Submitted on Tuesday 2nd March 2021
Rejected on Friday 19th March 2021
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: irrelevant (see below for details)
Facilitate full return of exhibits historically stolen from North East England
We want the British Library to, not just temporarily, but fully return the Lindisfarne Gospels & St. Cuthbert Gospel to an institution in the North East of England, and wish for Parliament or Gov to facilitate this happening.
The Sunday Times called the Lin. Gospels 'The book that made Britain', St. Cuthbert's Gospel is equally amazing, beautiful, and old. They ultimately should be appreciated by all the peoples of Britain, however to be fully appreciated they should be returned to the North East, from which they were historically stolen during the 1500s. Scotland, and all the peoples of Scotland, received the Stone of Scone back in 1996, 700 years after its theft in 1296. This is the only way to heal our Isles.
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
The return of an item from the collection of the British Library is a matter for the Trustees of the British Library, not the UK Government or Parliament.
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