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This feels as good a time as any to announce that in Sept I’ll be moving to Cambridge Digital Humanities as Professor of DH and Deputy Director. Excited for the new challenge, but also sad and thankful for the amazing colleagues I’m leaving.

It's taken a while, but there's now an Open Access version of an essay of mine (the publisher offered no route to OA, with or without embargo). Come and satisfy all your canon law history needs: 'Parliament and the law of the Church of England, 1943–74 peterwebster.wordpress.com/wp-content/u...

www.patheos.com/blogs/anxiou... News of the 2026 Evangelical Studies Program online conference. Join us!

Counting Evangelicals: A Major Online ConferenceI am happy to lend space today to announcing a major virtual conference of real general interest, organized by the Evangelical Studies Program at Baylorwww.patheos.com

As I have more time now for interesting things, I got this out and dusted it off a bit. websterresearchconsulting.com

Webster Research and ConsultingVisit the post for more.websterresearchconsulting.com

The University of Southampton Summer Art Exhibition "Exploration: Beyond Boundaries" is open! Come and see my art piece "Submerged Worlds" - tactile 3D-printed seascapes you can explore through touch as well as sight! 📍 Level 4 Gallery, Hartley Library 📅 3 June - 3 Aug More info: tiny.cc/adk4101

Can you hold a dataset in your hands? It turns out you can! In my latest post for Inside Digital Scholarship, I explore data physicalisation and show how GEBCO data can be turned into a tangible raised-relief globe. Read it here 👇 tinyurl.com/bak6m6jm #DataPhysicalisation #DigitalScholshi

New paper! By Naomi Korn, @smitakheria.bsky.social & me: "Orphan Works, Mass-Digitisation of Cultural Heritage, and Licensing Barriers: Lessons from the United Kingdom’s Experience" - how Brexit led to the deletion of @britishlibrary.bsky.social's Spare Rib resource or.niscpr.res.in/index.php/JI...

📢 Just over two weeks left to nominate your work or work you love for the 2026 Richard Deswarte Prize in Digital History ihrdighist.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2021/12/the-richard-deswarte-prize-in-digital-history/ #dhist

The 2026 Richard Deswarte Prize in Digital History - Digital History SeminarSUBMIT YOUR NOMINATION HERE BEFORE 31 MAY Richard Deswarte (1965-2021) was one of the founding convenors of the Digital History seminar at the Institute of Historical Research (IHR), University of Lon...ihrdighist.blogs.sas.ac.uk

@ryancordell.org on DHers who build 'technological imagination. Specific platforms, applications, and even coding languages come and go, but a technological imagination is able to abstract a problem—whether intellectual, professional, or personal—and formulate a plan' ryancordell.org/research/ane...

Anemoia, AI, and Skeuomorphism: The Material Turn in Digital Humanities | Ryan C. CordellBook history, digital humanities, old newspapers, and information sciencesryancordell.org

There's information about the kind of (small) projects I can help with, with examples, at websterresearchconsulting.com/services/

ServicesServing clients from across the UK, we focus on six key things. Understand With carefully designed and incisive research, we help our clients understand their stakeholders, and the wider environmen…websterresearchconsulting.com

Lib Dems control more English councils than the Conservative Party, the Green Party and Reform UK. Not that you'd know this from yesterday's coverage. The media's lack of curiosity and imagination and its inability to explore beyond the populist noise is as depressing as it is boringly predictable.

⏰ Just over a month remaining to submit your nominations for the Deswarte Prize in Digital History, the prize that celebrates the best of digital history internationally. Full info here: ihrdighist.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2021/12/the-... #dhist

The 2026 Richard Deswarte Prize in Digital History - Digital History SeminarSUBMIT YOUR NOMINATION HERE BEFORE 31 MAY Richard Deswarte (1965-2021) was one of the founding convenors of the Digital History seminar at the Institute of Historical Research (IHR), University of Lon...ihrdighist.blogs.sas.ac.uk

Did you know? If you like Gephi and find it useful, you can support us by making a small donation here: opencollective.com/gephi This allows the developers to meet more often to keep the software moving forward. Thank you to everyone who supports us! 🙏

Gephi - Open CollectiveWelcome to the Gephi collective platform! This is were you can support the project and help us maintain the infrastructure of our code and community.opencollective.com

‘Exploring Digital Cultural Heritage’ is now out in the wild! You can download an open-access copy (PDF) or read the free digital edition on Manifold uolpress.co.uk/book/explori.... Loved working on this with Eirini Goudarouli, @amsichani.bsky.social & the @uolpress.bsky.social team.

It's a good night to read this excellent piece, on the Orban regime's network of financial support for the nationalist right in Britain. For many on the radical right, the tills are about to stop ringing. democracyforsale.substack.com/p/orbans-brits

What happens to Britain's radical right if Orbán loses?Inside the money, power and patronage connecting Hungary and the British rightdemocracyforsale.substack.com

i hope the white house sends vance to campaign for Reform in britain

one immediate dramatic consequence of the Hungarian result: Magyar has promised to repair relations with the EU and unblock a €90bn EU loan for Ukraine

For almost a century generations of scholars and thinkers have tried to understand why the Germans sleepwalked into disaster. Future generations will focus on a different case.

New working paper out: "Open Maps: New Research Directions and Workflows for Digitized Historical Cartographic Material" led by Vincent Baptist & Jules Schoonman (TU Delft) #dh #maps openmapsmeeting.nl/publications...

Open Maps: New Research Directions and Workflows for Digitized Historical Cartographic MaterialOpen Maps Meeting: November 5 & 6 2024 at the Dutch National Archives and National Libraryopenmapsmeeting.nl

The use of impact factors in the evaluation of researchers has contributed to the distortion of scientific publishing practices and research practices, noted France's CNRS as it walked away from Web of Science, using $$$ saved to promote #OpenScience & #OpenData. www.cnrs.fr/en/update/cn...