Peter Webster / is on Nostr

Historian of modern/contemporary Christianity, mostly Britain and Ireland: theology, ecumenism, church/state/law; religious arts; publishing/media/technology; Anglicanism; evangelicalism; Anglo-Catholicism.

By day, a librarian now, slightly to my surprise.

(For digital things - libraries, archives, methods, policy, consultancy - see my other account @peterwebster )

Last Notes

2024-09-09 06:28:35

Arrived at the weekend, the printed copy of this. Among all my publications, I'm particularly pleased somehow by this one.
It's on Iris Murdoch and her Anglican clergy.
https://doi.org/10.1017/stc.2024.20
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2024-07-28 15:52:36

#reading Much here to ponder for a child of the Reformation such as me.
#oxfam #holidays
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2024-07-12 18:56:44

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@npub1d8f…ms3r "the circle is now complete"

2024-07-12 18:55:53

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It looks at British edited collections in theology from 1918 to the millennium, and shows: (i) a general volume growth; (ii) a rapid growth in women's voices but from a very low base; (ii) a shift to the universities, and (iv) a marked internationalization.

2024-07-12 18:46:55

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Happy to share the draft privately if folks want to get in touch.

2024-07-12 18:43:36

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(I should add that I'm not unblinding a peer review process here. It's a solicited contribution to, errm, an edited collection.)

2024-07-12 15:38:29

Article submitted: 'Reading the edited collection, distantly: trends in twentieth century British theological publishing.'

2024-05-27 06:48:21

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@npub1n02…56rc As it happens, the thing I'm struggling with this morning is perhaps within the interest of SHARP: it's looking at edited collections of essays as a way of thinking about scholarly networks.

2024-05-27 06:43:07

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@npub1n02…56rc no worries Jim! That article isn't due out for a while.

2024-05-27 06:32:50

Update: have reached the "why would anyone want to read this?" stage of writing. (It usually coincides with the hard work of getting to a complete first draft).

2024-05-23 12:03:20

Some good news this morning: new article published, in Studies in Church History:
"Vocation, Hypocrisy and Secularization: Iris Murdoch and the Clergy of the Church of England"
https://doi.org/10.1017/stc.2024.20
It isn't Open Access (yet): DM me if you'd like the PDF.

2024-05-22 19:39:58

Is a soggy Sunak not just the perfect symbol of the end having come? It would be an election-losing image on its own. Labour ought to put it on every single leaflet.