Matt Ryan
@heggledepeg.bsky.social
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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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Meanwhile, over on the Instagrams... I've started making videos (yikes).
Come and wander West Cork with me as we hunt down some delicious early modern ruins to explore.
Find me here: www.instagram.com/matt_tells_s...
Thanks! X
Come and wander West Cork with me as we hunt down some delicious early modern ruins to explore.
Find me here: www.instagram.com/matt_tells_s...
Thanks! X
October 12, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Meanwhile, over on the Instagrams... I've started making videos (yikes).
Come and wander West Cork with me as we hunt down some delicious early modern ruins to explore.
Find me here: www.instagram.com/matt_tells_s...
Thanks! X
Come and wander West Cork with me as we hunt down some delicious early modern ruins to explore.
Find me here: www.instagram.com/matt_tells_s...
Thanks! X
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📸 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
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
August 30, 2025 at 7:00 AM
📸 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
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
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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
www.historytoday.com/archive/feat...
🔒 Matt Ryan’s feature from the new issue is available in the archive
www.historytoday.com/archive/feat...
The Hunt for Martin Marprelate
www.historytoday.com
August 29, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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@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! 👇
It focuses on how processes of making, experimenting, experiencing, & reconstructing illuminate understandings around manual labour & material life.
Overview 🧵 on 📕 chapters & our contributors! 👇
January 6, 2025 at 1:52 PM
@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! 👇
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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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
www.cambridge.org
August 27, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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...
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!
August 26, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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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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
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
August 21, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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
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
Likewise: follow Beth!
Do yall know Matt? You should know Matt, he’s great
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.
July 6, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Likewise: follow Beth!
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.
July 5, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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.
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.
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
www.rte.ie
June 5, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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.
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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.
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.
June 1, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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.
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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Why are they reporting it like it's a paramilitary coup?
May 31, 2025 at 7:11 AM
Why are they reporting it like it's a paramilitary coup?
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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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out'
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.
May 30, 2025 at 9:25 PM
'with
//
out'
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.
//
out'
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.
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!
May 30, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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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The comma shall be Oxford and the citations shall be Chicago and the 18th century is the longest. #historiantruths
What is this heresy? The long 18th century is the most famous long century of all!! 😉
May 24, 2025 at 8:50 AM
The comma shall be Oxford and the citations shall be Chicago and the 18th century is the longest. #historiantruths
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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.
May 24, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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.
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!
May 17, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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!
For a little while now, I've been working with @crawfordartgallery.bsky.social, @dsextonartist.bsky.social, and a group of men who live in Cork Prison. We've been talking about art, exhibitions, and how our stories connect with the work in the gallery's collection. [1/2]
We have been working with Cork Prison, as part of our programme: Beyond the Frame. Beyond the Frame consists of discussion-based workshops, centred around artworks in Crawford Art Gallery’s collection, devised and led by curator and historian Matt Ryan.
May 6, 2025 at 3:38 PM
For a little while now, I've been working with @crawfordartgallery.bsky.social, @dsextonartist.bsky.social, and a group of men who live in Cork Prison. We've been talking about art, exhibitions, and how our stories connect with the work in the gallery's collection. [1/2]
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It’s not often that new biographical details for Shakespeare are discovered. The fragmentary remains of a letter puts him living with Anne Hathaway at a previously unknown address in London. www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
Shakespeare did not leave his wife Anne in Stratford, letter fragment suggests
Professor says text shows Hathaway lived with playwright in London, upending the established idea of an unhappy marriage
www.theguardian.com
April 23, 2025 at 8:00 AM
It’s not often that new biographical details for Shakespeare are discovered. The fragmentary remains of a letter puts him living with Anne Hathaway at a previously unknown address in London. www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
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Those poor medieval selkies
Surprise as sealskin is discovered to be cover material of ‘hairy’ medieval books
The findings from volumes kept in a Cistercian monastery in France shed new light on a robust medieval trade network that went well beyond local sourcing
www.theguardian.com
April 10, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Those poor medieval selkies
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My fave history book of 2025 (so far) is @moudhy.bsky.social’s Between Two Rivers. It’s so beautifully written, so compassionate, so enthralling — it’s a joyous ode to studying ancient Mesopotamia, written by a wonderful scholar. And her audiobook is great too 👍
www.audible.co.uk/pd/B0D1GRSJ8...
www.audible.co.uk/pd/B0D1GRSJ8...
April 9, 2025 at 9:38 PM
My fave history book of 2025 (so far) is @moudhy.bsky.social’s Between Two Rivers. It’s so beautifully written, so compassionate, so enthralling — it’s a joyous ode to studying ancient Mesopotamia, written by a wonderful scholar. And her audiobook is great too 👍
www.audible.co.uk/pd/B0D1GRSJ8...
www.audible.co.uk/pd/B0D1GRSJ8...
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Born (possibly) on this day in 1483, and died (alas!) on this day in 1520, Raphael. True genius of the renaissance. Here by himself, with a friend, in one of the great renaissance friendship portraits.
April 6, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Born (possibly) on this day in 1483, and died (alas!) on this day in 1520, Raphael. True genius of the renaissance. Here by himself, with a friend, in one of the great renaissance friendship portraits.
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HEY! This episode just dropped on all your favourite podcasting services. You don't have to listen, just download it to make me look popular ;)
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Final plug for my foray into #Arctic Exploration with You're Dead to Me - and also an endorsement: if the YDTM crew ever contact you to take part, say yes! I'm open about my mixed experience with "the media" & can say @gregjenner.bsky.social & team are the BEST I've ever worked with 🗃️
BBC Radio 4 - You're Dead to Me, Arctic Exploration: the fatal quest for the Northwest Passage
Join Greg and his guests to learn all about the perilous history of Arctic exploration.
www.bbc.co.uk
March 28, 2025 at 9:09 AM
HEY! This episode just dropped on all your favourite podcasting services. You don't have to listen, just download it to make me look popular ;)
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Happy #WorldTheatreDay! 🎭
For the day that’s in it, we’re highlighting works in our Collection which feature a variety of figures in theatre, from playwrights, stage actors, and theatre designers. Here’s to their incredible talent and long lasting impact, both on stage and off!
For the day that’s in it, we’re highlighting works in our Collection which feature a variety of figures in theatre, from playwrights, stage actors, and theatre designers. Here’s to their incredible talent and long lasting impact, both on stage and off!
March 26, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Happy #WorldTheatreDay! 🎭
For the day that’s in it, we’re highlighting works in our Collection which feature a variety of figures in theatre, from playwrights, stage actors, and theatre designers. Here’s to their incredible talent and long lasting impact, both on stage and off!
For the day that’s in it, we’re highlighting works in our Collection which feature a variety of figures in theatre, from playwrights, stage actors, and theatre designers. Here’s to their incredible talent and long lasting impact, both on stage and off!