{"id":7004,"date":"2017-02-09T13:58:08","date_gmt":"2017-02-09T13:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/?p=7004"},"modified":"2017-02-09T15:40:29","modified_gmt":"2017-02-09T15:40:29","slug":"simon-elliotts-book-nominated-for-mhm-book-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2017\/02\/09\/simon-elliotts-book-nominated-for-mhm-book-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Simon Elliott\u2019s book nominated for MHM Book of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Sea Eagles of Empire: The Classis Britannica and the Battles for Britain<\/em> (The History Press, 2016) by Simon Elliott, a doctoral\u00a0student in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/classics\/index.html\">Department of Classical &amp; Archaeological Studies<\/a>, has been\u00a0nominated for the <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.military-history.org\/\">Military History Monthly<\/a><\/em>\u00a0Book of the Year award.<\/p>\n<p><em>Military History Monthly<\/em>\u00a0is a magazine for anyone fascinated by the history of conflict and brings Britain\u2019s military history to life. The magazine was launched in 2010.<\/p>\n<p>The magazine&#8217;s Book of the Year Award, which is\u00a0awarded in gold, silver and\u00a0bronze classes,\u00a0goes to the\u00a0title that readers feel have made the greatest all-round contribution to the study of military history.<\/p>\n<p><em>Sea Eagles of Empire<\/em> is one of 12 military history titles shortlisted for this year&#8217;s award and explores the history of the Classis Britannica (the Roman Fleet in Britain, and in fact Britain&#8217;s first ever navy), one of ten regional fleets deployed across the Roman Empire that was active from the middle of the 1st through to the 3rd century AD, and highlights the important role it played both in British waters and in military campaigns across Europe.<\/p>\n<p>Voting is now open and will close on 12 June 2017, with the awards being presented at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.military-history.org\/articles\/the-newark-military-history-conference-2017-tickets-now-on-sale.htm\">Newark Military History Conference 2017<\/a>. The full shortlist and details of how to vote are available at:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.military-history.org\/articles\/mhm-book-awards-2017.htm\">www.military-history.org\/articles\/mhm-book-awards-2017.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For more details of Simon\u2019s book,\u00a0please see the publisher\u2019s page here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehistorypress.co.uk\/publication\/sea-eagles-of-empire\/9780750966023\/\">www.thehistorypress.co.uk\/publication\/sea-eagles-of-empire\/9780750966023\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sea Eagles of Empire: The Classis Britannica and the Battles for Britain (The History Press, 2016) by Simon Elliott, a doctoral\u00a0student in the Department of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2017\/02\/09\/simon-elliotts-book-nominated-for-mhm-book-of-the-year\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5829,"featured_media":7006,"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\/7004"}],"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=7004"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7017,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7004\/revisions\/7017"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}