| Summary: | A year ago Eddie Norman was sitting writing his final piece as Editor of this Journal. After ten years of excellent service and leadership as Editor, he had finally decided to hang up his pen – or maybe his keyboard. In that Editorial he looked back over the ten years he had presided over the Journal and reflected back on the fact that, at the point he had taken on the role, the Journal had just been relaunched with ‘International in its title’. In his last editorial, Eddie analysed author contributions and ‘online’ journal visits to see just how international the journal really had become. During that first year (2005) there was clear evidence that those publishing in the journal represented an international group of researchers and scholars – articles were from New Zealand, Scotland, Singapore, the USA and England – but the vast majority were from England. Over the last ten years the balance has shifted. In 2014, the Journal published 2 articles from Australia, 1 from Cyprus, 3 from Finland, 1 from France, 1 from Iceland, 1 from Malaysia, 2 from the USA and 3 from England. Online readership has grown and shown a similar shift in balance – in 2010 there were 400 ‘serious’ visitors a month from 128 countries, in 2015 the numbers had grown to nearly 800 ‘serious’ visitors from 167 countries.
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