Orkney Archive - get dusty

We have started a new group in the Orkney Archive. It is an informal group for folk who wish to practice their skills reading Secretary Scri...

When I was a child, a group of us met up every Friday night and pretended to be gnomes, pixies and elves. Some ladies were there and we all ...

A new post written by The Balfour Blogger: The Balfour papers contain many documents from the 17th century, dating back well over 300 yea...

It's a brand new year in the Orkney Archive and time to get down and dusty. Here are a group of regulars doing just that on Thursday nig...

Today our thoughts are with the people of the Island of Lewis over in the Western Isles who lost so many family and friends on the night of ...

Happy Christmas to you all dear readers! May your days be merry and bright! Read below for a description of Christmas Eve in Kirkwall exa...

Yet another reminder that many soldiers were yet to be demobilised by the end of December 1918.  "A Christmas Greeting frae the Front...

Orkney Archive Reference D51/3/8 - Click to enlarge One of the more visually satisfying archives is the collection of weather observat...

The sketch above was drawn in December 1918 by Lieutenant Jowsey, a colleague of Rev. Dr. T. Crouther Gordon, author of Early Flying In ...

After years of food restriction, drills and danger, the crews aboard the Grand Fleet enjoyed a magnificent Christmas meal and exchanged yet ...

A similar post to last Monday - Stromness Town Cuncil had a meeting 100 years ago today. Among the topics discussed were: the continued insi...

Some letters received by Highland Park, whisky distillers today. Most of the folder we looked through contained orders from businesses and o...

100 years ago today, Orkney County Council held their AGM. Towards the end of the meeting, they discussed the need to petition the admiralty...

100 years ago today, Orcadian poet and marine naturalist Robert Rendall received the letter below from Mrs Alexander McKenzie of Stornoway,...

Today's post continues with the German ships interned in Scapa Flow from the end of 1918. The Orkney Archive holds a typewritten memoir ...