Peter Webster
peterwebster.bsky.social
Peter Webster
@peterwebster.bsky.social
Head of digital scholarship and innovation, Southampton uni library: DH, digitization, preservation, web archives, #GLAM, #OA

Also: historian of 20th c. British Christianity: theology, ecumenism, law/politics, religious arts.

Own views, naturally.
And so the day is here, when I can catch the 0712 and feel as if it's light. Happy new year!
February 5, 2025 at 7:14 AM
Any musical fans care to guess the show? Features a mission hall, and a crap game in a New York sewer.
December 7, 2024 at 11:07 PM
Birthday weekend in London, and a decent view from the hotel.
December 7, 2024 at 5:40 PM
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....
September 9, 2024 at 6:25 AM
Passing by in our steed of steel, a necessary stop to visit the grave of W. B. Yeats.
August 13, 2024 at 6:13 PM
No prizes for guessing where this is.
August 9, 2024 at 4:48 PM
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.
July 13, 2024 at 9:49 AM
So apparently this is genuine. (The second page is even better).
June 5, 2024 at 8:11 PM
In a cavernous hall at JISC #Digifest, listening to a giant @jfwinters.bsky.social
March 13, 2024 at 2:37 PM
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).
March 3, 2024 at 10:42 AM
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.
March 3, 2024 at 8:33 AM
Very much enjoyed tonight's performance of Haydn's 'Creation' at the Royal Festival Hall.
March 2, 2024 at 11:21 PM
Not a bad venue to be lecturing in: the Vicars' Hall at Chichester cathedral. The subject: Iris Murdoch's priests.
February 28, 2024 at 8:51 PM
As for other types of precautions, they pretty much don't bother.
February 6, 2024 at 7:52 PM
Today's Oxfam finds: I love the unlikeliness of this pairing.
December 2, 2023 at 8:00 PM