{"id":7648,"date":"2017-07-12T18:37:13","date_gmt":"2017-07-12T17:37:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/?p=7648"},"modified":"2017-07-12T18:37:13","modified_gmt":"2017-07-12T17:37:13","slug":"simon-elliott-wins-book-of-the-year-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2017\/07\/12\/simon-elliott-wins-book-of-the-year-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Simon Elliott wins book of the year award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are delighted to announce that Dr Simon Elliott, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/classics\/news\/index.html?view=7574\">who recently completed his PhD<\/a> in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/classics\/index.html\">Department of Classical &amp; Archaeological Studies<\/a>, has just been awarded <em>Military History Monthly<\/em>\u2019s Book of the Year, for his work <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehistorypress.co.uk\/publication\/sea-eagles-of-empire\/9780750966023\/\"><em>Sea Eagles of Empire: The Classis Britannica and the Battles for Britain<\/em><\/a><em>\u00a0<\/em>(The History Press, 2016).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.military-history.org\"><em>Military History Monthly<\/em><\/a><em>\u00a0<\/em>is a magazine for anyone fascinated by the history of conflict and brings Britain\u2019s military history to life. 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>explores the history of the Classis Britannica, the Roman Fleet in Britain, and Britain&#8217;s first-ever navy. Simon published the book <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/classics\/news\/index.html?view=6487\">while still studying for his doctorate<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For<em> Military History Monthly<\/em>\u2019s announcement of the award, and a list of the sliver and bronze awards, please see the webpage here:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.military-history.org\/articles\/mhm-book-awards-winners-announced.htm\">www.military-history.org\/articles\/mhm-book-awards-winners-announced.htm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are delighted to announce that Dr Simon Elliott, who recently completed his PhD in the Department of Classical &amp; Archaeological Studies, has just been &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2017\/07\/12\/simon-elliott-wins-book-of-the-year-award\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2458,"featured_media":7649,"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\/7648"}],"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=7648"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7674,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7648\/revisions\/7674"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}