New publication: new directions in digital textual studies

It’s always a pleasure to see one’s work appear in print, and so I’m very pleased to see the appearance of the volume of essays New directions in digital textual studies: book history, scholarly editing and curation in conversation. It is published by Bloomsbury, and available in paperback and ebook. My own chapter combines my … Continue reading New publication: new directions in digital textual studies

Keynote paper at the History of Education Society conference

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. … Continue reading Keynote paper at the History of Education Society conference

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 … Continue reading The Richard Deswarte Prize in Digital History

New article: reconstructing a late Nineties Web sphere

Peter Webster recently contributed a chapter to a collection of essays with the title The Past Web : Exploring Web archives, published by Springer. It is entitled ‘Digital archaeology in the Web of links: reconstructing a late-1990s Web sphere’. Using an iterative computational method of interrogating the graph of links for the archived UK web, … Continue reading New article: reconstructing a late Nineties Web sphere

New report for the University Council on Modern Languages

We were delighted to be commissioned by the University Council on Modern Languages, in conjunction with the British Academy, to produce a report on recent trends in university admissions. The study “unearthed a more vibrant languages landscape in UK higher education than recent reports of ‘crisis’ suggest.” The report was based on analysis of UCAS … Continue reading New report for the University Council on Modern Languages