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Orkney Archive Reference SC11/5/1826/66 For anti-slavery day we took a look through the catalogue to find the few mentions we remembere...

Published poetry collections can be found in the Orkney Room Regular Radio Orkney listeners will have heard poems by Margaret Tait bei...

The 13th instalment of our "Orkney at War" Exhibition is now available to see in the Archive Public Searchroom. [All images and te...

We were most amused to read this account of liquored-up bees: Orkney Herald - 24th February 1897  How on earth does a bumble-...

Dusty and I began our morning when our Very Orcadian Colleague invited us to inspect these fantastic photos. He often brings through exampl...

Oh Glenn Mederios, is anything, ever going to change our love for you? Certainly not the fact that you went to university after your chart s...

It is time for another post from our redoubtable Balfour Blogger. This one covers sea-faring,  packing for said faring and smelly, 18th Cent...

We have blogged before about our passive - aggressive relationships with certain TV shows. Sometimes one nit picks because one loves a perso...

It is, as I am sure you are all aware, World Milk Day today. Up here, the supermarkets stock delicious local milks, creams and cheeses and t...

Happy 'Aald Beltin' dear readers! According to our beloved Ernest Walker Marwick , the Old Beltane or May Day used to fall, by our c...

Today is the 150th Anniversary of the death of Samuel Laing of Papdale, who died in Edinburgh on 23rd April 1868.   Samuel Laing was ...

Why, shucks, and many thanks to Bath Record Office staff for voting for us in their poll of favourite Archives. I'd like to thank my...

The 12th instalment of our "Orkney at War" Exhibition is now available to see downstairs on the blue carpeted wall in the Library ...