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
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
And a slap in the face to foreign politicians who sought to influence the election. At last, some good news!
Massively important result.
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.
"We do not know who struck first, us or them. But we do know it was us that scorched the sky."
I keep checking the news to see "how the war is going". Then I remember: since there's no plan, no "progress" can be made. Silly me.
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...
Sadly I won't be able to attend this, but it looks very interesting.
Possibly the most interesting (and chastening) piece I've seen so far on the impact of tools like Claude Code on digital history:
"the fig leaf of methodological difficulty won’t cover a lack of interpretative results much longer"
lincolnmullen.com/blog/behind-...
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...
Having read the original Skinner article as an undergraduate a long time ago, this looks a very interesting book and not only for the digital method chapters (two).
Catching up on some very interesting digital history seminar recordings: first, this one on HTR and NER in early modern Irish manuscripts: a project at Trinity College Dublin: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QC0...
I may join you. I don't seem to be able to get churches to engage even with things written about them in particular.
There's information about the kind of (small) projects I can help with, with examples, at websterresearchconsulting.com/services/
Nominations for the 2026 Richard Deswarte Prize in Digital History are now open ihrdighist.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2021/12/the-... (closing date 31 May). You can submit your own work or recommend a book or article by someone else that you’ve loved reading.
I had the occasion to revisit that book for a conference paper recently, and saw no need to update the argument
I wrote about this effect in relation to edited collections back in 2020.
It's been a long time in the making, but here's the new Library Data Lab at Southampton, giving dataset and API access to digitised collections.
Currently in beta: all comments welcome.
Intro from my colleague Matt: southampton.cloud.panopto.eu/Panopto/Page...
Service datalab.library.soton.ac.uk
What is a Digital Humanities PhD?
Seminar with DH colleagues from Cambridge, Edinburgh, London and Manchester, open to all students or others considering a DH PhD at some point. Monday 9th March 2026, 16:30 GMT. Online only.
Register at: www.sas.ac.uk/digital-huma...
Everyone needs a librarian.
My chapter is 'Reading the edited collection, distantly: some trends in British theological publishing in the twentieth century', and there's a summary and an Open Access version at: peterwebster.me/2024/11/15/r...
A book entitled New Directions in Digital Textual Studies.
Look what arrived in the post, featuring an essay by yours truly.
Really, this has always been the real skill, long before the current situation arose.
They're all over our office
As I have more time now for interesting things, I got this out and dusted it off a bit.
websterresearchconsulting.com
This morning I find myself, for the first time in 22 years, committed neither to any publications nor any speaking engagements (on my research, that is). Not sure what to make of this.
I notice that Bluesky didn't like this image. If you'd like the details, drop me a line and I'll DM them directly.