Orkney Archive - get dusty

Today is the 75th Anniversary of the opening of  the Churchill Barriers. D52/4_007 They were officially opened by First Lord of the Ad...

Our last post has inspired our group and other researchers to try different sources and find more information about James Keith and the jew...

A recent addition to our collection is this little booklet all about the parish of Orphir. It was made to accompany a photographic exhibitio...

The documents transcribed in the last two blog-posts leave us these questions: 1. Where did the jewels come from? 2. Why were they in Orkn...

There are three supporting documents with the Inventory of the Iron Box of Jewels we showed you in the first blogpost. Here are their transc...