This link explains a little more:
http://timesonline.typepad.com/dons_life/2010/01/university-cuts-redundancies-and-byebye-palaeography.html
Abigail Ann Young wrote:
> Dear friends,
>
> I just received this troubling message by way of the Pontifical
> Institute mailing list. I would especially urge colleagues who are in
> the UK to write in protest of this decision.
>
> Abigail
>
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Fw: Paleography to be eliminated at King's College London
> Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2010 09:55:46 -0500
> From: Barbara North <[log in to unmask]>
> Organisation: University of Toronto
> To: Barbara North <[log in to unmask]>
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> *From:* Aden Kumler <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
> *To:* Barbara North <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
> *Sent:* Saturday, January 30, 2010 12:01 PM
> *Subject:* Paleography to be eliminated at King's College London
>
>
> Dear Barbara,
>
> would you please send the message below to the PIMS mailing list. It
> concerns a grave situation at King's College London that will be of
> pressing concern to the PIMS community.
>
> Dear Colleagues,
>
> Please see below an email from Jeffrey Hamburger, and a letter forwarded
> by him, that together summarize the terrible news regarding the
> elimination of the Chair in Paleography at King's College London (the
> only endowed chair in paleography in the UK) as part of a larger
> financial re-organization scheme.
>
> I hope you will take a few minutes to write a letter asserting that the
> teaching of paleography is essential for the future of medieval studies
> and to strongly urge Professor Rick Trainor, the Principal of King's
> College, to revisit the (terrible) decision that has been taken. Please
> do not delay: time is of the essence!
>
> Letters should be sent to Professor Trainor and copied to Professor Jan
> Palmowski, Head of the School of Arts and Humanities. The relevant
> mailing addresses are provided in the last line below.
>
> With my best wishes,
> Aden Kumler
>
>
> _Forwarded message from Jeffrey Hamburger:_
>
> Dear colleagues,
> The letter below brings bad news. I normally do not leap into such
> petition drives, but in this case I think it behooves all of us to read
> it and to act on it by writing a stiff letter of protest to the persons
> named as quickly as possible. If you, in turn, know of other groups
> (beyond Apices, whence this comes) to which this could be circulated,
> please do so immediately.
>
> Yours, Jeffrey Hamburger
>
>
> King’s College London is undertaking what they call ‘strategic
> disinvestment’ and have informed our colleague, David Ganz, on Tuesday
> that funding for the Chair in Palaeography will cease from 31 August
> this year, when David will be out of a job. This is part of a wider
> context whereby all academic staff in the School of Arts and Humanities
> at King’s have to re-apply for their own jobs before the 1st March. They
> think this the “most humane way” of losing 22 academic posts.
>
> King’s Chair is the only established chair in Palaeography in the UK
> (held by our late members Julian Brown and Tilly de la Mare). I am,
> naturally, writing on behalf of the Comite to express dismay at the loss
> of the Chair but the more people who write in protest the better.
>
> Please write to Professor Rick Trainor, The Principal, King’s College,
> The Strand, London WC2R 2LS and copy to Professor Jan Palmowski, Head of
> the School of Arts and Humanities.
>
>
>
>
> Aden Kumler
> Assistant Professor
> Department of Art History
> University of Chicago
> 266 Cochrane Woods Art Center
> 5540 South Greenwood Avenue
> Chicago, IL 60637
> tel: 773.702.0266 / fax: 773.702.5901
>
>
>
>
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