Peter Webster

YouTube video by IHR Digital History Seminar Marly Terwisscha van Scheltinga, Sara Budts, and Jeroen Puttevils: (Fe)male Voices on Stage

If you missed yesterday's wonderful Deswarte Prize seminar - ' (Fe)male Voices on Stage: Finding Patterns in Lottery Rhymes of the Late Medieval and Early Modern Low Countries with and without AI' - it is now on the @ihr.bsky.social Digital History Seminar youtube channel youtu.be/iwT7PRy-eQs?...

Tuesday 4 November 2025 - Deswarte Prize Seminar - Marly Terwisscha van Scheltinga, Sara Budts, and Jeroen Puttevils (University of Antwerp): (Fe)male Voices on Stage: Finding Patterns in Lottery Rhym... This seminar is 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm GMT live on Zoom at https://zoom.us/j/96338659032 later posted to our YouTube channel. Session chair: James Baker. This seminar will celebrate the winning entry for ...

Join the @ihr.bsky.social Digital History seminar on 4 November (12:00 GMT on Zoom) to celebrate the winning entry for the 2025 Richard Deswarte Prize in Digital History and to learn about gender and lottery rhymes in the medieval/early-modern low countries ihrdighist.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2025/09/tues...

Come and work with us! We have a two-year, half-time postdoctoral research associate position working on the @storymachine-ht.bsky.social project www.jobs.london.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai.... If you’re interested in #DigitalHumanities and/or folklore, we’d love to hear from you. Closing date 27 October.

We've had a lot of fun with him.

OMG Peter @nickiclarkson.bsky.social you are genius

For the avoidance of doubt: not named after me.

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)

(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.)

Introducing the Southampton Digital Scholarship team mascot:

Just who is Peter the Penguin?

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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.

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

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…

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:
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And apply them to this:
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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…

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...

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

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

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

Some details on my little fictional priests project.

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

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…

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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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.

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

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.

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

A great favourite of ours.

The new book has arrived! Very pleased to add this to the 'Iris Murdoch Today' collection from @springernature.com, all eight of which were published in the past three years.

Full details here: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Walking barefoot with Aidan, Bede and Cuthbert to Lindisfarne lukemckernan.com/2025/07/31/w...