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 … Continue reading New Digital Preservation Coalition guidance note

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 … Continue reading New publication: Parliament, the law and the Church of England

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 … Continue reading New article on the ‘national Web’

SAGE Handbook of Web history

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

New article: technology, ethics and religious language

Peter’s latest research article has recently been published in the the journal Internet Histories. It has the title ‘Technology, ethics and religious language: early Anglophone Christian reactions to “cyberspace”’. The very recent past has seen an upswing of scholarly interest not so much in the Internet and Web themselves but in the terms in which … Continue reading New article: technology, ethics and religious language