Matt Ryan

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

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

📸 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

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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! 👇

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

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!

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

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.

YouTube video by Albert Shepard Sir Harrington

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.

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

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.

Love the Marvell Universe.

A Bristolian graffito. #RenSoc25

Likewise: follow Beth!

Hahahahaha, thanks Beth.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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!

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

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!

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

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

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]

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]

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

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...