Orkney Archive - get dusty

  We are proud to announce that we now have a new display of archives about Deerness in the Library foyer and continuing upstairs in the ...

Golf is big news at the moment with Rory McIlroy winning the US Open on Sunday so we're celebrating by taking a look at the sport in Ork...

Following the sad news of the death of Donald Hewlett last week, I thought it fitting that we share some archives we have of him to thank hi...

Its that time of year again when you can hear the distant sounds of skirling, fiddling, strumming, drumming and humming in the air - yes tha...

As you've probably guessed, I'm a bit obsesssed with Pirates and so tend to spot anything related to them in any other records we ha...

We have a new archive display [Now over] in the Archive Searchroom! Its all about pirates and particularly Orkney's famous pirate John ...

Tonight's episode of Dr Who has prompted me to put up this document for you all to see about press-gangs in Orkney. It was found recentl...

We have now finished cataloguing the photocopies of this year's Fereday Prize projects. And what an interesting bunch of subjects this y...

Rejoice readers, your usual blogger archiver is now the proud mother of a very lovely daughter! We are all cock-a-hoop at this and wish them...

William Peace published an annual Almanac for a number of years and we hold editions from 1864 until 1940. They contain lots of useful infor...

The new trout season opened on 15 March and once again men and women all over Orkney dusted off their rods and tackle for the summer ahead. ...

First I must apologise for my attempt to keep the Smiths song titles link going from the last post. I'm hugely embarrased and obviously ...

In one of the collections we recently sorted through during our closure, we discovered this photograph of a very charming-looking man. He ha...

Our short stocktaking closure begins today. This is a far cry from the good old days when we closed for two weeks so, in an effort to appear...

Yes readers, after long and sterling service as our regular blogger archiver has finally succumbed to the strain and has been confined to ho...