Orkney Archive - get dusty

 Today marks 80 years since VE day - the end of WWII hostilities in Europe. Listen below to weel kent* Orcadian Brigadier S P Robertson as h...

  Please do not come to the library on Monday the 5th as we will be closed. We are pretending it is because of the public holiday. We are ac...

  Photo L9670/1 [388.342], by Ian Tulloch, from our Copy Collection L9477/2 [551.645] It’s been a beautiful morning in Orkney, the sky...

To celebrate we share with you some heartfelt words of love written in a letter in 1808. The letter is written by Mary, Mrs William Balfour,...

 Many apologies dear researchers, the archive search room and Orkney room will be CLOSED tomorrow -Saturday 1st of February. We shall be ope...

  No, it’s not a description of how we are all feeling as we plough on through the seventy third day of January, but a headline from the fro...

 Another day, another fascinating document... Today we found this 1801 parish assistance form pictured below:   Return by Persons unable by ...

 It is that time of year when buildings, organisations, artists and many other interesting people throw open their doors and bid a hearty we...

Written by The Balfour Blogger #3 Thomas Balfour was elected as Conservative MP for Orkney and Shetland in 1835, thanks to a hard-fought cam...

  Much as we love your faces, please do not come into the archive on Monday 6th of May as we are CLOSED. We plan to spend the entire day lik...

 We often put up a post when we come across an item which has not seen the light of day for a long time and we think deserves  a bit of atte...

 February was a very sad month for Orcadians as they lost two very well kent folk. Billy Jolly was a folk festival stalwart and Dave Gray wa...

The Orkney Archive Palaeography Group have recently transcribed this beautiful document which is a disposition written for Magnus Baikie tra...