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Matt Ryan @heggledepeg.bsky.social · Feb 11

Hi. I'm Matt. I write about things. Mostly 16thc things. Here are a few of those things:

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Matt Ryan @heggledepeg.bsky.social · 27d

** The Museum of Liverpool crawls through the hypocaust and stabs @romanpalace.bsky.social ce.bsky.social **

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Ashmolean Museum, Oxford @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social · Aug 30

📸 What photo, that you have taken, is your favourite? 📸

This portrait was chosen by Victorian photographer, Julia Margaret Cameron, as her favourite. Having taken up photography at the age of forty-eight, Cameron became a pioneer of photography.

My Favourite Picture, 1867. WA.OA.1352

A sepia toned photograph of a young woman looking to the right of the frame. She has long flowing hair.

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Matt Ryan @heggledepeg.bsky.social · Aug 29

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History Today @historytoday.com · Aug 28

Who was #MartinMarprelate, seditious pamphleteer and enemy of the #Elizabethan Church and state? And, more importantly, how could he be stopped?

🔒 Matt Ryan’s feature from the new issue is available in the archive

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The Hunt for Martin Marprelate

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Sarah Bendall @sarahabendall.bsky.social · Jan 6

@serenadyer.bsky.social & I are thrilled to announce that our edited book is out now!

It focuses on how processes of making, experimenting, experiencing, & reconstructing illuminate understandings around manual labour & material life.

Overview 🧵 on 📕 chapters & our contributors! 👇

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Alice Wickenden @awickenden.bsky.social · Aug 27

apparently my book comes out in September, wow, preorder it for all your library and intellectual history needs, stay for the section on Paradise Lost and John Ray's herbals, or the story of George Psalmanazar, my favourite early modern scammer www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...

Hans Sloane's Library Collection and the Production of Knowledge | Cambridge University Press & Assessment

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Matt Ryan @heggledepeg.bsky.social · Aug 26

Delighted that my article on the exploits of the Martin Marprelate gang is featured in this month's edition of @historytoday.com. Online here: www.historytoday.com/archive/feat... and in the flesh below!

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History Today @historytoday.com · Aug 21

The September issue of History Today is on sale from today!

Featuring: the #PeloponnesianWar, Birmingham’s influence on Muslim #India, the US occupation of Japan, #Elizabethan sedition, and more.

Find out what else is inside and where to get it at www.historytoday.com/magazine

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Matt Ryan @heggledepeg.bsky.social · Jul 14

Wow! I should really have visited when I was down in that neck of the woods. Didn't even get to Kelston - I'll definitely find a way there next time I'm over in the West country.

Matt Ryan @heggledepeg.bsky.social · Jul 14

He did, yeah. And earnt an appearance on South Park for his troubles: www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2B-.... I'm sure he'd have loved it. For E1's visit to Kelston in '92 he also engineered a massive fountain you could dine beneath! Quite the chap.

Sir Harrington

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Matt Ryan @heggledepeg.bsky.social · Jul 14

I was trying (and failed) to dig up some Catholic connections in Harington's dealings. What draws you to St Catherine's court?

Matt Ryan @heggledepeg.bsky.social · Jul 14

Hi Philippa - yes! He inherited from his father (also John) in the late 1580s. Oddly, I was just in the Somerset Heritage Centre looking at the deeds for the property. JH leased it (and the surrounding lands) to John Blanchard in '91, then sold it to William Blanchard in '94.

Matt Ryan @heggledepeg.bsky.social · Jul 12

Love the Marvell Universe.

Matt Ryan @heggledepeg.bsky.social · Jul 6

A Bristolian graffito. #RenSoc25

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Matt Ryan @heggledepeg.bsky.social · Jul 6

Likewise: follow Beth!

Beth DeBold @elizaaudacis.bsky.social · Jul 6

Do yall know Matt? You should know Matt, he’s great

Matt Ryan @heggledepeg.bsky.social · Jul 5

Had a fab time talking about Nashe, Chettle, and their printerly pals at the @srsrensoc.bsky.social conference. Thanks everyone for a gorgeous few days.

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Matt Ryan @heggledepeg.bsky.social · Jul 6

Hahahahaha, thanks Beth.

Matt Ryan @heggledepeg.bsky.social · Jul 5

Loved yours too Sierra. I'm defs going to dig into your Fleet Street idea.

Matt Ryan @heggledepeg.bsky.social · Jul 5

Had a fab time talking about Nashe, Chettle, and their printerly pals at the @srsrensoc.bsky.social conference. Thanks everyone for a gorgeous few days.

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Matt Ryan @heggledepeg.bsky.social · Jun 5

Always a joy to write about cheeky John Harington. Do have a read about his double dealing across the Irish Sea in my piece for @rtebrainstorm.bsky.social.

RTÉ Brainstorm @rtebrainstorm.bsky.social · Jun 5

The political sorcery of 'harmless buffoon' Sir John Harington. The poet, inventor and wannabe statesman played a secret role in controversial 1599 peace talks between Irish and English forces, writes Matt Ryan @newcastleuni.bsky.social www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

The political sorcery of 'harmless buffoon' Sir John Harington

The poet, inventor and wannabe statesman played a secret role in controversial 1599 peace talks between Irish and English forces

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Crawford Art Gallery @crawfordartgallery.bsky.social · Jun 1

RECCE: Cork Prison’s Education Unit

Now open until September on Spike Island, this exhibition features work created as part of our Beyond the Frame programme, an ongoing collaboration between Crawford Art Gallery and Cork Prison, curated by Matt Ryan and Daniel Sexton.

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Richard Smyth @rsmythfreelance.bsky.social · May 31

Why are they reporting it like it's a paramilitary coup?

BBC headline: Group backed by Judi Dench takes over North Yorkshire nature site.

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Daniel Sexton @dsextonartist.bsky.social · May 30

'with
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is now open at Spike Island as part of RECCE. Iam grateful for the contributions of @heggledepeg.bsky.social @crawfordartgallery.bsky.social, and Spike Island's curator, Dorota Gubbins.

It will be on display until the end of August.

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Matt Ryan @heggledepeg.bsky.social · May 30

Today our show 'with//out' opened as part of RECCE at Spike Island museum. Huge thanks to @dsextonartist.bsky.social, @crawfordartgallery.bsky.social and the curator on the island, Dorota Gubbins. It's up til the end of August - come and see!

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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · May 24

The comma shall be Oxford and the citations shall be Chicago and the 18th century is the longest. #historiantruths

Greg Jenner @gregjenner.bsky.social · May 24

What is this heresy? The long 18th century is the most famous long century of all!! 😉

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Joost Depuydt @joostdepuydt.bsky.social · May 24

Lynda Sayce plays a piece of lute music that was recently discovered in an archival document at the Museum Plantin-Moretus. Since the handwritten lute tablature was folded and reused as scrap paper, it's problaby the first time in 400 years that this music is heard.

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Matt Ryan @heggledepeg.bsky.social · May 17

Had a great time yesterday with @dsextonartist.bsky.social and Eimear Marley at the @irishmuseums.bsky.social conference in Dublin talking about our project with @crawfordartgallery.bsky.social. Thanks for having us!

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