Call to save Roman Catholic heritage in Scotland

Thanks to genie Chris Halliday (@scotsgen) for tweeting that the Scotsman newspaper has today published a call from several leading academics to stop the Roman Catholic church in Scotland disposing of some of its archive collection to raise a bit of cash for a new centralised heaquarters building.

I blogged about the story previously at http://britishgenes.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/scottish-catholic-heritage-to-be-sold.html, following the ordering of a valuation by Archbishop Mario Conti, president of the Scottish Catholic Heritage Commission, to see what they could raise if they went for it. The original announcement prompted a response from Tom Devine (academic royalty in Scotland!), describing the move as "asset stripping". The Scotsman's article today is at www.scotsman.com/scotland-on-sunday/scotland/letter-academics-unite-to-guard-church-archive-1-2194806#.T28awqgYMNI.twitter.

Chris

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