Relocating Catholic archive will be a setback to research
Your coverage of the Catholic bishops' plan to relocate the historical collections of the Scottish Catholic Archives at Columba House in Edinburgh to Aberdeen and Glasgow is greatly welcome ("New move in archive row", The Herald, July 20 & Letters, July 20 and 21).
Your coverage of the Catholic bishops' plan to relocate the historical collections of the Scottish Catholic Archives at Columba House in Edinburgh to Aberdeen and Glasgow is greatly welcome (\"New move in archive row\", The Herald, July 20 & Letters, July 20 and 21).
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The move has been determined with an extraordinary lack of consultation with the growing number of scholars who use this resource, of whom I and my students are some. Indeed, Dundee University had offered to undertake a Collaborative Doctoral Research Award with the archives.
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Relocating Catholic archive will be a setback to research
Your coverage of the Catholic bishops' plan to relocate the historical collections of the Scottish Catholic Archives at Columba House in Edinburgh to Aberdeen and Glasgow is greatly welcome ("New move in archive row", The Herald, July 20 & Letters, July 20 and 21).
The move has been determined with an extraordinary lack of consultation with the growing number of scholars who use this resource, of whom I and my students are some. Indeed, Dundee University had offered to undertake a Collaborative Doctoral Research Award with the archives.
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