Introduction: The Web as History / Ralph Schroeder and Niels Brügger, 1
PART ONE: THE SIZE AND SHAPE OF WEB DOMAINS
1 Analysing the UK web domain and exploring 15 years of UK universities on the web / Eric T. Meyer, Taha Yasseri, Scott A. Hale, Josh Cowls, Ralph Schroeder and Helen Margetts, 23
2 Live versus archive: Comparing a web archive to a population of web pages / Scott A. Hale, Grant Blank and Victoria D. Alexander, 45
3 Exploring the domain names of the Danish web / Niels Brügger, Ditte Laursen and Janne Nielsen, 62
PART TWO: MEDIA AND GOVERNMENT
4 The tumultuous history of news on the web / Matthew S. Weber, 83
5 International hyperlinks in online news media / Josh Cowls and Jonathan Bright, 101
6 From far away to a click away: The French state and public services in the 1990s / Valérie Schafer, 117
PART THREE: CULTURAL AND POLITICAL HISTORIES
7 Welcome to the web: The online community of GeoCities during the early years of the World Wide Web / Ian Milligan, 137
8 Using the web to examine the evolution of the abortion debate in Australia, 2005– 2015 / Robert Ackland and Ann Evans, 159
9 Religious discourse in the archived web: Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury, and the sharia law controversy of 2008 / Peter Webster, 190
10 ‘Taqwacore is Dead. Long Live Taqwacore’ or punk’s not dead? Studying the online evolution of the Islamic punk scene / Meghan Dougherty, 204
11 Cultures of the UK web / Josh Cowls, 220
12 Coda: Web archives for humanities research – some reflections / Jane Winters, 238