31st July 2008, 05:44 PM
Hah! It was the school holidays after all! Tellt ye!
I think there are good and sound reasons for having both CBA and AS. CBA always had a regional framework, and the post-devolution reality is that there is a separate and increasingly-powerful political entity in Scotland. AS is there to lobby on Scottish archaeology's behalf to Holyrood, as CBA does to Westminster. An interesting question (to me, anyway) is whether CBA Wales is showing similar separatist tendencies in response to the Welsh devolution settlement?
I'm sure that it probably is all unnecessarily complicated, RedEarth, and would indeed look daft in a venn diagram, but that's life and semi-federal constitutional fudges for you. Thanks for the clip though!
Brian
I think there are good and sound reasons for having both CBA and AS. CBA always had a regional framework, and the post-devolution reality is that there is a separate and increasingly-powerful political entity in Scotland. AS is there to lobby on Scottish archaeology's behalf to Holyrood, as CBA does to Westminster. An interesting question (to me, anyway) is whether CBA Wales is showing similar separatist tendencies in response to the Welsh devolution settlement?
I'm sure that it probably is all unnecessarily complicated, RedEarth, and would indeed look daft in a venn diagram, but that's life and semi-federal constitutional fudges for you. Thanks for the clip though!
Brian