Peter Webster - PhD in History Interview

Dr Peter Webster, Editorial Controller, British History Online

Peter completed his PhD at the University of Sheffield, and is now Editorial Controller of British History Online, and Manager of SAS-Space, the digital repository for the School of Advanced Study.

"This is probably an experience common to anywhere that doesn't have a copyright library, but I found myself travelling to London or Cambridge a good deal to fill in the gaps of material that one couldn't get to very easily. Most PhDs are clearly fairly niche investigations and so you're chasing very specialist periodicals or elderly material, so actually one did a good deal of travelling and spent a lot of time in the British Library. Certainly that aspect of it would be completely different if I was starting now because of the availability of electronic surrogates."

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