Kate Sheehan-Finn🇮🇪🇪🇺✍️📖🏛🏺

Thanks so much to the judges who have selected my novel in progress for the Historical Adventure category. #Manumission is set in the years following the global pandemic that ancient historians call the Antonine pandemic. #HNS2026 #AmWriting #HistoricalFiction

There’s a big difference between the howls of outrage expressed on social media and the practical decisions made by people in real life in response to the challenges they face.

The buildings in photos 1 and 3 are on the Palatine Hill and overlook the Circus Maximus (photo 2, and foreground of 1), where the chariot teams raced before thousands of fans in Ancient Rome. #Rome #RomanSiteSaturday #Archaeology 📷 my own, October 2025.

My #Bookstack comes from the secondhand bookshop at Blickling Hall, which is in the care of @nationaltrust #AmReading #AncientRome #Books

Burgh Castle is one of 3 Saxon Shore Roman forts on the Norfolk coast. 9 forts dot the South East Coast. Burgh was a harbour for sea-going ships and a town (vicus) too, as well as military base in the 3rd C AD, and beyond. 📷 my own #RomanFortThursday #Archaeology #RomanBritain

October in Wells-Next-The-Sea is holding onto #summer. 📷 my own. #norfolk

Warham Camp is the best preserved Iron Age Hill Fort in East Anglia. It has double-banked circular defences and lies within a bend in the River Stiffkey. Built more than 2000 years ago by Iceni people, pottery finds date 200 BC- 1st C AD. 📷 my own #HillfortWednesday #Archaeology

Enjoying an autumn break in Norfolk, England. The weather was very kind for an early evening Sunday walk on Brancaster Beach as the tide rolled in. #BeachLife #SundayVibes 📷 my own

When I’m not posting regularly it’s because I’m writing. #writinglife #amwriting #fiction #histfic

Although Augustan in origin, the Piazzale delle Corporazioni in #OstiaAntica was enlarged, the buildings subdivided to house local and foreign shipowner’s and merchant’s collegia or guilds. The black and white mosaics are mid 2nd C AD. My own 📷 #MosaicMonday #Archaeology #Rome

The barn owl was out early last night. This fuzzy shot is my phone from about 40 M away. It could be an omen. The #owl is a symbol for a main character in one of two novels I’ve written. Is this is the one I need to focus on finessing in the second half of 2026? #AmWriting – at Gunnerton, England

This is one of the bronze shields from the Idaean cave, #Crete. It dates from the late 9th/early 8th C to mid 7th C BC, roughly the same era when the oral epics, The #Iliad and #Odyssey, found their more fixed written form. My 📷, Heraklion Archaeological Museum #Archaeology

Once upon a time, Social Media didn’t exist. What would you do without it?

After the rain, it was a beautiful evening. I heard a Sparrow Hawk and took in the sun as it set over the parched fields. Then, back home after my walk, I sat down to write. #AmWriting #WritingLife 📷 my own, #Northumberland