Suggestions

Hi Kelly,

This is a beefy page already and you've set yourself up to go into a lot of detail on a really complicated topic. Well done!

• You mention in your introduction that faith-based archives range in size and scope. I think mentioning some examples either in your introduction or early in your history section could be helpful to bring that wide range into focus. Where are faith-based archives? Where have they been kept previously? Where do they get transferred? Are they always in the custody of faith professionals? I think the relationship between where faith-based archives are kept/by who and the material itself is an important one in this context. Apologies, you may already have plans for your introduction, but I think it's a little thin as it stands—but maybe this would be a good jumping off for building it up, and communicating the complexity, diversity, and great interest in these archives from the very get-go.
• I'd like to know more about untrained archivists doing archival work in faith-based archives. Maybe this could fit into the history section (maybe you already have it planned out) or the 'lack of resources' subsection. I think it's worth noting that priests, for example, have been responsible for record-keeping (historically and present-day). Who does/has played the role of archivist in religious communities?

Hi Amy,

Thanks for the feedback. I've added a bit more to my introduction and the history section. If you have any thoughts on this, I mention and later explore both the Hindu Archive Project and JAHSENA in my case studies but I mention the archives of the East London Mosque in the introduction as an example of small in-house archives but I don't have a case study for it. I'm not sure about this, just because there is no follow-up. I will explore the issue of where religious archives are kept a bit more in the "Custody of records" section.

I've included more about religious officials in the lack of resources subsection. I've included one example of a Methodist archivist and I might include more later.

Kelly

I think those added details work really well!