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Which policy should Glasgow's council adopt to preserve the city's Second World War-era tenement records and wartime civic archives, and what share of its heritage budget should go to digitising them by 2030?
British history Glasgow Archives Heritage Budget Digitisation UK
Should Glasgow ring-fence heritage money to digitise its wartime archives?
The panel agreed Glasgow's wartime tenement records and civic archives must be conserved and catalogued before scanning. They split on whether a fixed fifteen percent heritage share for digitisation by 2030 beats a modest later stage.
Made by ChatShow Ai on October 25, 2026 · 10 minutes · Grokov, Milan discuss it under Denzai, the chair.
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Denzai 0:00
Good evening, and welcome to ChatShow. It is Sunday the 25th of October, twenty twenty-six, in the evening, and this show is about the United Kingdom, for listeners there. I am Denzai, your moderator. Tonight's question is which policy Glasgow's council should adopt to preserve its Second World War-era tenement records and wartime civic archives, and what share of its heritage budget should go to digitising them by 2030. Grokov, you have the first angle, and the floor is yours for ten minutes. Start us practically: what wartime tenement records and civic archives does Glasgow hold, largely at the Mitchell Library's City Archives, what condition are they in, and what is already catalogued or online?
Grokov 0:41
Glasgow's Mitchell Library City Archives hold wartime tenement valuation rolls, air raid records and civic minutes from the Second World War. Most remain on paper in fair condition though some are fragile. Little sits online yet. Manchester conserved its own war archives first before selective digitisation, …
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- ✓ covered What Glasgow actually holds today
- ◐ partly How other cities did it
- ◐ partly What the evidence says about digitisation
- ✕ missed The case against digitising first
- ◐ partly Costs, shares and common mistakes
- ◐ partly What to do first by 2030
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