Peter Webster s blog
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 a source of Continue reading
Though it appeared last year, I realise that I did not post here about an article looking at Iris Murdoch s treatment of the Anglican clergy in her novels. As always, Studies is themed, this time around questions of hypocrisy and Continue reading
Regular readers will know of my enthusiasm for the edited collection of essays as (when done well) a unique means of gathering a diverse group of scholars around a particular question. I m therefore delighted to see the release of just Continue reading
Part of my responsibilities in the Hartley Library at the University of Southampton is building up the digital collections of the Library, which are made available in the Digital Viewer. Not all that much of those collections relates to my Continue reading
From time to time churches decide that their liturgies need to be revised. Such revisions are rarely easy, since the religious life for many people depends on familiarity: on having access to a kind of meditation that repetition over a Continue reading
A new article of mine has just appeared in the journal Anglican and Episcopal History. It is available in JSTOR, and so is accessible both to subscribers and to non-subscribers after creating a (free) JSTOR account. George Bell, the British Continue reading
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 discourse organise themselves. In 2020 I published Continue reading
In recent months I ve had occasion to look at the lives of several Anglican women of the last century or so, for possible inclusion in a biographical dictionary. Many of these names have been overlooked by historians (or at least Continue reading
To regular readers of this blog, this will appear as a normal post. But thanks to a significant move by Automattic (the people behind wordpress.com who host this blog), it can now be read directly by users of Mastodon and Continue reading
I really didn t want to write this post. The grim sound of the Anglican churches tearing themselves to pieces over human sexuality has been a constant through the quarter-century over which I have studied the history of those churches, yet Continue reading