The Scottish Catholic Archives website at www.scottishcatholicarchives.org.uk has been updated to provide a source list for those researching Scottish Canadian Catholic heritage, with the connection first established following the settlement of Highland Scots in Nova Scotia in 1772. The Edinburgh based SCA has many useful resources including letters concerning such emigrants, so the source list may well be of immense use - find it directly at www.scottishcatholicarchives.org.uk/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=4IV7Jn3uuGQ%3d&tabid=270.
The Scottish Catholic Archives has also now joined both Twitter and Facebook - for Twitter visit @ScotCathArch and on Facebook visit www.facebook.com/ScottishCatholicArchives
(With thanks to Andrew Nicoll)
Chris
http://www.scotsman.com/scotland-on-sunday/scotland/fears_of_asset_stripping_as_church_plans_artefacts_sale_1_2152444
ReplyDeleteFears of ‘asset stripping’ as Church plans artefacts sale
By STEPHEN MCGINTY
Published on Sunday 4 March 2012 00:00
THE Catholic Church is considering selling off valuable historical artefacts to help fund a new £4 million Scottish national headquarters after the property crash left it out of pocket.
Mario Conti, the Archbishop of Glasgow, instructed the Scottish Catholic Archives to compile a list of the rarest and most valuable items in the Church’s collection and find out their potential value at auction.
In what one historian yesterday described as “asset-stripping”, the Church is considering the sale of items such as a 16th-century book of hours – an illuminated manuscript of prayers and psalms belonging to the Catholic Mary, Queen of Scots – to raise up to £1.5m.