{"id":7546,"date":"2017-09-29T11:46:16","date_gmt":"2017-09-29T10:46:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/?p=7546"},"modified":"2017-09-29T15:12:40","modified_gmt":"2017-09-29T14:12:40","slug":"simon-elliott-to-talk-london-on-the-end-of-the-roman-britain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2017\/09\/29\/simon-elliott-to-talk-london-on-the-end-of-the-roman-britain\/","title":{"rendered":"Simon Elliott to talk in London on the end of the Roman Britain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Simon Elliott, who\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/classics\/postgraduate\/research-classical-archaeological-studies.html\">completed his PhD<\/a> in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/index.html\">Department of Classical &amp; Archaeological Studies<\/a>, will be delivering a talk entitled \u2018Later Roman London and the End of Roman Britain\u2019 at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cityoflondon.gov.uk\/things-to-do\/guildhall-library\/Pages\/default.aspx\">Guildhall Library<\/a> in London on 12 October 2017.<\/p>\n<p>London was the capital city of Britannia. It governed a territory that in the South and the East was a fully functioning part of the Roman Empire, but to the North and West was a militarised border region. This far-flung territory of Rome changed over time, and eventually slipped out of the Imperial control. In this talk, Simon will tell the tale of Roman London from the &#8216;Crisis of the 3rd Century&#8217; until its final demise in the early 5th century.<\/p>\n<p>The event is part of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.visitlondon.com\/romans\/londinium-events\">Londinium<\/a> season, a series of events to tell the city\u2019s Roman story. Tickets cost \u00a35.90, which includes wine reception.<\/p>\n<p>Simon\u2019s PhD project, considered industry in Roman Kent and the role of\u00a0the Roman Military therein,\u00a0was\u00a0entitled \u2018Late Roman Kent\u2019 and supervised by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/classics\/staff\/willis.html\">Dr Steve Willis<\/a>. Last year, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/classics\/news\/index.html?view=6487\">Simon published his first historical book<\/a>, <em>Sea Eagles of Empire: The Classis Britannica and the Battles for Britain\u00a0<\/em>(The History Press, 2016).<\/p>\n<p>To book, please see the webpage: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.co.uk\/e\/later-roman-london-and-the-end-of-roman-britain-tickets-34881742230\">https:\/\/www.eventbrite.co.uk\/e\/later-roman-london-and-the-end-of-roman-britain-tickets-34881742230<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you would like to follow Simon&#8217;s research, please go to his website at <a href=\"http:\/\/simonelliott.net\">SimonElliott.net <\/a>where you can sign up for his newsletter, or follow him on twitter at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SimonElliott20\">@SimonElliott20<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Simon Elliott, who\u00a0completed his PhD in the Department of Classical &amp; Archaeological Studies, will be delivering a talk entitled \u2018Later Roman London and the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2017\/09\/29\/simon-elliott-to-talk-london-on-the-end-of-the-roman-britain\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2458,"featured_media":6562,"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\/7546"}],"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\/2458"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7546"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7933,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7546\/revisions\/7933"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}