Publications

On publishing and digital bibliography

2026: ‘Reading the edited collection, distantly: some trends in British theological publishing in the twentieth century’ in Schuster and Ohge (eds), New directions in digital textual studies (Bloomsbury).

2020: The edited collection: pasts, present and future (Cambridge University Press)

On Web archives

2021: ‘Digital archaeology in the web of links: reconstructing a late-90s web sphere’ in Gomes, Demidova, Winters and Risse (eds), The past Web: exploring Web archives (Springer), pp.155-64. [ Open Access PDF , publisher’s version of record (£) ]

2020: How researchers use the archived Web (Digital Preservation Coalition report, available as PDF)

2019: ‘Lessons from cross-border religion in the Northern Irish web sphere: understanding the limitations of the ccTLD as a proxy for the national web’ in Niels Brügger & Ditte Laursen, The Historical Web and Digital Humanities: the Case of National Web domains (Routledge) [Available Open Access]

2018: ‘Existing Web archives’ in Niels Brügger and Ian Milligan (eds), The Sage Handbook to Web History (Sage), pp.30-41. [See a summary ].

2017: ‘Users, technologies, organisations: towards a cultural history of world web archiving’ in Niels Brügger (ed.), Web 25: histories from the first 25 years of the World Wide Web (Peter Lang) [See the free PDF ]

On contemporary digital culture and history

2018: ‘Religion and Web history’ in Niels Brügger and Ian Milligan (eds), The Sage Handbook to Web History (Sage), pp.479-90 [Available Open Access ]

2018: ‘Technology, ethics and religious language: early Anglophone Christian reactions to “cyberspace”, Internet Histories [available Open Access]

2017: ‘Digital contemporary history: sources, methods, tools, issues’, Temp: Tidsskrift for Historie 14 (2017), 30-7. [ Available Open Access ]

2017: ‘Religious discourse in the archived web: Rowan Williams, archbishop of Canterbury, and the sharia law controversy of 2008’ in The Web as History: the first two decades (edited by Niels Brügger and Ralph Schroeder, Open Access with UCL Press).

I have also published extensively on contemporary British religious history, listed at peterwebster.me/publications