Reports and academic publications, on digital history, academic publishing, libraries and archives, and contemporary British religious history. See the Research link for a full list.
It’s always a pleasure to see one’s work appear in print, and so I’m very pleased to see the appearance of the volume of essays New directions in digital textual studies: book history, scholarly editing and curation in conversation. It is published by Bloomsbury, and available in paperback and ebook. My own chapter combines my … Continue reading New publication: new directions in digital textual studies
WR&C has contributed the first in a new series of Technology Watch Guidance Notes from the Digital Preservation Coalition, entitled How researchers use the archived Web. We were very pleased to be commissioned to write this short note on the current state of the art. In a context of both novelty and diversity, the Guidance … Continue reading New Digital Preservation Coalition guidance note
Peter Webster’s new book on The Edited Collection: Pasts, Present and Futures is published by Cambridge University Press. It is part of the Cambridge Elements series on Publishing and Book Culture. In the last decade and a half, a strong and negative general theory about the edited collection has taken hold in academic life; a … Continue reading New book on the edited collection
We are delighted to announce the publication of a new book, The Church of England and British politics since 1900, published by Boydell and Brewer. Peter Webster has contributed a chapter on the changing relationship between Parliament and the Church in the crucial decades after the Second World War. From the introduction: Though the facade … Continue reading New publication: Parliament, the law and the Church of England
Peter has contributed a chapter to an important new book, The Historical Web and Digital Humanities: the case of national Web domains, published by Routledge and edited by Niels Brügger & Ditte Laursen. His chapter is entitled ‘Lessons from cross-border religion in the Northern Irish web sphere: understanding the limitations of the ccTLD as a … Continue reading New article on the ‘national Web’
This new book, which promises to become an essential starting point for scholars of the Web, is now published. It contains 40 chapters: some historiographical, theoretical and methodological, and others on concrete case studies. Our own Peter Webster contributed two chapters. The first, ‘Existing Web archives‘, provides an essential orientation to the web archives around … Continue reading SAGE Handbook of Web history
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