Interview with Pierre Fuller, Lecturer in East Asian History. What was the inspiration for this project? Web searches remain the predominant avenue for non-academic researchers seeking historical data or contextualisation. Yet online searches on the major topics that I have been researching and publishing on for years – famine, earthquakes and other types of disaster…

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…

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…