To regular readers of this blog, this will appear as a normal post. But thanks to a significant move by Automattic (the people behind wordpress.com who host this blog), it can now be read directly by users of Mastodon and other parts of the fediverse. Users need only follow the feed at [at] websterresearchconsulting.com@websterresearchconsulting.com to … Continue reading Joining the fediblogosphere
In November Peter Webster gave a keynote lecture to the HES conference in Exeter, with the title ‘Doing history in a 360-degree digitised world: how we got here, and what to do about it’. It was a great pleasure to spend time with the Society, and Peter greatly appreciated the invitation to come and speak. … Continue reading Keynote paper at the History of Education Society conference
I was very thankful for the opportunity to sponsor the first iteration of the Richard Deswarte Prize for Digital History, in memory of a much-missed friend and colleague who passed away in 2021. The first award of the prize was made to Pim Huijnen and Joris van Eijnatten for their outstanding article, ‘Something happened to … Continue reading The Richard Deswarte Prize in Digital History
It’s been a breathless few days in the fediverse. Following Twitter’s bizarre self-immolation at the hands of Elon Musk, the many different instances of Mastodon have been inundated with new users. As one would expect, much of the conversation has been about the medium itself, as existing users help new arrivals get to grips with … Continue reading First thoughts on the fediverse
Peter Webster recently contributed a chapter to a collection of essays with the title The Past Web : Exploring Web archives, published by Springer. It is entitled ‘Digital archaeology in the Web of links: reconstructing a late-1990s Web sphere’. Using an iterative computational method of interrogating the graph of links for the archived UK web, … Continue reading New article: reconstructing a late Nineties Web sphere
We were delighted to be commissioned by the University Council on Modern Languages, in conjunction with the British Academy, to produce a report on recent trends in university admissions. The study “unearthed a more vibrant languages landscape in UK higher education than recent reports of ‘crisis’ suggest.” The report was based on analysis of UCAS … Continue reading New report for the University Council on Modern Languages
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