Orkney Archive - get dusty

OPEN, ORKNEY ROOM and ODD THINGS Keen observers may have noticed we have skipped a week. This was due to our inability to see the screen thr...

The archives gang are breaking up! (sob) The Fonds is leaving! Having selfishly allowed himself to age into retirement, he shall exit the b...

  NEW YEAR Happy New Year lovely readers! Some of you will be going through your third lockdown and are probably sick of the sight of your o...

MATERIALS SCIENCE   When you visit the Archive Searchroom you will be offered gloves to wear or the option of washing your hands with soapy...

  LONESOME (AND LATE) TEA BREAKS Look at this picture readers. You may think it is a store-cupboard but no, this has been the archive staff ...

KIRKWALL Kirkwall is where we are, the great metropolis of Orkney. Home of a cathedral, two palaces, a ghost of a castle and our stupendous ...

  JOLLY REUNIONS Never mind the long rumoured Friends reunion, the best reconnections this year have been with Orkney Archive and their visi...

I SOLATION During the UK Lockdown from March 2020, all the staff in the Orkney Archive were separated. The Fonds and I carried on working bu...

  HANDS (THE CLEANSING OF) Dusty has already explained  that visitors to the archive are asked to wear stylish green gloves when handling th...

GLOVES Green gloves in particular for us. Here is Archiver modelling them: Gloves have become an important part of our day. We once only don...

  FACE MASKS We offer books, maps, census material, photographs and documents dating from the 1400s but the main pull of the Orkney Archive ...

ENQUIRIES Throughout the lonely weeks of Lockdown and the gradual re-awakening of services, Archive staff have been diligently answering enq...

  DANCING Charleston Dance Diagram by Andy Warhol  DON'T take your partner by the hand Keep your distance, touching's banned! Two co...

CLEANING Every day we are open we are cleaning especially for you, dear public. Before and after each booking, we clean the table and the ch...