Peter Webster was delighted to be invited to introduce and chair a session at this year’s World Library and Information Congress in Wroclaw (Poland). The session was jointly convened by the National Libraries and IT sections of IFLA, on the subject of access to Web archives. Peter introduced the speakers, from Canada, France and UK,… Read More
The silence of the archive: a review
[A review that appeared first in the LSE Review of Books.] David Thomas, Simon Fowler and Valerie Johnson. The Silence of the Archive. Facet, 2017. In the past two to three decades, the archival profession has been caught between two currents of cultural and technological change: simultaneous, largely unrelated, both apparently inexorable. Largely confined to… Read More
Understanding the users of the Parliamentary Web Archive
In June, Peter gave a presentation with Chris Fryer of the Parliamentary Archives on this recent project. WR&C designed and carried out an evaluation of the Parliamentary Web Archive, giving the Parliamentary Archives a new understanding of the ways in which their service is used, and what the next steps are for development. The slides… Read More
On digital contemporary history
Peter Webster is the author of a new article in a special issue of the leading Danish historical journal, Temp: Tidsskrift for historie on the subject of the Information Society. The article is entitled ‘Digital contemporary history: sources, tools, methods, issues’ This essay suggests that there has been a relative lack of digitally enabled historical… Read More
WR&C takes part in major historical digitisation project
Church, State and Nation in Britain, 1900-1939 is a three-year project funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. It will create a freely available digital edition of the journals of Hensley Henson, bishop of Durham, famously trenchant public moralist and one of the greatest of English diarists. It is led by Dr Julia Stapleton… Read More
The Web as history
Peter Webster is one of the contributors to this new book from UCL Press, showcasing new research and methodological reflection on web archives as a new kind of scholarly resource. Edited by Niels Brügger and Ralph Schroeder, it is published on an Open Access basis, meaning that it is free to download. Peter’s chapter uses… Read More
Research report: The Resilient Business
We’re very pleased to announce the publication of a new report, commissioned from WR&C by the Jubilee Centre, the Christian thinktank for social and economic ethics. It examines the recent history of a group of businesses, all founded with a Christian ethos, and the means that they have adopted to ensure that that ethos has… Read More
WR&C takes part in new research network on born-digital data for history
We are delighted to announce that WR&C is among the main partners in a new AHRC-funded research network for ‘Born-digital big data and methods for history and the humanities’. Led by Professor Jane Winters (Institute of Historical Research) with Dr Tobias Blanke (King’s College London), the partners are the British Library, the National Archives, and… Read More
Web Archiving 101
It was a great pleasure to work with former colleagues at the University of London Computing Centre this week to deliver Web Archiving 101, a day course which forms part of ULCC’s highly successful Digital Preservation Training Programme. My thanks to Steph Taylor and Ed Pinsent, my fellow trainers, and also Sara Day Thomson from… Read More
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