Jane Winters


Jane Frances Winters FRHistS is Professor of digital humanities and director of the Digital Humanities Research Hub at the School of Advanced Study, University of London.
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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. Her doctoral thesis, The Forest Eyre, 1154-1368, was directed by David Carpenter.
Winters is 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. She is a member of the UK UNESCO Memory of the World Committee. In December 2023 she was elected as the sixth Chair of the Digital Preservation Coalition.

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
  • ‘Web archives and history: a troubled past and a promising future?’, in The SAGE Handbook of Web History, ed. Niels Brügger and Ian Milligan
  • 'Digital history’, in Debating New Approaches to History, ed. Marek Tamm and Peter Burke
  • ‘What does an author want from a publisher?’, Learned Publishing, 31, 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
  • 'Breaking in to the mainstream: demonstrating the value of internet histories', Internet Histories. Digital Technology, Culture and Society, Volume 1, 2017, Issue 1-2
  • ‘Will history survive the digital age?’, BBC History Magazine, pp. 39-43
  • The Creighton century, 1907-2007. Institute of Historical Research, London, 2009.
  • Peer review and evaluation of digital resources for the arts and humanities. London, 2006.
  • Teachers of history in the universities of the UK and the Republic of Ireland
  • Historical research for higher degrees in the UK and the Republic of Ireland
  • "The British history online digital library: A model for sustainability?", Bulletin, 176, 95–106.