A new member for the NISE network
The Scottish Political Archive (SPA) has joined the NISE network of research and heritage institutes.
The NISE network from now on also has a member from Scotland: the Scottish Political Archive. The SPA was established in October 2010 at the University of Stirling, as part of the Special Collections. The institute was launched to collect political materials and archives from Scottish politicians and political organisations, including ephemeral materials and oral history interviews. It already contains materials on Scottish nationalism from the archive of Bruce Watson, who was chairman of the Scottish National Party (SNP) from1945 to 1947; also, the Scots Independent newspaper has made available its photographic archives dating back from the 1960’s.