{"id":3608,"date":"2015-01-16T11:43:52","date_gmt":"2015-01-16T11:43:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/?p=3608"},"modified":"2019-03-18T10:58:54","modified_gmt":"2019-03-18T10:58:54","slug":"a-chance-to-experience-roman-shopping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2015\/01\/16\/a-chance-to-experience-roman-shopping\/","title":{"rendered":"A chance to experience Roman shopping"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As part of the University of Kent\u2019s \u2018Visualisation of the Late Antique City\u2019 project, funded by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.leverhulme.ac.uk\/\">Leverhulme Trust<\/a>, PhD student Joe Williams will be giving a lecture entitled\u00a0&#8216;Roman Shops and Shopping&#8217; at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canterbury.co.uk\/Beaney\/\">The Beaney House of Art and Knowledge<\/a> on Thursday 22 January, 18.00-19.00. The lecture will explore retail in the Roman city, including lesser-known trades, such as chandlery, perfume making and fast-food.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.canterbury.co.uk\/museums\/thedms.aspx?dms=72&amp;shop=23&amp;prod=8482\">Tickets are available<\/a> and cost \u00a36, or \u00a34 for members of The Beaney.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally Joe, together with fellow PhD student Faith Morgan and \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/classics\/staff\/lavan.html\">Dr Luke Lavan<\/a> from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/classics\/index.html\">Department of Classical &amp;\u00a0Archaeological Studies<\/a>, will\u00a0also be taking part in a &#8216;Hands-on Heritage&#8217; event about Roman shopping at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canterbury.co.uk\/museums\/roman-museum\/\">Canterbury Roman Museum<\/a> on Saturday 24 January, 13.00-14.00.<\/p>\n<p>This fun re-enactment day will give families the opportunity to meet a Roman fruit\u00a0seller, spice-merchant, basket-maker and a repairer of worn out clothes as they experience the hustle and bustle of the Roman marketplace.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.canterbury.co.uk\/museums\/thedms.aspx?dms=72&amp;shop=23&amp;prod=3826\">Tickets are available<\/a> and cost \u00a38 for adults, \u00a36 concessions with\u00a0\u00a31.50 for additional children, and are available here:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of the University of Kent\u2019s \u2018Visualisation of the Late Antique City\u2019 project, funded by the Leverhulme Trust, PhD student Joe Williams will be &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2015\/01\/16\/a-chance-to-experience-roman-shopping\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5829,"featured_media":3190,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18564,124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3608"}],"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\/5829"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3608"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10115,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3608\/revisions\/10115"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}