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Dr Sam Bailey @18thcenturysam.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

On February 19 I'll be speaking alongside the excellent @heggledepeg.bsky.social at @keelrowbooks.bsky.social about aspects of early modern book history. I'm truly hoping to supply quality slop for the hogs. If you're in the area, you can sign-up here: www.tixtree.com/e/seminar-in...

Poster reads: Public lecture in early modern studies. (Title 1) 'Down and out in late-Tudor London: Elizabethan authorship and a history of the hustle' - Matt Ryan. (Title 2) 'Slop: writing as excrement from Gutenberg to ChatGPT' Free drinks reception and showcase of antiquarian books. 5-7pm 19 Feb.

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Matt Ryan @heggledepeg.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

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

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Matt Ryan @heggledepeg.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

** 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 · 30/08/2025

📸 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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Sarah Bendall @sarahabendall.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

@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 · 27/08/2025

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...

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

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Matt Ryan @heggledepeg.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

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 · 21/08/2025

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 · 14/07/2025

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.

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Matt Ryan @heggledepeg.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

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.

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Matt Ryan @heggledepeg.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

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

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Matt Ryan @heggledepeg.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

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.

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Matt Ryan @heggledepeg.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

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

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Matt Ryan @heggledepeg.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

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 · 05/06/2025

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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Crawford Art Gallery @crawfordartgallery.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

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 · 31/05/2025

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 · 30/05/2025

'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.

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Matt Ryan @heggledepeg.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

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 · 24/05/2025

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

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Joost Depuydt @joostdepuydt.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

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 · 17/05/2025

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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Matt Ryan @heggledepeg.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

It certainly feels like there was/is a real community connected to the prison. I'm looking forward to digging further into it!

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Matt Ryan @heggledepeg.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Thanks for reaching out Nicholas - your father-in-law's stories sound fascinating! Do pop over if you can. 👍

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Matt Ryan @heggledepeg.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

On 30th May, we open an exhibition on the site of the old prison on Spike Island, off the coast of West Cork. It runs for the summer. If you're around, come and take a look! [2/2]

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Matt Ryan @heggledepeg.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

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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Mathew Lyons @mathewlyons.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

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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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

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Greg Jenner (Historian) @gregjenner.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

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...

The cover art of Between Two Rivers is designed with navy blue text on winding, bronze background in the shape of meandering rivers. The cover is also decorated at by curled calligraphic patterns

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Matt Ryan @heggledepeg.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Lovely to connect with you too, Mary. Your research sounds intriguing!

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

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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Dr Vanessa @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

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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Crawford Art Gallery @crawfordartgallery.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

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!

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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Let's enjoy a look into book shops of the past. This is a 🧵 especially for #skystorians of #earlymodern Europe, and for #bookhistory, #booksky and #paperhistory nerds 🗃️ Expect, among other bookish stuff, lots of #backwardsbooks, and boxes with paper sheets, and a few sleeping dogs. 1/

A detail from an image of a book shop from Johann Amos Comenius: "Orbis sensualium pictus", pinted in 1658 in Nuremberg. You see a room full of boxes and backwardsbooks and a (tiny) bookseller reading behind a desk waiting for customers.

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Jenny Richards @jennyrichards.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

How timely is this.

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Matt Ryan @heggledepeg.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Natasha's article is a wonder. Really brilliant scholarship. Do have a read! **Also, while you're browsing through the latest edition of 'English', you might also spy my article on the bonkers world of the 16thc print trade ('Thinking Through Community'). Give it a go!**

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Will Rossiter @satyrane.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

1/4 I’m delighted to announce the publication of the latest issue of @englishjournaloup.bsky.social, expertly edited by Archie Cornish, Cathy Shrank & Kate De Rycker. It’s of urgent importance: a transhistorical study of Precarity, both academic & beyond. There are profoundly powerful contributions…

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John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

I'm out here reinventing the Renaissance model of the peripatetic scholar for the modern day (the café I was working in closed early so I've brought my laptop for a non-alcoholic lager while I wait to pick up the kids).

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Caitlin Moran @mscaitlinmoran.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Watched "Adolescence"? Become terrified? Want a book that opens with angry boys saying "Feminism has gone too far," then covers porn, Andrew Tate, how to talk to your son about toxic heroes, and how to find better role-models? Then you want "What About Men?" www.penguin.co.uk/authors/1837...

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Caitlin Moran

Can men be feminists? Caitlin Moran joins us to answer our big questions on middle age, social media, Gen Z and more.

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Crawford Art Gallery @crawfordartgallery.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Evie Hone died #onthisday in 1955. To mark her 70th anniversary, we're sharing a small stained-glass work by the Irish artist depicting St Hubert of Liège in an encounter with a stag, which led to his pursuit of a holy life. It was bequeathed to us in 1958 by Hone's sister, Nancy Connell.

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Bríd McGrath @bridmcgrath.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Thanks for all the lovely feedback on the publication of our #CorkLetterBook! So many thanks to my fellow editors Dave Edwards & the late Aidan Clarke and to David Heffernan for his invaluable help.

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Matt Ryan @heggledepeg.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Hahaha. I did, but as they say: what's a few extra thanks between Bluesky contacts?

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