Orkney Archive - get dusty

  Orkney Archive Reference D2/7/3 - Undated sketch chart for soundings at Stromness Harbour  UPDATE: We've had some thoughts about the a...

 Well. This is just extremely pleasing... (click to enlarge) Orkney Archive Reference D2/7/3 - Undated sketch chart for soundings at Stromne...

  It is volunteers week and this gives us a chance to celebrate our wonderful band of helpers without whom, the archives would be so much po...

We don't know about you readers, but we have already cellophaned our platters of coronation chicken sandwiches and coronation quiche , ...

  This is our earliest document, it is a disposition by Magnus Andro and Jonet Magnus of ½ penny land in Wasbister in Holm to John Mason and...

Continued from yesterday. Researched and written by guest blogger Fiona Sanderson:  ‘Finding Dr Garvie’ and reconstructing the photographs. ...

  Researched and written by guest blogger Fiona Sanderson: Last year I wrote a first blog for the Archive: ‘In Search of Doctor Garvie’ . ...

  Guest Blogpost by Nela Scholma-Mason Skull in a basket. Drawing by Nela Scholma-Mason If you enjoy a suspenseful Gothic short story, you ...

Some of our Palaeography Group recently discovered a letter in the Walter Traill-Dennison Collection (Reference number D14) which was addre...