Thomas Pert is a historian of early modern Britain and Europe and specialises in the political, military and social history of the seventeenth century. He holds a DPhil in History from the University of Oxford after previously completing his Undergraduate and Masters degrees at the University of Birmingham. After teaching at Bishop Grosseteste University and the University of Buckingham, Pert is now a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Research Fellow at the University of Warwick. His current research focuses on the experiences of refugees during the Thirty Years' War (1618-1648).