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.
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
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 … Continue reading On digital contemporary 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 … Continue reading The Web as history
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