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
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,… Read More
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… Read More
COVID-19: has everything changed?
If there is one thing everyone seems to agree on about COVID-19, it is that nothing will be quite the same again. The worlds of higher education and of galleries, libraries, archives and museums have suddenly been upended. In universities, already rocked (in the UK) by the recent strike, the shift to online tuition has… Read More
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… Read More
New book on the edited collection
Peter Webster’s new book on The Edited Collection: Pasts, Present and Futures is published by Cambridge University Press. It is part of the Cambridge Elements series on Publishing and Book Culture. In the last decade and a half, a strong and negative general theory about the edited collection has taken hold in academic life; a… Read More
WR&C contributes to new British Academy report
The British Academy have just published a new report, entitled Open Access and Book Chapters. We were delighted to be commissioned to both help define the scope of this study, and to contribute to the research and the writing. The report is available on the British Academy site. From the British Academy site: “Open Access… Read More
Helping the IIPC understand its members
We were particularly delighted to work with former colleagues in the International Internet Preservation Consortium, to design, deliver and analyse a survey questionnaire of its membership. The survey gathered information on all aspects of Web archiving in national, regional and university libraries across the world. It covered selection policies, the profile and management of existing… 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
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