Jane Winters

Jane Frances Winters FRHistS is Professor of digital humanities at the School of Advanced Study, University of London.[1][2]

Life and career

Jane Winters was born in 1970. She trained as a medieval historian and completed her PhD at King's College London in 1999.[3] Her doctoral thesis was entitled The Forest Eyre, 1154-1368.[4]

Winters is a Director of the Digital Preservation Coalition,[5] and a Fellow and Council Member of the Royal Historical Society. She is a member of the Academic Steering and Advocacy Committee of the Open Library of Humanities.[6][7][8] She is a member of the UK UNESCO Memory of the World Committee.[9]

Selected publications
  • 'Negotiating the archives of UK web space', The Historical Web and Digital Humanities: the Case of National Web Domains, ed. Niels Brügger and Ditte Laursen (London: Routledge, 2019)
  • ‘Web archives and (digital) history: a troubled past and a promising future?’, in The SAGE Handbook of Web History, ed. Niels Brügger and Ian Milligan (SAGE Publications Ltd., 2019)
  • 'Digital history’, in Debating New Approaches to History, ed. Marek Tamm and Peter Burke (London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2018)
  • ‘What does an author want from a publisher?’, Learned Publishing, 31 (4) (September 2018), pp. 318-22
  • Tackling complexity in humanities big data: from parliamentary proceedings to the archived web, in Big and Rich Data in English Corpus Linguistics: Methods and Variations, ed. Turo Hiltunen, Joe McVeigh and Tanja Säily (Helsinki: Varieng, 2017)
  • 'Breaking in to the mainstream: demonstrating the value of internet (and web) histories', Internet Histories. Digital Technology, Culture and Society, Volume 1, 2017, Issue 1-2
  • ‘Will history survive the digital age?’, BBC History Magazine (March 2017), pp. 39-43
  • The Creighton century, 1907-2007. Institute of Historical Research, London, 2009. ISBN 9781905165339 (ed. with David Bates and Jennifer Wallis)
  • Peer review and evaluation of digital resources for the arts and humanities. London, 2006. (co-authored report)
  • Teachers of history in the universities of the UK and the Republic of Ireland (published annually) (joint compiler)
  • Historical research for higher degrees in the UK and the Republic of Ireland (published annually) (joint compiler)
  • "The British history online digital library: A model for sustainability?", Bulletin, 176 (2010), 95–106. (with Jonathan Blaney)

See also

References
  1. School of Advanced Study reaffirms commitment to digital research. Matthew Reisz, Times Higher Education Supplement, 8 January 2015. Retrieved 8 February 2016.
  2. Professor Jane Winters. School of Advanced Study. Retrieved 3 February 2017.
  3. Winters, Jane Frances. The forest eyre, 1154-1368. Thesis (PhD) University of London 1999.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location (link)
  4. The forest eyre, 1154-1368. History Online. Retrieved 8 February 2016.
  5. Jane Frances WINTERS. Companies House. Retrieved 6 February 2016.
  6. Council members. Royal Historical Society. Retrieved 3 February 2017.
  7. "Professor Jane Winters | School of Advanced Study". research.sas.ac.uk. Retrieved 30 May 2019.
  8. Editorial team. Open Library of Humanities. Retrieved 3 February 2017.
  9. "Professor Winters joins UNESCO's UK Memory of the World Committee". School of Advanced Study. 5 July 2017. Retrieved 30 May 2019.


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