{"id":9864,"date":"2019-02-07T14:11:54","date_gmt":"2019-02-07T14:11:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/?p=9864"},"modified":"2019-02-07T14:11:54","modified_gmt":"2019-02-07T14:11:54","slug":"chalk-valley-history-festival-elliott-talk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2019\/02\/07\/chalk-valley-history-festival-elliott-talk\/","title":{"rendered":"Alumnus Dr Simon Elliott at Chalk Valley History Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Chalk Valley History festival has released a recording of a\u00a0talk presented by alumnus Dr Simon Elliott, Honorary Research Fellow in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/classics\/index.html\">Department of Classical &amp; Archaeological Studies<\/a>, on <a href=\"https:\/\/cvhf.org.uk\/history-hub\/septimius-severus-in-scotland\/\">Septimius Severus in Scotland<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The talk, which Simon describes as &#8220;More &#8216;Game of Thrones&#8217; than\u00a0<em>Game of Thrones,<\/em>\u00a0more &#8216;Tolkien&#8217; than Tolkien, only real&#8221;, received maximum attendance in the main theatre where it took place, and outlines the campaigns of the great Roman warrior Septimius Severus and how he to tried &#8211; and failed &#8211; to conquer Scotland.<\/p>\n<p>Simon completed his PhD in Classical and Archaeological Studies in 2017, with a thesis exploring the military presence in Kent during the Roman occupation, under supervision from<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/classics\/staff\/willis.html\"> Dr Steve Willis<\/a>, Senior Lecturer in Archaeology.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chalk Valley History festival has released a recording of a\u00a0talk presented by alumnus Dr Simon Elliott, Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Classical &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2019\/02\/07\/chalk-valley-history-festival-elliott-talk\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52167,"featured_media":9878,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[807,18564,124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9864"}],"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\/52167"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9864"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9875,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9864\/revisions\/9875"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}