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Peter Webster

@peterwebster.bsky.social

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Runs Webster Research & Consulting, helping #GLAM make better services for digital research: understand, plan, design, build, evaluate. Outgoing Head of Digital Scholarship & Innovation, Southampton uni library. Historian of 20th c. British Christianity.

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Peter Webster @peterwebster.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Just finished this. I think I need a little lie down, or a stiff drink, or something. And I can't tell you why without spoilers.

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Peter Webster @peterwebster.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Look what arrived in the post, featuring an essay by yours truly.

A book entitled New Directions in Digital Textual Studies.

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Peter Webster @peterwebster.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

If you're free on Monday, I'll be giving an online talk: "The edited collection as community: explorations in the history of a discipline" 6pm CET, hosted on Zoom by colleagues in Germany. QR code in the image, and/or Meeting ID.

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Peter Webster @peterwebster.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

And so the day is here, when I can catch the 0712 and feel as if it's light. Happy new year!

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Peter Webster @peterwebster.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Any musical fans care to guess the show? Features a mission hall, and a crap game in a New York sewer.

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Peter Webster @peterwebster.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Birthday weekend in London, and a decent view from the hotel.

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Peter Webster @peterwebster.bsky.social · 09/09/2024

Arrived at the weekend, the printed copy of this. Among all my publications, I'm particularly pleased somehow by this one. It's on Iris Murdoch and her Anglican clergy. doi.org/10.1017/stc....

First page of 'Vocation, hypocrisy and secularization: Iris Murdoch and the Church of England'

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Peter Webster @peterwebster.bsky.social · 13/08/2024

Passing by in our steed of steel, a necessary stop to visit the grave of W. B. Yeats.

The gravestone of Yeats, in Drumcliff, Co. Sligo.

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Peter Webster @peterwebster.bsky.social · 09/08/2024

No prizes for guessing where this is.

The crowd gathering at the Royal Albert Hall.

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Peter Webster @peterwebster.bsky.social · 13/07/2024

Starmer with the Churchillian rhetoric which was largely missing from the campaign. I suspect there are many moderate Tories who would find it hard to disagree with this.

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Peter Webster @peterwebster.bsky.social · 05/06/2024

So apparently this is genuine. (The second page is even better).

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Peter Webster @peterwebster.bsky.social · 13/03/2024

In a cavernous hall at JISC #Digifest, listening to a giant @jfwinters.bsky.social

A panel of speakers on stage, beneath a giant stage.

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Peter Webster @peterwebster.bsky.social · 03/03/2024

A treat to myself yesterday from the inestimable Foyles of London. There's so much more to Vaughan Williams than 'The Lark Ascending', (wonderful though it undoubtedly is).

The box set of Bernard Haitink's recordings of Vaughan Williams' symphonies.

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Peter Webster @peterwebster.bsky.social · 03/03/2024

As it happens, before last night I had only ever been to the RFH as a performer, and so hadn't really noticed the organ, but what a feature it is. It could have been boxed in, but was not, and to what an effect.

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Peter Webster @peterwebster.bsky.social · 02/03/2024

Very much enjoyed tonight's performance of Haydn's 'Creation' at the Royal Festival Hall.

Stage and performers as seen from the balcony.

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Peter Webster @peterwebster.bsky.social · 28/02/2024

Not a bad venue to be lecturing in: the Vicars' Hall at Chichester cathedral. The subject: Iris Murdoch's priests.

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Peter Webster @peterwebster.bsky.social · 06/02/2024

As for other types of precautions, they pretty much don't bother.

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Peter Webster @peterwebster.bsky.social · 02/12/2023

Today's Oxfam finds: I love the unlikeliness of this pairing.

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