Orkney Archive - get dusty

We know much about Beatrice Garvie, who was doctor on North Ronaldsay in the 1930’s and 40's. See  In Search of Beatrice Garvie  to find...

Our team of volunteers have been hard at work sifting through the bundles of documents in the Balfour of Balfour & Trenaby papers. They ...

New post by Guest Blogger: Joan Barrett Part One: When I read on Facebook an invitation to volunteer for work on the LIFTE project from the...

  Four Photos from the Tom Kent Collection sent me on a journey of discovery to find out more about this man, Charles Millot. In July 2021 w...

 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...