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.
Also: historian of 20th c. British Christianity: theology, ecumenism, law/politics, religious arts.
Own views, naturally.
We've had a lot of fun with him.
September 25, 2025 at 6:20 PM
We've had a lot of fun with him.
The Peter the Penguin lapel badges are flying off the Welcome Week stall as we speak.
September 25, 2025 at 1:52 PM
The Peter the Penguin lapel badges are flying off the Welcome Week stall as we speak.
Alas, no, the original pattern was named: Peter the Penguin (with his fish)
September 25, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Alas, no, the original pattern was named: Peter the Penguin (with his fish)
(It's a slice of silliness, but with a purpose: it's a way of showcasing the shifts between physical and digital formats that our tools will allow.)
September 25, 2025 at 1:21 PM
(It's a slice of silliness, but with a purpose: it's a way of showcasing the shifts between physical and digital formats that our tools will allow.)
Ha! Alas, I have relatively little time for this, and so if it doesn't start now it won't get done at all.
September 18, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Ha! Alas, I have relatively little time for this, and so if it doesn't start now it won't get done at all.
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…
www.bloomsbury.com
September 16, 2025 at 8:19 AM
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...
Hope it goes very well; sorry to be missing it.
September 3, 2025 at 5:21 AM
Hope it goes very well; sorry to be missing it.
Didn't expect to see that!
August 26, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Didn't expect to see that!
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.
August 11, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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.