Congratulations to Dr Philipp Rössner, Lecturer in Modern European History, on the publication of his edited monograph Martin Luther: On Commerce and Usury (1524), (Anthem Press, 2016). As Philipp comments, this book marks an important intervention in the field because it provides ‘a scholarly introduction plus a revised translation of Martin Luther’s economic thought as presented in his…
Month: November 2016
What’s in a petition? Dr Henry Miller discusses plans for a new research network.
Image: Mrs. Pankhurst carrying a petition from the Third Women’s Parliament to the Prime Minister, February 13, 1908. Recent years have seen a huge surge of e-petitioning through websites such as http://www.change.org, the White House’s We the People website [https://petitions.whitehouse.gov] and https://petition.parliament.uk. E-petitioning has flourished in an age of falling election turnouts and declining political…
Some historical reflections on the Refugee Crisis by Professor Peter Gatrell
Vietnamese Boat people in 1984: image courtesy of Wikimedia commons I’ve been teaching a course on ‘Refugees in modern world history’ for several years and I wrote a book as a result – see http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780198744474.do). Never has the subject seemed timelier or more troubling than in 2015. Here are a few short observations about what…
Some historical reflections on the Refugee Crisis by Professor Peter Gatrell
Vietnamese Boat people in 1984: image courtesy of Wikimedia commons I’ve been teaching a course on ‘Refugees in modern world history’ for several years and I wrote a book as a result – see http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780198744474.do). Never has the subject seemed timelier or more troubling than in 2015. Here are a few short observations about what…
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