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Peter Webster Aug 2, 2025

One novelist who wrote with particular interest in the clergy was A.S. Byatt. I've written about some of them in this set of three posts, and still haven't finished. peterwebster.me/tag/a-s-byatt/

A. S. Byatt – Webstory

A. S. Byatt – Webstory

On religious aspects of the novels of A.S. Byatt, and in particular her clergy.

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Peter Webster Jul 31, 2025

Some time back, I shifted my historical tooting across to Bluesky. That account is bridged to here now, so you can follow it at @peterwebster.bsky.social

Peter Webster Jul 31, 2025

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Peter Webster Jul 28, 2025

My own chapter is at link.springer.com/chapter/10.1... "Christian Readers in England and the Philosophy of Iris Murdoch, 1948-c.1982" It isn't Open Access, and is jolly expensive: ping me if you'd like the PDF by email.

Christian Readers in England a...

Christian Readers in England and the Philosophy of Iris Murdoch, 1948-c.1982

What did Christians in England make of Murdoch’s philosophical work in the years before the Gifford lectures of 1982 that were to become Metaphysics as a guide to morals? This chapter considers Christian reactions to Murdoch’s work, and in particular to...

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Peter Webster Jul 31, 2025

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...

Iris Murdoch and the clergy of...

Iris Murdoch and the clergy of the Church of England

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 …

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Peter Webster Jul 31, 2025

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Peter Webster Jul 31, 2025

I've had a lot of fun rereading this series, so here are a few of my favourites. First up, Mr Prendergast, who had Doubts (Evelyn Waugh) peterwebster.me/2017/05/27/e...

Evelyn Waugh’s modern churchma...

Evelyn Waugh’s modern churchman

Mr Prendergast, the hapless protagonist of Evely Waugh’s Decline and Fall (1928), is one of the more unusual clerical characters in this series. The majority of the men we have met so far are…

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Peter Webster Dec 28, 2024

At some point in the New Year, I shall be tooting about my historical work at @peterwebster.bsky.social rather than here. Do please follow/unfollow if you'd like to continue seeing my posts.

Peter Webster Dec 28, 2024

Ooh, a nice surprise: at long last, this article is published

Webster, Peter. “George Bell, the British Churches, and Emigré Artists from Nazi Europe, 1933-c.1957.” Anglican and Episcopal History 93, no. 4 (2024): 784–808. https://www.jstor.org/stable/27342457

Peter Webster Nov 18, 2024

The Christian Value Investor
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Christian Value Investor | Substack

Unprofessional investor in the UK, just trying to use well the capital entrusted to me. Not investment advice (as if!)

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Peter Webster Nov 18, 2024

@sgediting @[email protected] picking up an earlier conversation, this may be of interest

Peter Webster Nov 15, 2024

Postprint now available of a forthcoming essay:

'Reading the edited collection, distantly: some trends in British theological publishing in the twentieth century'

Religious history, history of education, book history, digital methods, #DH

https://peterwebster.me/2024/11/15/reading-the-edited-collection-distantly-some-trends-in-british-theological-publishing-in-the-twentieth-century/

Reading the edited collection, distantly: some trends in British theological publishing in the twentieth century

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 disc…

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