Frances Henderson

Frances Henderson is an Australian writer, artist, teacher, and historian who was born in San Francisco, US, and lives on the Central Coast of NSW, Australia. Frances travelled extensively throughout Asia and Europe, teaching and exhibiting her art, before devoting the latter part of her career to senior school education. Frances recently retired from a 25-year teaching career, where she specialised in Visual Arts and History. 

Her first book, The Seduction of Metal, comprises 16 chapters—a story that’s been seven years in the making. Frances carried out research in Australia, England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland, guided by writers and archaeologists including Muiris O’Sullivan who excavated the Hill of Tara.

Throughout these astonishing chapters, Frances pieces together important new discoveries in archaeology, anthropology, climatology, linguistics, and epidemiology that recasts how we view humanity’s defining histories.