Orkney Archive - get dusty

Happy New Year to all our followers. We begin the year with a new mystery... The Palaeography Group have recently transcribed a document w...

Merry Christmas Eve dear readers! Surely, there are few sights more Christmassy than trees heavily-laden with snow. Today we bring you some ...

' Anyone who plants a tree has faith in the future', Bessie Skea in 'A Countrywoman's Diary' On Day 7, we quoted an...

George Mackay Brown from his Collected Poems  Margaret Tait Orkney Archive Reference D97/45/3/5/4

Just a couple of tree snippets today from our research this month: First of all, even the birds became concerned about the lack of forests...

'Amid shouts and yells in the darkness of Christmas Eve, the youths and men dragged north or south, as Fate decided, the 'Yule Log...

We have been looking back through the mists of time for the last 15 posts (as is our wont), but now let us whisk you into the future, Doc Br...

Orkney Herald dated 25th December 1935 An excerpt from the Orkney Herald today, in which the council discussed the removal of some trees...

Most of the archive staff are not Orkney-born and so we often ask our Very Orcadian Colleague to enlighten us when puzzled by local dialec...

 Tom Kent image negative no. 2461 Another 'big house' garden today. Papdale house stands in central Kirkwall behind its name...

So far, we have looked mainly at natural, ancient woodlands and 'big house' plantations in Orkney. The island does, however, have a ...

Today's post is a letter written to Orcadian historian John Mooney in 1925. The author is New York based business man, Adam H. Cormack, ...

Today we bring you a couple of vouchers for work carried out in 1838. Alexander S. Graham of Crantit paid William Crear 16 shillings at the ...

Still looking at trees planted around 'big houses', today we bring you Orkney Archive Reference D15/21/21 which includes a couple of...