{"id":8338,"date":"2018-02-26T09:25:06","date_gmt":"2018-02-26T09:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/?p=8338"},"modified":"2019-04-10T11:15:34","modified_gmt":"2019-04-10T10:15:34","slug":"writing-history-employabilty-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2018\/02\/26\/writing-history-employabilty-event\/","title":{"rendered":"Alumni and author panel – Writing History and Getting Published"},"content":{"rendered":"

As part of the Humanities for Hire employability events, the School of European Culture and Languages<\/a>\u00a0(SECL) is hosting a \u2018Writing History and Getting Published\u2019 event on Thursday 15 March from 5-6pm in the Gulbenkian cinema<\/a>. This special Humanities for Hire event will feature Kent alumni who have gone onto successful publishing careers with a focus on history. The event will consist of a panel with a Q&A session, followed by a drinks reception and opportunity for book signing.<\/p>\n

Amanda J. Thomas\u00a0is an author, linguist and historian with a particular interest in social and medical history. She is an alumni of the University of Kent, graduating with a degree in Italian<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Her books include\u00a0Cholera – The Victorian Plague<\/em><\/a>\u00a0(Pen & Sword History, 2015),\u00a0The Lambeth Cholera Outbreak of 1848-1849: The Setting, Causes, Course and Aftermath of an Epidemic in London<\/a><\/em>\u00a0(McFarland, 2009); she also contributed to Dr Andrew Hann’s\u00a0The Medway Valley: A Kent Landscape Transformed<\/a><\/em>\u00a0(Victoria County History, 2009).<\/p>\n

Her broadcast work includes\u00a0The Flying Archaeologist<\/em>\u00a0(BBC4, 2012),\u00a0Who Do You Think You Are?<\/em>\u00a0(Wall to Wall Media\/BBC1, 2012-13), and\u00a0The One Show<\/em> (BBC, 2016). Amanda is also editor of the historical journal,\u00a0The Clock Tower<\/a><\/em>, for The Friends of Medway Archives and Local Studies Centre, and editorial consultant to\u00a0Harpendia<\/em>\u00a0magazine.<\/p>\n

Her next book will be\u00a0The Non-Conformist Revolution<\/em>\u00a0(Pen & Sword History, forthcoming).<\/p>\n

Dr Simon Elliott\u00a0is an author, historian, archaeologist and Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Kent where he studied for his PhD in Classical & Archaeological Studies <\/a>on the subject of the Roman military in Britain. He is a trustee of the Council for British Archaeology.<\/p>\n

He published his first book,\u00a0Sea Eagles of Empire: The Classis Britannica and the Battles for Britain<\/a><\/em>\u00a0(History Press, 2016) while still studying for his doctorate. The book subsequently won\u00a0Military History Magazine<\/em>‘s\u00a0Book of the Year Award<\/a>. His second book,\u00a0Empire State: How the Roman Military Built an Empire<\/em><\/a> (Oxbow Books, 2017) swiftly followed.<\/p>\n

His latest book\u00a0Septimius Severus in Scotland: The Northern Campaigns of the First Hammer of the Scots<\/em>\u00a0(Greenhill Press, 2018) has only just been published<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The event will be chaired by\u00a0Dr Steve Willis<\/a>,\u00a0Senior Lecturer in Archaeology in the Department of Classical & Archaeological Studies<\/a>.<\/p>\n

For more details, please see the events page:
\nwww.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/events\/index.html?eid=29946<\/a><\/p>\n

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