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.

OMG Peter @nickiclarkson.bsky.social you are genius

For the avoidance of doubt: not named after me.

Introducing the Southampton Digital Scholarship team mascot: Just who is Peter the Penguin? library.soton.ac.uk/digital-scho...

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. library.soton.ac.uk/digital-scho...

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...

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

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. www.waterstones.com/book/age-of-...

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

Some details on my little fictional priests project.

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

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...

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

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...

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.

I realised that I didn't put out an OA version of another article on Iris Murdoch, from last year. 'Vocation, Hypocrisy and Secularization: Iris Murdoch and the Clergy of the Church of England' Studies in Church History 60 (2024) Summary post and free PDF at: peterwebster.me/2025/07/31/i...

I'm about to go out on a limb and say that few people now read the fiction of Alice Perrin. Does anyone want to contest that, before I commit it to paper?

I realised that I didn't put out an OA version of another article on Iris Murdoch, from last year. 'Vocation, Hypocrisy and Secularization: Iris Murdoch and the Clergy of the Church of England' Studies in Church History 60 (2024) Summary post and free PDF at: peterwebster.me/2025/07/31/i...

Surprising but most illuminating: Scorsese on his debt to the films of Powell and Pressburger. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

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...

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

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...

I now have the PDF of this, so do get in touch if your library doesn't have the book.

Great to see this: congratulations to the editors on bringing it to fruition.

Some time to myself today, and I'm thinking through ways to refresh this long-term project of mine: thinking about the (many) Christian ministers in English fiction. It started here: peterwebster.me/2014/01/16/a...

While I'm on the subject of my team, we had our regular open house last week, showing off current projects to colleagues from other teams. A real proud manager moment for me.

Nice write-up from my colleague Katie Green on the past and future of gallery spaces, and what my team have been up to at Southampton library.soton.ac.uk/digital-scho...

I don't usually do the proud parent thing, but here's our eldest living his best life with the National Youth Orchestra. He's the one talking at the end. youtu.be/Kpipj4dBG3g?...

One day someone will write a paper explaining the strange obsession of the British left-liberal media with the Glastonbury Festival.

🔊 Tomorrow at midday (BST) join the @ihr.bsky.social Digital History seminar live on Zoom for Nathan Richards on 'TechnoMnemonics (vol.1): Navigating the Middle Passage Across Algorithmic Undercurrents'. Details here: ihrdighist.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2024/09/tues...

World War 3 kinda sucks, but you know, it was either this or pronouns

Well, quite.

How are we going to write methodologically-sound and ethically-sensitive histories of the early Web era? I don't have concrete answers, but I have some informed musings in JDH which has just come out. journalofdigitalhistory.org/en/article/7...

The things my team get up to: a giant 3D-printed foot. library.soton.ac.uk/digital-scho...

The protest stories from my parents’ retirement communities are amazing. Budgets for sign making committee, transportation sign ups, walker brigade v mobility carts fracas. Fired up seniors are something to behold.

Of all the images of yesterday, this would worry me most if I were Trump.

"Where Past Meets Present: Preserving Medieval Southampton" -- another peak into what our Southampton Digital Humanities team have been doing with city vaults, scanning tech, and 3d printing for public access and understanding pixelfed.social/p/dh/8376159...

And here's the whole collection.

We’ve just launched a free online course on ‘Born-digital research in the humanities’ reshaped.sas.ac.uk. It covers key concepts, ethics, copyright & accessing, collecting and analysing born-digital data. You can browse the course with guest access or create an account. All CC-BY-NC licensed!

#DigitalHumanities folk in Ireland and the UK, please consider completing this UK-Ireland DH Association survey on advocacy within and for DH. Your responses will help to shape Association policy and practice in the future. Thank you!

The publisher places very strict restrictions on Open Access before an embargo period expires, so very happy to let folk have the final MS if you'd like to drop me a skeet.

Proofs submitted, publication in July (I'm told): look out for an edited collection on Iris Murdoch and the Christian tradition, including a chapter from me: 'Christian readers in England and the philosophy of Iris Murdoch, 1948-c.1982'

I #AmWriting. That is all. Despite my doubts as to whether folk want to read what comes out, there's no feeling like it.

We are calling for expert contributions from scholars, technologists, designers, comics authors, and practitioners across disciplines for abstracts (200 words) + bios (100 words) on a range of topics and approaches on Comics and AI. Deadline: 10 July 2025 comicsandai.org

How one UK learned society put values before dollars. Rupture between American studies association and US embassy highlights choices facing academia, says Michael Collins. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-v...