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Once again, it was my privilege to chair the judging panel for this, in memory of a much-missed colleague and friend. Those who knew Richard will be able to imagine how delighted he would have been to see the vitality of digital history.

James Baker @jwbaker.bsky.social · 19d

📢 The 2025 Richard Deswarte Prize in Digital History is awarded to Scheltinga, Budts, and Puttevils for ‘(Fe)male Voices on Stage: Finding Patterns in Lottery Rhymes of the Late Medieval and Early Modern Low Countries with and without AI’

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2025 Richard Deswarte Prize in Digital History - Digital History Seminar

We are delighted to announce that the 2025 Richard Deswarte Prize in Digital History is awarded to Marly Terwisscha van Scheltinga, Sara Budts, and Jeroen Puttevils (University of Antwerp) for their a...

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Peter Webster @peterwebster.bsky.social · 22d

Nice write-up of what our two placement students got up to over the summer, looked after by my colleague James Macdonell.

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Inside Digital Scholarship - Digital Scholarship - LibGuides@Southampton at University of Southampton Library

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Peter Webster @peterwebster.bsky.social · 23d

Ha! Alas, I have relatively little time for this, and so if it doesn't start now it won't get done at all.

Peter Webster @peterwebster.bsky.social · 23d

Preparing for a lecture in January on what networks of authors in edited collections can reveal about the global history of evangelicalism in the 20th century.

I take some of the approaches discussed here:
peterwebster.me/2024/11/15/r...

And apply them to this:
peterwebster.me/2019/07/03/e...

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 · 25d

The collection itself is available to pre-order and (by way of a pleasant surprise) in paperback from the beginning: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/new-direc...

New Directions in Digital Textual Studies

The overlaps between the digital humanities and textual studies-two major scholarly fields which share common interests and methods-still demand further theoret…

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Peter Webster @peterwebster.bsky.social · 25d

The proofs of this just landed. Open Access postprint in the quoted post, but DM me if you'd like the proofs instead.

Peter Webster @peterwebster.bsky.social · May 14

Contracts signed, so getting closer to publication for this chapter:

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

Summary and Open Access PDF at:

peterwebster.me/2024/11/15/r...

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…

peterwebster.me

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John Maiden @johnmaiden.bsky.social · 29d

Excited to announce that the paperback edition of Age of the Spirt, a #history of #charismatic #Christianity, is out on 26 September (on my birthday no less!). Pre-order here or at your preferred retailer! Thanks to OUP for making this happen.
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Age of the Spirit by John G. Maiden | Waterstones

Buy Age of the Spirit by John G. Maiden from Waterstones today! Click and Collect from your local Waterstones or get FREE UK delivery on orders over £25.

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Peter Webster @peterwebster.bsky.social · Sep 2

New post, and a new venture into Irish fiction (the series hitherto having featured British writers.)

Peter Webster @peterwebster.bsky.social · Sep 1

New post on the blog, and another fictional priest, from an author I've only recently discovered and have been enjoying enormously: Brian Moore.

The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne (1955)
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Judith Hearne and the clockwork church

To write about Irish fiction is to step into territory which I have tried to avoid. This has not been for a lack of love, though that love has been kindled only recently. Modern Irish literature is…

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Peter Webster @peterwebster.bsky.social · Sep 3

Hope it goes very well; sorry to be missing it.

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Peter Webster @peterwebster.bsky.social · Sep 2

Some details on my little fictional priests project.

Peter Webster @peterwebster.bsky.social · Aug 1

Fired up with new energy for this little project, with lots of new characters to write about. It's a way of re-energising my writing. Right now, I don't have the time for big projects, but I can (for the time being) work by a series of vignettes; it's a kind of collage.

Peter Webster @peterwebster.bsky.social · Jul 29

Some work still to do, but here's a new way into my series of posts on clergy in modern English fiction. There are some new ones coming up, but suggestions of others I've missed are very welcome.

peterwebster.me/the-clergy-i...

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Peter Webster @peterwebster.bsky.social · Sep 2

New post, and a new venture into Irish fiction (the series hitherto having featured British writers.)

Peter Webster @peterwebster.bsky.social · Sep 1

New post on the blog, and another fictional priest, from an author I've only recently discovered and have been enjoying enormously: Brian Moore.

The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne (1955)
peterwebster.me/2025/09/01/j...

Judith Hearne and the clockwork church

To write about Irish fiction is to step into territory which I have tried to avoid. This has not been for a lack of love, though that love has been kindled only recently. Modern Irish literature is…

peterwebster.me

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Peter Webster @peterwebster.bsky.social · Sep 1

New post on the blog, and another fictional priest, from an author I've only recently discovered and have been enjoying enormously: Brian Moore.

The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne (1955)
peterwebster.me/2025/09/01/j...

Judith Hearne and the clockwork church

To write about Irish fiction is to step into territory which I have tried to avoid. This has not been for a lack of love, though that love has been kindled only recently. Modern Irish literature is…

peterwebster.me

Peter Webster @peterwebster.bsky.social · Aug 26

Didn't expect to see that!

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Peter Webster @peterwebster.bsky.social · Aug 11

I was there in the summer of 1992 and was very struck by this: the choice to not simply erase the old, but somehow symbolically emphasize its overthrow.

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Peter Webster @peterwebster.bsky.social · Jul 30

A little blog post introducing some of the themes of this chapter: peterwebster.me/2025/07/30/c...

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Peter Webster @peterwebster.bsky.social · Aug 10

An excellent summary. And, worse still, as a sector we expect senior scholars to somehow just acquire the skills to manage this kind of complexity and contradiction.

profserious @profserious.bsky.social · Aug 10

Very few people seem to understand university finances and, distressingly, this includes many academics and most policymakers. This is an attempt to condense the key points you need to know. open.substack.com/pub/profseri...

Understanding University Finances

... a very short guide

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Peter Webster @peterwebster.bsky.social · Aug 10

I'm not saying we live in the country, but the opposition in my game of cricket on Thursday were two players short because they were busy with the harvest.
#SoVillage #ABitAgricultural

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Peter Webster @peterwebster.bsky.social · Aug 10

A great favourite of ours.

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