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Peter Webster @peterwebster.bsky.social · 13h

Eldest safely deposited at university yesterday, and today he sends me an image of his first library card. #Parent-Librarian-Feelings

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Peter Webster @peterwebster.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

We take our eldest in a couple of weeks; all the feels, as you say.

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Peter Webster @peterwebster.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

TFW you find a new piece of historical work, welcome and valuable and in general well executed, that ignores your own (very relevant) work.

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Peter Webster @peterwebster.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

I was particularly interested as the next instalment in this project on the edited collection as a publishing format looks at the networks of contributors. I'm using a different set of tools, but on the same principles. Just need to find the time to write it all up. peterwebster.me/2024/11/15/r...

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Reading the edited collection, distantly: some trends in British theological publishing in the twentieth century

Regular readers will know that I’ve become interested in the history of publishing, both as an exercise in the history of technology and as a way of seeing how communities of thought and disc…

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Peter Webster @peterwebster.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Very interesting webinar from @proghist.bsky.social yesterday: look out for a new lesson before too long (I hope) on visualising networks in library catalogue metadata. programminghistorian.org/en/lessons/

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Lesson Directory | Programming Historian

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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 · 23/06/2026

I worked on the 14th floor of this building, and spent many happy minutes slowly riding the paternoster lift. Faster than the stairs, less waiting than with the lift.

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Peter Webster @peterwebster.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Do you think they'd be interested in 'The edited collection: pasts, present, futures'? It's pretty racy in places.

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Peter Webster @peterwebster.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Hive mind: is it just me, or has Bluesky limited how many of your Likes it will show to those made in the last six months?

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Ruth Ahnert @ruthahnert.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

This feels as good a time as any to announce that in Sept I’ll be moving to Cambridge Digital Humanities as Professor of DH and Deputy Director. Excited for the new challenge, but also sad and thankful for the amazing colleagues I’m leaving.

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Peter Webster @peterwebster.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

The project is also making some very promising new tools available via its Github page: github.com/WEB-CHILD

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WEB CHILD

WEB CHILD has 13 repositories available. Follow their code on GitHub.

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Peter Webster @peterwebster.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

The Web Child project that @sesamescholar.bsky.social is leading (2025-30) is described at cas.au.dk/en/erc-webch...

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WEBCHILD

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Peter Webster @peterwebster.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Looking forward to some web archive research goodness shortly from @sesamescholar.bsky.social and Victor Harbo Johnston, courtesy of @netpreserve.bsky.social : netpreserve.org/event/iipc-r...

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IIPC RSS Webinar: WEB CHILD - IIPC

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Peter Webster @peterwebster.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

It's taken a while, but there's now an Open Access version of an essay of mine (the publisher offered no route to OA, with or without embargo). Come and satisfy all your canon law history needs: 'Parliament and the law of the Church of England, 1943–74 peterwebster.wordpress.com/wp-content/u...

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Peter Webster @peterwebster.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

@hadro.bsky.social there are several directories for Southampton (UK) in this collection; not available as full text download, yet, but I'd be interested, like Sarah, to see where you go with this. viewer.soton.ac.uk/collections/...

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Browse all collections

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Peter Webster @peterwebster.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Interesting paper at #susDH @ukiedh.bsky.social on designing DH project websites as static outputs for long-term sustainability. As an example: the Russian Visual Arts Project, my first job, which closed in 2003: still looking exactly the same save for the search. www.dhi.ac.uk/rva/index.html

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Russian Visual Arts Project Homepage

The Russian Visual Arts Project website is a major source of translations of nineteenth and early twentieth century Russian art criticism, with associated digital images of works of art, a timeline of...

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Peter Webster @peterwebster.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Very pleased to be at this conference today. Is there a hashtag @ukiedh.bsky.social ?

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Peter Webster @peterwebster.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Sounds a bit dry, but it's the story of how Parliament, by dozens of small steps, relinquished its control over the Church of England, while leaving the appearance of establishment largely intact. All you ever wanted to know about the Parochial Church Councils (Powers) (Amendment) Measure 1949.

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Peter Webster @peterwebster.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

peterwebster.wordpress.com

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Peter Webster @peterwebster.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

As I have more time now for interesting things, I got this out and dusted it off a bit. websterresearchconsulting.com

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Webster Research and Consulting

Visit the post for more.

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Peter Webster @peterwebster.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

The waters have since closed over the controversy but the clock face in the church tower was the subject of furious letters to the Times.

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Dr Kiki Kuijjer @evelinekiki.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

The University of Southampton Summer Art Exhibition "Exploration: Beyond Boundaries" is open! Come and see my art piece "Submerged Worlds" - tactile 3D-printed seascapes you can explore through touch as well as sight! 📍 Level 4 Gallery, Hartley Library 📅 3 June - 3 Aug More info: tiny.cc/adk4101

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Dr Kiki Kuijjer @evelinekiki.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Can you hold a dataset in your hands? It turns out you can! In my latest post for Inside Digital Scholarship, I explore data physicalisation and show how GEBCO data can be turned into a tangible raised-relief globe. Read it here 👇 tinyurl.com/bak6m6jm #DataPhysicalisation #DigitalScholshi

Two hands holding a bright blue raised relief globe

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Peter Webster @peterwebster.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

*sees the university managerialism discourse* *contemplates, again, expressing some Unpopular Views* *closes laptop*

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Peter Webster @peterwebster.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

This, really, is the crux of the issue, and it seems a peculiarly British problem.

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Melissa Terras @melissaterras.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

New paper! By Naomi Korn, @smitakheria.bsky.social & me: "Orphan Works, Mass-Digitisation of Cultural Heritage, and Licensing Barriers: Lessons from the United Kingdom’s Experience" - how Brexit led to the deletion of @britishlibrary.bsky.social's Spare Rib resource or.niscpr.res.in/index.php/JI...

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View of Orphan Works, Mass-Digitisation of Cultural Heritage, and Licensing Barriers: Lessons from the United Kingdom’s Experience

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Peter Webster @peterwebster.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Agreed, and to assume that whichever constituency is chosen will simply troop to the polls to ratify his coronation seems rather heroic.

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Peter Webster @peterwebster.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Miliband is the exception to that, I'd want to say.

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Peter Webster @peterwebster.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

None of them will succeed unless they figure out how to set out a vision of how things can be made better, and what it would cost.

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Peter Webster @peterwebster.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

(Streeting was NUS president when I was a grad student).

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Peter Webster @peterwebster.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Listening to an interview with Polanski and feeling - for the first time - that political leadership is coming from a generation younger than me. (In truth, there's only a decade between us but the gap in sensibility feels much wider.)

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mia ridge @miaout.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

@ryancordell.org on DHers who build 'technological imagination. Specific platforms, applications, and even coding languages come and go, but a technological imagination is able to abstract a problem—whether intellectual, professional, or personal—and formulate a plan' ryancordell.org/research/ane...

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Anemoia, AI, and Skeuomorphism: The Material Turn in Digital Humanities | Ryan C. Cordell

Book history, digital humanities, old newspapers, and information sciences

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Peter Webster @peterwebster.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

I have no idea whether the figure of *fifty* institutions on the brink is accurate, but it wouldn't be a surprise. It would be good if Labour would stop fighting for the steering wheel and watched the road, as this has been evident for many months. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Students at risk if universities go bust, say MPs

An Education Select Committee report finds the government needs to make urgent plans for universities facing insolvency.

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Peter Webster @peterwebster.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

I had Reform in mind here, but (IMO) a lot also depends on which Green Party shows up to govern: old-style "think global, act local" environmental activism, or something closer to Corbyn's Labour.

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Ben Williams @bpwilliams72.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Lib Dems control more English councils than the Conservative Party, the Green Party and Reform UK. Not that you'd know this from yesterday's coverage. The media's lack of curiosity and imagination and its inability to explore beyond the populist noise is as depressing as it is boringly predictable.

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Peter Webster @peterwebster.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Lots of English voters are about to find out what happens to local services when under the control of politicians interested only in gestures and not in the difficult, boring and unfashionable business of local government.

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James Baker @jwbaker.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

⏰ Just over a month remaining to submit your nominations for the Deswarte Prize in Digital History, the prize that celebrates the best of digital history internationally. Full info here: ihrdighist.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2021/12/the-... #dhist

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The 2026 Richard Deswarte Prize in Digital History - Digital History Seminar

SUBMIT YOUR NOMINATION HERE BEFORE 31 MAY Richard Deswarte (1965-2021) was one of the founding convenors of the Digital History seminar at the Institute of Historical Research (IHR), University of Lon...

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Martin Grandjean @martingrandjean.ch · 05/05/2026

Did you know? If you like Gephi and find it useful, you can support us by making a small donation here: opencollective.com/gephi This allows the developers to meet more often to keep the software moving forward. Thank you to everyone who supports us! 🙏

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Gephi - Open Collective

Welcome to the Gephi collective platform! This is were you can support the project and help us maintain the infrastructure of our code and community.

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Jane Winters @jfwinters.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

‘Exploring Digital Cultural Heritage’ is now out in the wild! You can download an open-access copy (PDF) or read the free digital edition on Manifold uolpress.co.uk/book/explori.... Loved working on this with Eirini Goudarouli, @amsichani.bsky.social & the @uolpress.bsky.social team.

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

It's a good night to read this excellent piece, on the Orban regime's network of financial support for the nationalist right in Britain. For many on the radical right, the tills are about to stop ringing. democracyforsale.substack.com/p/orbans-brits

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What happens to Britain's radical right if Orbán loses?

Inside the money, power and patronage connecting Hungary and the British right

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12/04/2026

i hope the white house sends vance to campaign for Reform in britain

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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

one immediate dramatic consequence of the Hungarian result: Magyar has promised to repair relations with the EU and unblock a €90bn EU loan for Ukraine

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Peter Webster @peterwebster.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

And a slap in the face to foreign politicians who sought to influence the election. At last, some good news!

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Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

For almost a century generations of scholars and thinkers have tried to understand why the Germans sleepwalked into disaster. Future generations will focus on a different case.

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Peter Webster @peterwebster.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

"We do not know who struck first, us or them. But we do know it was us that scorched the sky."

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