield.
An ornately carved two-storey façade of a seventeenth-century house. It is windowless and made of dark brown wood. It towers above the viewer, and the glass ceiling of the V&A is seen above it.
A 19th century photograph shows the old vicarage in Tottenham. It has big bay windows on the left hand side and is covered in ivy. In front of it are trees and a small garden, and another, later building is to its right at ninety degrees.
A green parrot with yellow patches on her head and cheek sits on my hand while I try to work at my laptop
Inside Chetham’s library in Manchester, UK. Dark wooden book cases are filled with old volumes. The building’s medieval roof rises above them.