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.… Read More
The Richard Deswarte Prize in Digital History
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… Read More
Forthcoming conferences
Peter will be making three separate appearances in the next few weeks, in the UK, Germany and online. He will be in Frankfurt at the German National Library in November to speak about web archives for research at a conference on the preservation of digital cultural heritage. On 17th October he will be moderating a… Read More
Peter Webster at IFLA 2017
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
Webster Research & Consulting 