The Scottish Catholic Historical Association was founded in 1950 by a group of clergy and laity who wished to place Scottish Catholic history in the mainstream of historical research. Conferences, lectures, publications and the invaluable journal of the association - The Innes Review - have successfully achieved this goal set out almost 60 years ago.
There has been a long association between the Scottish Catholic Historical Association and the Scottish Catholic Archives, with successive staff taking an active role in the association.