Congratulations go to our post-doctoral researcher, Dr Tom Pert, for securing a position on the interdisciplinary research project 'Massacre and the Law: Atrocity, The Holy Roman Empire, and the Thirty Years War' funded by the Fritz-Thyssen Foundation. The project aims to establish the impact of atrocity on thinking about the nature of 'just conduct' of war both inter- and intra-state, the idea of civilian immunity, and the connection between military discipline and the prevention of atrocity. The project combines the histories of political thought, philosophy, theology, and law with the history of violence, and Tom will be based at the University of Liverpool. He has also been elected as a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society! 🙂