Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. James E. Connolly, ‘Notable Protests: Respectable Resistance in Occupied Northern France, 1914-1918,’ Historical Research, vol. 88, issue 242 (November 2015), pp. 693-715. It can be accessed online here This article is based on a chapter of my PhD thesis (and planned monograph) about French behaviours under the German occupation of the…

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…