{"id":151,"date":"2014-09-25T22:30:41","date_gmt":"2014-09-25T21:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/numoocs\/?p=151"},"modified":"2021-09-15T18:06:05","modified_gmt":"2021-09-15T17:06:05","slug":"why-build-the-wall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/2014\/09\/25\/why-build-the-wall\/","title":{"rendered":"Why build the Wall? A fascinating extra&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_154\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-154\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/Gekx6NtsrSk\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-154\" alt=\"Discussion with eminent experts on why Hadrian's Wall was built.\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/files\/2014\/09\/why_build_the_wall-300x164.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"164\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-154\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Discussion with experts &#8211; a special addition. Click on the picture for a special video.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A special discussion featuring Professor Ian Haynes, Lead Educator <a title=\"There's still time to sign up!\" href=\"www.futurelearn.com\/courses\/hadrians-wall and Professor of Archaeology,\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.futurelearn.com\/courses\/hadrians-wall<\/a> and Professor of Archaeology, Newcastle University, together with leading world experts Professor David Breeze (Visiting Professor, Newcastle University), Dr Sue Stallibrass (English Heritage Regional Science Advisor, NW England) and Dr Nick Hodgson (Principal Keeper of Archaeology: Strategic Project Management, Tyne &amp; Wear Archives and Museums) examining why Hadrian&#8217;s Wall might have been built.<\/p>\n<p>As we draw near the end of week one of Hadrian&#8217;s Wall: Life on the Roman Frontier we thought you might like to delve a little deeper into why the Wall might have been built, with the views of four eminent experts in this <a title=\"Watch it now.\" href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/Gekx6NtsrSk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">fascinating discussion<\/a> to help you reflect a little more on this fascinating topic.<\/p>\n<p>Have their ideas changed your own thoughts at all?<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Why build the wall?\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Gekx6NtsrSk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"[caption id=\"attachment_154\" align=\"alignleft\" width=\"300\"] Discussion with experts &#8211; a special addition. Click on the picture for a special video.[\/caption]\n","protected":false},"author":1446,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[100,108,109,126,197],"class_list":["post-151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-moocs","tag-discussion","tag-experts","tag-extra-content","tag-hadrians-wall-2","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1446"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6547,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151\/revisions\/6547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}