In these testing times, we are proud to be able to share the news that Mapping the Scottish Reformation is one of several recipients of a Strathmartine Trust Award.
The Award will support Stage Two of the pilot phase of MSR, during which we will further explore ways to visualise and manipulate our initial dataset. Stage Two is a critical moment in the growth of our project that will allow us to establish the feasibility of appropriate technologies/techniques to query and map our data. Ultimately, we hope to develop a test version of an interactive map that traces clerical social networks in the Synod of Lothian and Tweeddale between 1560 and 1689. This is the “proof of concept” stage—a crucial step before moving to gathering data on the clergy from other regions of Scotland.
The Strathmartine Trust offers a range of grants and awards to projects addressing the history of Scotland and the Scottish people. The Trust was established by the late Dr Ronald Cant to encourage and support the study of all periods of Scottish history, continuing the work to which he devoted most of his life.
We are very grateful to the Trustees of the Strathmartine Trust for their faith in MSR and for appreciating this as a key moment for our project. We should also like to thank everyone who has shown such support and generosity in watching MSR’s development to date. We hope to share more with you as we move into this next stage of our work.
