If there is one thing everyone seems to agree on about COVID-19, it is that nothing will be quite the same again. The worlds of higher education and of galleries, libraries, archives and museums have suddenly been upended. In universities, already rocked (in the UK) by the recent strike, the shift to online tuition has… Read More
New Digital Preservation Coalition guidance note
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… Read More
New book on the edited collection
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… Read More
Project evaluation of the Faith Leader Training Initiative
WR&C was commissioned to carry out a final evaluation of this training scheme for leaders of all faith groups in the UK. The FLTI has been running since 2019, and is provided by the Cadbury Centre for the Public Understanding of Religion (part of the University of Birmingham). The project is funded by the Ministry… Read More
New publication: Parliament, the law and the Church of England
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… Read More
Project evaluation for the Church of England
We were delighted to be commissioned, along with Dr Ian Jones of Saltley Research and Evaluation, to conduct an interim evaluation of a project in the diocese of Bristol. The diocese has established three mission areas as part of a programme funded by the Church of England’s Strategic Development Fund. Through a review of existing… Read More
WR&C helps a first venture in online publishing
We were delighted to be able to assist a small Christian educational charity take its first steps in online publication. The Society of the Faith has a century-long history in print publishing, but for the papers of a recent symposium, the Society wanted to look at other options. WR&C was able to help the Society… Read More
WR&C contributes to new British Academy report
The British Academy have just published a new report, entitled Open Access and Book Chapters. We were delighted to be commissioned to both help define the scope of this study, and to contribute to the research and the writing. The report is available on the British Academy site. From the British Academy site: “Open Access… Read More
New article on the ‘national Web’
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… Read More
Helping the IIPC understand its members
We were particularly delighted to work with former colleagues in the International Internet Preservation Consortium, to design, deliver and analyse a survey questionnaire of its membership. The survey gathered information on all aspects of Web archiving in national, regional and university libraries across the world. It covered selection policies, the profile and management of existing… Read More
