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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
CONGRATULATIONS to the writers who have been selected for the CATEGORY SHORT LISTS in the 2026 HISTORICAL NOVEL SOCIETY’S First Chapters Competition! Visit https://t.co/CBySmX41Wt for the full lists
#historicalfiction #hnsfirstchapterscompetition
Eanflæd, daughter of King Edwin, was the first Northumbrian to be baptised #OTD in 626. Paulinus, bishop of York, administered the sacrament. Eanflæd later wed King Oswiu, championed the Roman dating of Easter and became abbess of Streanæshalch (Whitby) with her daughter Ælfflæd.
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Martin Maloney #EU #FBPE #BLM 3.5% ⚫️ 🌈 🇪🇺 🌹💙
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Dad to 3 beautiful women, grandad to 4 wonderful grandchildren. Former policeman, retired teacher. Dislike passionately: Tories, racists, misogynists, far right
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Guitarist - Cook - Librarian - Dad! Looking to take control...but failing!
This torc is known as The Snettisham Great Torc named for where it was found. Other Iron Age hoards have been found close by. It is made of circa 1 KG gold mixed with silver. It was made c. 150-50 BCE, and buried around 50 BCE.
📷 Mine, British Museum.
#FindsFriday #Archaeology
These frescoes adorn the covered walkway of the Majolica Cloister, in Santa Chiara, Naples. They date to the 17th C. Showing St Francis of Assisi, St Honorius, and above them the virtues Sincerity and Justice respectively. Pic 3-4: roof fresco plus aisle.
My 📷
#FrescoFriday
Part of Roman dedicatory inscription from Hotbank on Hadrian’s Wall.
It translates:
Built by Emperor Caesar Trajan Hadrian Augustus...the Second Legion Augusta under Aulus Platorius Nepos, propraetorian legate.
Nepos was governor of Britannia AD 122-125.
#RomanFortThursday
My 📷
Aerial shot of Vercovicium (Housesteads Roman Fort). The fort’s north wall is contiguous with Hadrian’s Wall. It was planned without auxiliary forts. Wall construction began by AD 122, but changed to include forts. Constructed by AD 130.
#RomanFortThursday #Archaeology
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@KPW1453 The last time I was at Brinkburn Priory I met the peripatetic organist who plays in churches and abbeys throughout the region. He played for us and the other visitors. It was a wonderful experience. Here’s my shot of the entrance to #BrinkburnPriory
@KPW1453 The last time I was at Brinkburn Priory I met the peripatetic organist who plays in churches and abbeys throughout the region. He played for us and the other visitors. It was a wonderful experience. Here’s my shot of the entrance to #BrinkburnPriory
Diplomas are discharge certificates inscribed on bronze issued to auxiliaries after 25 years service, granting citizenship to soldiers & children plus legal marriage.
My 📷 Replica: from Trajan (AD 98-117) to Spanish officer, Reburrus, 1st Pannonian cavalry.
#RomanFortThursday
Aerial shot of Vercovicium (Housesteads Roman Fort). The fort’s north wall is contiguous with Hadrian’s Wall. It was planned without auxiliary forts. Wall construction began by AD 122, but changed to include forts. Constructed by AD 130.
#RomanFortThursday #Archaeology
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@TheRealSnuggler It’s a stunning piece of art.
The marble statue called the Capitoline Galatian is maybe better known as The Dying Gaul. It’s a 1st C BCE Roman copy of a sculpture on a monument of Attalus I, king of Pergamon (230-220 BCE).
Found in an area once known as Caesar’s Garden.
📷 my own.
#Archaeology #Rome
Look what’s landed in my postbox today!
Ireland, mapping, the year is 1865 - and all written by brilliant author, Maggie O’ Farrell.
I can’t wait to curl up to read #Land.
#AmReading #Books
@sally_bromley Happy birthday 🎈
This village pub belongs to my son. He’s put heart and soul into bringing it back to life with a small team. It’s been 4 years of work to stay afloat against the tide of pub closures.
We need pubs like this.
Happy 4th 🎂🎉
Queen's Head, Great Whittington https://t.co/PW8B90v2CU
Currently in The Capitoline Museums, Rome.
Santa Chiara was built 1313–1340 by Queen Sancha of Majorca and her husband King Robert of Naples, who is buried there. The complex was redecorated (17th C) in Baroque style by Domenico Antonio Vaccaro who also added majolica tiles to the cloister.
My 📷, #Naples
#TilesOnTuesday
@BullMittens It really is.
Engagement here is fairly poor
I posted the same post on two platforms at almost exactly the same time this morning:
Photo 1 - the X post
Photo 2 - the BlueSky post
Click to see the different responses.
This X place isn’t showing many people my posts.
@gmortonclassics It’s so gorgeous there. Naples is a manic place, but inside Santa Chiara and the cloisters it’s calmer even with other tourists.
I say book that flight. ✈️
Santa Chiara was built 1313–1340 by Queen Sancha of Majorca and her husband King Robert of Naples, who is buried there. The complex was redecorated (17th C) in Baroque style by Domenico Antonio Vaccaro who also added majolica tiles to the cloister.
My 📷, #Naples
#TilesOnTuesday
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