{"id":8590,"date":"2018-04-13T14:20:20","date_gmt":"2018-04-13T13:20:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/?p=8590"},"modified":"2018-04-13T14:20:20","modified_gmt":"2018-04-13T13:20:20","slug":"simon-elliott-interviewed-by-dan-snow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2018\/04\/13\/simon-elliott-interviewed-by-dan-snow\/","title":{"rendered":"Simon Elliott interviewed by Dan Snow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Simon Elliott, Honorary Research Fellow in the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/classics\/index.html\">Department of Classical &amp; Archaeological Studies<\/a>, featured on the podcast <a href=\"https:\/\/www.acast.com\/dansnowshistoryhit\"><em>Dan Snow\u2019s History Hit\u00a0<\/em><\/a>earlier in the week, following the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/classics\/news\/index.html?view=8421\">publication of his third book<\/a> <em>Septimius Severus in Scotland\u00a0<\/em>(Greenhill Books, 2018).<\/p>\n<p>\u2018The reason why he was there was for the last major attempt to conquer Scotland,\u2019 explains Simon in the podcast, \u2018to try to achieve what no emperor had done before\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Approximately 57,000 soldiers were involved in two campaigns in 209AD and 201AD. \u2018Even though he took this enormous army \u2013 if not the largest army compiled on British soil \u2013 he still failed.\u2019 As a response to these failures, Severus allegedly ordered the genocide of the Scots, which had lasting effects on the country. \u2018This is one of the great, great untold stories of British history.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>To listen to the episode, please go to the webpage here:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.acast.com\/dansnowshistoryhit\/septimiusseverusinscotland-simonelliott\">www.acast.com\/dansnowshistoryhit\/septimiusseverusinscotland-simonelliott<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Additionally, we are running a book competition to win Simon\u2019s first book\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehistorypress.co.uk\/publication\/sea-eagles-of-empire\/9780750966023\/\"><em>Sea Eagles of Empire<\/em><\/a>\u00a0(History Press, 2016), which may be found here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/news\/index.html?view=8520\">www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/news\/index.html?view=8520<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Simon Elliott, Honorary Research Fellow in the\u00a0Department of Classical &amp; Archaeological Studies, featured on the podcast Dan Snow\u2019s History Hit\u00a0earlier in the week, following &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2018\/04\/13\/simon-elliott-interviewed-by-dan-snow\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2458,"featured_media":8593,"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\/8590"}],"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=8590"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8600,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8590\/revisions\/8600"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}