{"id":12933,"date":"2020-06-26T09:58:43","date_gmt":"2020-06-26T08:58:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/?p=12933"},"modified":"2020-06-26T09:58:43","modified_gmt":"2020-06-26T08:58:43","slug":"simon-elliott-festival-archaeology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2020\/06\/26\/simon-elliott-festival-archaeology\/","title":{"rendered":"Alumnus Simon Elliott takes part in national Festival of Archaeology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Classical &amp; Archaeological Studies alumnus Dr Simon Elliott is a trustee for the Council for British Archaeology, and will be contributing an online talk to their <a href=\"https:\/\/festival.archaeologyuk.org\/\">Festival of Archaeology<\/a> on the campaigns of Septimius Severus.<\/p>\n<p>In this <a href=\"https:\/\/festival.archaeologyuk.org\/events\/campaigns-septimius-severus-far-north-britain-1590765840\">online lecture<\/a>, Simon, one of the world&#8217;s leading experts on the Severan campaigns in modern Scotland, details all aspects of the many invasions of Septimius Severus, including a brief biography of the emperor himself and his family, and analysis of the Roman military at the beginning of the 3rd century AD.<\/p>\n<p>Simon was awarded his PhD from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/european-culture-languages\/classics-archaeology\">Department of Classical and Archaeological Studies<\/a> in 2017, during which he studied the military presence in Britain during the Roman occupation (with a particular focus on the Classis Britannica regional fleet).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Classical &amp; Archaeological Studies alumnus Dr Simon Elliott is a trustee for the Council for British Archaeology, and will be contributing an online talk to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2020\/06\/26\/simon-elliott-festival-archaeology\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52167,"featured_media":12706,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[807,18564,124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12933"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52167"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12933"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12942,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12933\/revisions\/12942"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}