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Matthew Green

1 year

Very excited to be heading off on my UK paperback (wriiiiter) tour soon 😎 New dates added for Liverpool, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Newcastle and more 💥 kicking off Fri 31 March. Would love to see you there! Paperback is out on 6 April and you can preorder now:

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Matthew Green

@drmatthewgreen

4 years

Wonderful to meet and share some screen time with superstar Prof Alice Roberts for a new C4 series on Britain’s most historic cities, looking at how Restoration London resurged from the ashes of its ruin. Filming got delayed by 5 months 🦠 but now back on track! @theAliceRoberts

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Matthew Green

@drmatthewgreen

2 years

Just awoke to discover that I am Book of the Day in the @guardian . What a feeling!

Shadowlands by Matthew Green review – Britain’s ghost places

Sunken off Suffolk, buried on the Welsh borders, uncovered in an Orcadian sandstorm … an eloquent tour of lost communities

www.theguardian.com

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Matthew Green

@drmatthewgreen

3 years

@theAliceRoberts Solidarity! 👊

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Matthew Green

@drmatthewgreen

2 years

I'm very excited (indeed) to say that I've made the shortlist for the Wainwright Prize for nature writing! It's a huge honour to be sandwiched between such great shortlisted books too. Thank you! @FaberBooks @AitkenAlexander @LauraHassanLDN @ChrisWellbelove #JCWP22 @jamescropper

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Matthew Green

@drmatthewgreen

3 years

What an absolutely cracking London-themed episode of Walking Tudor England tonight! Ever has London been the city of jagged juxtaposition. An honour to be involved in @sixteenthCgirl 's show. You can watch now on 5 Select and 5 Player; here are some stills of everyone in full flow

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Matthew Green

@drmatthewgreen

3 years

So much fun to be reunited with @sixteenthCgirl today in, of all places, a pub. Work can be so tough sometimes (disclaimer: the pints were technically props for a new documentary on Tudor England; delicious, life-affirming props.)

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Matthew Green

@drmatthewgreen

4 years

Woah! Archaeologists believe they have found the timbered remains of the Red Lion playhouse, built around 1567 (so predating the Globe), in Whitechapel, east of the hospital. There are 2 refs to it (1567 & 1569) but hailed as Britain’s earliest surviving purpose-built playhouse.

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Matthew Green

@drmatthewgreen

3 years

On Sunday I found a baby squirrel in my garden, barely breathing and unable to move. No vets would take him and everyone told me to "let nature run its course”, but I couldn’t. Instead I got him an Uber to the Squirrel Rehabilitation Centre in Brockley. He lives!

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Matthew Green

@drmatthewgreen

4 years

here is a baby platypus 🥰

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Matthew Green

@drmatthewgreen

5 years

Stumbled across this gorgeous 15th-century - & in all likelihood pre-Tudor - house in Walthamstow the other day. It's timber-framed with stucco infill & was once used as a bike shop. Not many medieval buildings left in London, so a real treat! Known locally as "the ancient house"

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Matthew Green

@drmatthewgreen

8 months

Delighted, excited and honoured to have made the @Waterstones Best Paperbacks of 2023 hotlist! 💚💚💚

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Matthew Green

@drmatthewgreen

3 years

must be something of a bittersweet victory for the tories, the amazingly fast rollout of the c-19 vaccines, since it shows how when left to its own devices, without any profiteering private sector connivance, without any Didoes, the state delivers, delivers well & delivers fast👊

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Matthew Green

@drmatthewgreen

6 years

Today in the Norfolk Records Office I was forbidden from consulting a press scrapbook from the 1940s because it contained highly sensitive information about the nocturnal habits of hibernating bats. All the other military secrets were declassified. But not the bats. 🦇😲🦇

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Matthew Green

@drmatthewgreen

8 years

I have a piece in the @Guardian today on London's best buildings destroyed in - and after - the Fire #GreatFire350

Lost in the Great Fire: which London buildings disappeared in the 1666 blaze?

This week 350 years ago, the Great Fire of London burned through 400 of the city’s streets. Matthew Green reveals the extraordinary structures lost in the blaze – from old St Paul’s to a riverside...

www.theguardian.com

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Matthew Green

@drmatthewgreen

7 years

ridiculously excited to see a REAL PERSON reading my book on the Tube mere inches from the author's nose. #london #drmatthewgreen

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Matthew Green

@drmatthewgreen

1 year

Presenting a 5-part film, 'The City in the Shadow of Oblivion'. In part 1, the medieval port of Old Winchelsea is clawed into the sea by one of the most horrific storms of the entire Middle Ages. Contains graphic imagery! Serialised all week; do share!

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Matthew Green

@drmatthewgreen

2 years

On Bonfire Night, discover how 7 drinks — mead, wine, ale, chocolate, coffee, tea and gin — made London on this historic tour, ending by the riverside to watch the fireworks. With servings of all 7 drinks! Buy half-price before 7pm w promo code: Autumn2022

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Matthew Green

@drmatthewgreen

1 year

A friend just texted from the US to say there's a double-page review of 'Shadowlands' in THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS! I'm beyond delighted to have appeared in those celebrated pages and, as you can see in these not-remotely-posed pics, I immediately broke dry Jan in joy @nybooks

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Matthew Green

@drmatthewgreen

4 years

Am on TV tonight! Talking to the wonderful @theAliceRoberts about the caffeinated novelties of Restoration London in a completely deserted City. Britain’s Historic Cities: 8pm on Channel 4. Here’s a teaser 👇👇

Prof Alice Roberts💙

@theAliceRoberts

4 years

Chatting with @drmatthewgreen about the drug-fuelled explosion of ideas in Restoration London - more tonight 8pm @Channel4

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Matthew Green

@drmatthewgreen

2 years

🧵 It’s 8pm. I am in a pub in a recherché corner of King’s Cross. Night has spread its raven’s cloak. That liquid celebrated in #3 is in my hand. It can only be #Shadowhour . Tonight I’d like to tell you about my trip to Dunwich, which I revisited yesterday, after a 2-year absence

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Matthew Green

@drmatthewgreen

1 year

Back in London, on a brief respite from the tour, and THRILLED to see that Shadowlands has crashed into the Times Top 10 bestseller list for paperback non-fiction (next to Kate Bush, as ever). Has been so much fun running up this hill ;) Thank you to everyone for the support!

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Matthew Green

@drmatthewgreen

4 years

My mum wrote a letter to the Times and they published it (yesterday! as the lead letter!) and I agree with every word of it. 👏👏

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Matthew Green

@drmatthewgreen

2 years

I’m very excited to have made number 7 on The Times’s bestsellers lists for hardback non-fiction, which is based on Waterstones sales. Thank you for everyone’s support! Here I am, on a bench in Highbury, looking rather pleased with myself, moments after receiving the news ☺️

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Matthew Green

@drmatthewgreen

7 years

According to Gaelic legend, if you fall asleep next to a black mountain pool you'll wake up mad, blind or a poet. I didn't try it.

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Matthew Green

@drmatthewgreen

2 years

Gorgeous pics of polar bears living in an abandoned Arctic weather station by Dmitry Kokh, from a sublime photo-essay in the Guardian

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Matthew Green

@drmatthewgreen

4 years

Feeling a bit queasy rn, nothing to do with the Plague. At 4pm today, my editors at Faber in London & WW Norton in NYC are ringing up to give me their full & frank verdict on the book I've spent the last 3 years writing. Lit. no idea what they're going to say...will report back!

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Matthew Green

@drmatthewgreen

8 years

~ love London? ~ try my time traveller's guide ~ @Londonist bk o' month ~ now £12.99>£3.99:

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Matthew Green

@drmatthewgreen

2 years

🧵 (1) Welcome to #Shadowhour . This week I'd like to ask you how a drink you may currently be abstaining from - once called 'the exterminator of the world's sorrows' - contributed to a medieval city gate being stranded in the green fields of Sussex? It's quite a tale...

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Matthew Green

@drmatthewgreen

7 years

today I visited the sea-mountains of St Kilda, the remotest part of the UK, once home to an ancient community of bird people, deserted 1930.

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Matthew Green

@drmatthewgreen

3 years

Am very exciting to be appearing in this episode of Walking Tudor England, written & presented by @sixteenthCgirl , with whom I also got to enjoy a chill ale in a pub while restrictions were still in place as we were technically working! 9pm, TONIGHT, 5select & thereafter 5Player

Suzannah Lipscomb

@sixteenthCgirl

3 years

Tonight on #WalkingTudorEngland , I'm exploring the glittering image and grimy underbelly of Tudor London with Dr Charlotte Bolland of @NPGLondon , @drmatthewgreen , @DuncanSalkeld , @andykesson and Dr Alden Gregory of @HRP_palaces . 9pm on Five Select for UK audiences.

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Matthew Green

@drmatthewgreen

7 years

Today I went in search of a deserted medieval village in #Yorkshire . After a 7-mile hike w/ the world's worst umbrella I finally found it...

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Matthew Green

@drmatthewgreen

7 years

exciting moment today when, at lunch, I went to the same Italian café in King's Cross I've been going to practically every day for 5 years, never once chatting to the owner, who always seemed uninterested, until, today, he says: "I saw you on TV last night. This one's on me." :)

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Matthew Green

@drmatthewgreen

2 years

It lives! My baby! The hardback of SHADOWLANDS, fresh from the printers. It has a rather startling kryptonite beauty in the flesh don’t you agree? It’s released into the world on 17 March so get your preorders in!

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Matthew Green

@drmatthewgreen

7 years

Disappointed that @guardian writes pieces criticising big employers for not paying bills on time - yours to me is now almost 60 days overdue

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Matthew Green

@drmatthewgreen

6 years

Very excited to stumble across this, which I was not expecting, in today's Guardian. Nearly spilt my coffee.

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Matthew Green

@drmatthewgreen

2 years

I never thought the day would come when I’d be longlisted for a literary prize but that day has come! Today! Thrilled to be on the @wainwrightprize for the best #nature writing, and honoured to be amongst such esteemed company. Shortlist coming in July! 🤞🏼

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Matthew Green

@drmatthewgreen

4 years

I present you with a Friday night treat: an atlas of all 4,147 (mainly) Iron Age hill forts in Britain. Striking and lonely, go to your nearest one & feast on the panoramic views, imagining ancient Britain on the eve of Roman dominion. Thanks @UniofOxford

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Matthew Green

@drmatthewgreen

3 years

This is how to respond to people who ask you to write for free, trying to profit from your work under the guise of doing you a favour...

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Matthew Green

@drmatthewgreen

6 years

Just read that in London, around 1180 — 1220, the lost art of timber-framing was rediscovered, allowing for the erection of multi-storey buildings, which themselves facilitated a dramatic rise in population density. By late c13th, Cheapside had townhouses with 3 storeys & garret.

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Matthew Green

@drmatthewgreen

8 years

Delighted that #zacgoldsmith has LOST after a despicable & desperate campaign insinuating #SadiqKhan was some kind of terrorist sympathiser

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Matthew Green

@drmatthewgreen

6 years

Really fun morning filming a BBC2 documentary with the amazing historian & TV presenter Ruth Goodman. Here we are in St Michael's Churchyard and Change Alley in the City. It's out in June.

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Matthew Green

@drmatthewgreen

4 years

update: the news was very, very good 😛🥰

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Matthew Green

@drmatthewgreen

6 years

fun morning filming with @dgjones for a Channel 5 documentary on the history of London. Today’s segment was on the emergence of Fleet Street as a gossip-clogged artery connecting wealth & power. Includes an unforgettable anecdote about a rhinoceros. Coming to your screens soon.

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Matthew Green

@drmatthewgreen

2 years

Well, folks, I didn’t win. But better writers than me did. And as I say on the final page of my book “we are defined by our losses as much as by our successes.” Lots of love and thank you to @wainwrightprize

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Matthew Green

@drmatthewgreen

2 years

A sensational BOOK LAUNCH last night @Dauntbooks Marylebone. Thank you to everyone who made it so special, and to @FaberBooks . SHADOWLANDS is out TOMORROW! Am bursting with excitement…

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Matthew Green

@drmatthewgreen

4 years

what an amazing feeling to wake up and know that in less than 12 hours’ time you will be watching Nick Cave live. Last time this happened I ended up dancing with him on stage at the O2. Proof attached (I’m in the I 💜Take That t-shirt). Sadly tonight is an online gig but still 🙃

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Matthew Green

@drmatthewgreen

4 years

we exist! we are not sugarcoated gays! 👊✨ #beautifullybisexual

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Matthew Green

@drmatthewgreen

2 years

If the @guardian review has whetted your appetite, the @BBCRadio4 show Ramblings, in which I take @clarebalding on a walk through the two lost cities, is broadcast in FIVE minutes! It's pick of the day in Telegraph, Mail, iPaper, Express & Mirror. Enjoy!

BBC Radio 4 - Ramblings, Old and New Winchelsea with historian Dr Matthew Green

Young 'walking' historian Dr Matthew Green shows Clare a lost city on the Sussex coast

www.bbc.co.uk

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Matthew Green

@drmatthewgreen

7 years

Never thought I'd say anything positive about Starbucks but kudos for them for offering 10,000 Syrian refugees jobs in the US.

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Matthew Green

@drmatthewgreen

3 years

So so nice to make my return to the @TheLondonLib today after a haunting year-long absence. It’s as transportive as ever — miles and miles of BOOKS — and I can’t wait to see my new book Shadowlands on the display of members’ latest oeuvres 👇😍✨☺️

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Matthew Green

@drmatthewgreen

3 years

didn’t see the point of getting a new Christmas tree so just reused last year’s which had been languishing in my garden all this time — and what better totem for this dark and barren year? And what a beautiful shade of rust. Think of it as a dystopia tree😌 Happy Christmas!🌲🦠💥

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Matthew Green

@drmatthewgreen

4 years

This is the first BBC News report about a strange and potentially lethal new virus emerging in China — exactly nine months ago today. At the time, the authorities reassured the world it was ‘contained’ and ‘under control’. Chilling.

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Matthew Green

@drmatthewgreen

2 years

I had a magnificent time at the grand unveiling ceremony for the @wainwrightprize nature shortlist @Foyles last night. Inspiring speeches, relentlessly flashing cameras, and an amazing chance to meet the judges and authors. I can't wait to see who is going to win this thing!

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Matthew Green

@drmatthewgreen

7 years

Yesterday I visited this Welsh lake. Under it is the drowned village of Capel Celyn sacrificed in 1960s for a new Liverpool reservoir. Eerie

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Matthew Green

@drmatthewgreen

7 years

Found! The most boring book in the world at my parent's house in #Amersham

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Matthew Green

@drmatthewgreen

1 year

Coffee, in the 18th century, was called "ninny broth" because some worried it would 'ninnify' men — or rather, imbibe them with 'female' qualities, turning them into garrulous babble-heads incapable of sober reason. Find out why this Saturday at 2.30pm!

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Matthew Green

@drmatthewgreen

2 years

I’m tremendously excited to say that the US edition of SHADOWLANDS, beautifully published by @wwnorton , hits American bookshops today from Manhattan to the Hollywood Hills. American followers: please send pictures of it out in the wild!

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Matthew Green

@drmatthewgreen

8 years

I've written a piece on Soho's lost coffee bars in today's Telegraph. Enjoy!

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Matthew Green

@drmatthewgreen

2 years

Missed A NEW ENGLAND, our 'eerily prescient' opera about Alfred and Asser? Never fear: we've a watch party at 7pm on Wed. 21 Sept, where you can see the film of the performance & a panel discussion with me, composer @willgardner00 , the leads & conductor

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Matthew Green

@drmatthewgreen

8 years

an amazing, retrospectively coloured photo of Tower Bridge under construction in the 1880s. via @ianvisits

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Matthew Green

@drmatthewgreen

2 years

Working on a piece on historic maps of London and just discovered a charming little detail: in the months prior to publication of his groundbreaking map in 1746, John Roque invited the public to his shop on Hyde Park Road to pore over the original drawing and suggest corrections!

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Matthew Green

@drmatthewgreen

3 years

London looked so beautiful yesterday afternoon. All damp silver light and horror.

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Matthew Green

@drmatthewgreen

3 years

at least I have a cat for lockdown this time around. He’s called Buster and isn’t particularly impressed by the world

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Matthew Green

@drmatthewgreen

3 years

Very excited to say that the first proofs of my new book have arrived! And they look just as beautiful as I could have hoped for. Cover reveal to follow in time...

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Matthew Green

@drmatthewgreen

6 years

Today, in the powerful morning light, I visited the Neolithic village of Skara Brae in Orkney. A lost world of stone and bone it was abandoned around 5,000 years ago & later buried in sand until, following a gale in 1850, it reappeared. At 1st 👀 it looks like a crazy golf course

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Matthew Green

@drmatthewgreen

2 years

Still can't quite believe this is happening, and so imminently...

Faber Books

@FaberBooks

2 years

In March we are excited to be publishing Shadowlands by @drmatthewgreen , on the forgotten history of Britain's lost cities, ghost towns and vanished villages, from Dunwich to Skara Brae

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Matthew Green

@drmatthewgreen

2 years

Very excited to say it's publication day! You may go out, into the streets, and return with a copy of SHADOWLANDS. Here are some beautiful window displays about London: at Foyles, Charing Cross Road, and Daunt, Marylebone.

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Matthew Green

@drmatthewgreen

4 years

Off to do some filming for a Channel 4 show, I hope they like my shirt! 🥰

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Matthew Green

@drmatthewgreen

4 years

what fresh hell is this? 👇👇

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Matthew Green

@drmatthewgreen

1 year

Just laid eyes on the paperback of Shadowlands and it’s a wonderful thing 🥰 Out 6 April but you can pre-order now (link in bio). And why not celebrate with my @guardianclasses “An immersive journey through the forgotten history of Britain” at 6.30pm today?

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Matthew Green

@drmatthewgreen

6 years

on my way to host a suffragette salon right at the very top of the Monument, where there was a suffragette protest in 1913. It is going to be so cold. Helen Pankhurst is our special guest star. Will post pictures!

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Matthew Green

@drmatthewgreen

3 years

So very excited to be able to run tours again! Why not ease yourself out of lockdown on our wine-tasting tour of medieval London, on 24th April? Explore lost vineyards, plague pits, palaces & ports with coconut shells of delicious, frothing medieval wine

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Matthew Green

@drmatthewgreen

2 years

Very excited to see a wonderful review of my book, SHADOWLANDS, in today’s @thesundaytimes by @j_mcconnachie in which he is generous enough to say “This is a beautifully written, intelligent book, and it is offered as a warning as well as a memorial.’

Shadowlands by Matthew Green review — a tour around Britain’s ghost towns

Matthew Green’s first book was a history of London presented as a kind of all-sensory travel tour. This follow-up is equally immersive but darker and more lyric

www.thetimes.com

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Matthew Green

@drmatthewgreen

9 years

I've written a piece in the Financial Times on how five drinks forged London: coffee, tea, hot chocolate, gin & ale

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Matthew Green

@drmatthewgreen

2 years

Shadowlands is apparently now the third bestselling book at the biblio-emporium of wonder that is Foyles Charing Cross, as this picture attests 😍

Foyles Bookshop

@Foyles

2 years

Ten recommendations in one photo—the Top Ten at Charing Cross Road: #KazuoIshiguro @falsaliebre #SophieHughes @drmatthewgreen @Jbrekkie @kawaguchicoffee @GeoffTrousselot @crystaljeans1 #KayDick @JuliaArmfield #BesselVanDerKolk #DamonGalgut

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Matthew Green

@drmatthewgreen

6 years

I'm on @BBCRadio4 at 3.30pm today, talking about the gambling epidemic of the 18th century which tore through all levels of society like a Tasmanian devil. The show is #makinghistory , looking at the history behind the headlines, presented by @holland_tom

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Matthew Green

@drmatthewgreen

1 year

Delighted to have a cute little table with @DrJaninaRamirez @Dauntbooks Cheapside! Two suppressed histories side by side…

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Matthew Green

@drmatthewgreen

2 years

a freshly-discovered pic of my mother, looking extremely chic in 1968

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Matthew Green

@drmatthewgreen

1 year

Very excited to have contributed this essay on the lost city of Dunwich @PublicDomainRev — which is one of the best things on the internet (Public Domain Review, that is, not my essay, although…😁) It contains some exquisitely haunting images I’d never seen before. Enjoy!

The Public Domain Review

@PublicDomainRev

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NEW ESSAY — “The City That Fell Off a Cliff”, in which @drmatthewgreen revisits Dunwich, a city taken by the sea through centuries of erosion — a once lively port transfigured into a symbol of loss...

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Matthew Green

@drmatthewgreen

7 years

with some friends at the most north-westerly tip of Great Britain, being photobombed by a GOAT 🐐 #ardnamurchan #highlands

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Matthew Green

@drmatthewgreen

8 months

Excited to announce our first new live tour in 2 years: an immersive night walk through Smithfield and Clerkenwell exploring how, over 2,000 years, London went from darkness into light, with operatic performances in moonlit churchyards, and piping-hot wine

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Matthew Green

@drmatthewgreen

2 years

I am about to see NICK CAVE LIVE! Beyond excited

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Matthew Green

@drmatthewgreen

1 year

It is PAPERBACK PUBLICATION DAY! To celebrate, I distilled the essence of the entire book into an extended @TelegraphTravel piece. Enjoy! And do consider ordering a copy — it’s the perfect time of year to explore the shadowlands of Britain.

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Matthew Green

@drmatthewgreen

2 years

(2) In case you're new to my feed: I've spent the last 4 years exploring the lost cities, ghost towns and vanished villages of Britain, following an itinerary of destruction to some of the remotest parts of the country, and, on 17 March, the book is finally published @FaberBooks

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Matthew Green

@drmatthewgreen

2 years

Chuffed to have made @Waterstones Best Books of 2022 list! And honoured to keep such great company as @DrJaninaRamirez @simonmontefiore @samknightwrites @theAliceRoberts @EdwardShawcross @BenMacintyre1 Ian Kershaw and many others. Christmas presents?

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Matthew Green

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2 years

Had one hell of a beautiful Sunday in Ilkley, Yorkshire, following my talk the night before. Thank you @ilkleylitfest and I hope the rest of the festival goes really well! (and there’s nothing better than a moor-top pub @cowncalfilkley )

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Matthew Green

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9 years

I have an article in the Guardian today. On ten of the best unusual historical sites in London. Have a read! http://t.co/YOOPJT10j8

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Matthew Green

@drmatthewgreen

4 years

I can’t disagree with this! Might make some nice autumnal reading; thank you @theAliceRoberts 👇✨

Prof Alice Roberts💙

@theAliceRoberts

4 years

Watching #HistoricTowns ? @drmatthewgreen does a wonderful time traveller's guide to London:

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Matthew Green

@drmatthewgreen

6 years

feel like I spend my life listening to other people’s meetings in cafés. Think 90% are an utter waste of time, excuse for latte & self-aggrandizement. Today: ‘demonstrable value’, ‘revenue streamline’, ‘paradigm vision’, ‘tools’ + ‘[failure of awful idea] = marketing’s fault’😱

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Matthew Green

@drmatthewgreen

8 years

I'm off on a year-long road trip to some of the most remote and inhospitable parts of Britain and Ireland. Will keep you updated here! (3/3)

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Matthew Green

@drmatthewgreen

5 years

Drink medieval rosé from a coconut shell in a City vineyard, guzzle baroque hot chocolate in Dr Johnson's house, drown yourself in Mother's Ruin, do shots of Muhammedan gruel in the City's twisting tagliatelle of streets & go to a 350-yr old alehouse.

The history of London in five drinks | Dr Matthew Green

Explore London on foot and learn how coffee, wine, hot chocolate, ale and gin transformed the city at various points in history – drinks included, of course

www.theguardian.com

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Matthew Green

@drmatthewgreen

2 years

Honoured that both my favourite indie bookshops in London, @KirkdaleBooks south of the river and @burleyfisher north, have made SHADOWLANDS one of their Books of The Year 2022! Many signed copies as a result! They're really the coolest bookshops; 🙏 so much to the booksellers

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Matthew Green

@drmatthewgreen

2 years

Very excited to be en route to a book club in Bloomsbury where this week they are discussing… my book!🤪 Am honoured to have been asked and will recline by the fireplace red wine in hand purring like a cat that is having its chin stroked. Will report back

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Matthew Green

@drmatthewgreen

2 years

This animated map shows the key lost cities, ghost towns and vanished villages that feature in my new book, Shadowlands. Enjoy the haunting music!

Faber Books

@FaberBooks

2 years

Visit the lost places of Britain with @drmatthewgreen in Shadowlands, out 17 March

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Matthew Green

@drmatthewgreen

10 months

It was a real honour to chat @k8_lister about Victorian porn for her heady @HistoryHit podcast #BetwixtTheSheets , including the forgotten story of ‘the vilest street in the civilised world’, Victorian London’s best-kept dirty secret which I first wrote about @PublicDomainRev 😏

Kate Lister

@k8_lister

10 months

Today on #BetwixtTheSheets I am talking to the deliciously dirty @drmatthewgreen about where the Victorians would buy their porn. Enjoy!

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Matthew Green

@drmatthewgreen

3 years

Thrilled to receive a wonderful endorsement for my new book, 'Shadowlands', from Prof Suzannah Lipscomb @sixteenthCgirl , who has described it as "an exquisitely written, moving, and elegiac exploration of the dead ends and lost causes of history - a book to savour and cherish."☺️

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Matthew Green

@drmatthewgreen

7 years

Amazing to talk @theRSAorg last night about their project of reinventing an Enlightenment coffeehouse for the c21 to bring people together

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Matthew Green

@drmatthewgreen

7 years

"London is a city of ghettoes behind a thin veneer of civility kept polished by a Muslim mayor" - no it's not, Katie Hopkins. Eurgh.

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Matthew Green

@drmatthewgreen

2 years

I am absolutely thrilled to have surfaced in the pages of my favourite magazine on the planet: the @NewYorker ! It's a lovely pithy review. What an incredible start to the month! @wwnorton @FaberBooks @MattWeiland @LauraHassanLDN @ChrisWellbelove

Briefly Noted

Short reviews of recent releases.

www.newyorker.com

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Matthew Green

@drmatthewgreen

6 years

Very much looking forward to hosting an espresso Martini coffeehouse no less at the @royalacademy Late Show tomorrow night in which they reimagine an 18th-century style pleasure garden for the modern age. Have a feeling I'm going to be pretty buzzing by the end of it.

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