Orkney Archive - get dusty

 We often put up a post when we come across an item which has not seen the light of day for a long time and we think deserves  a bit of atte...

 February was a very sad month for Orcadians as they lost two very well kent folk. Billy Jolly was a folk festival stalwart and Dave Gray wa...

The Orkney Archive Palaeography Group have recently transcribed this beautiful document which is a disposition written for Magnus Baikie tra...

I just love this letter which I found in the Balfour Papers recently.  The phonetic spelling of the words give a glimpse of the sound of thi...

Aah Christmas.  That time of year where we lowly archive workers dust off our tinsel, string up some lights and overindulge in all things mi...

 All organised for Christmas readers? Neither are we! Fear not for we have the perfect present for that hard to buy for relative or acquaint...

 What is more Christmassy than a snowy picture? We have many lovely examples in the photographic archive, some of which can be seen below. I...

  You may remember us tooting upon our own trumpets a few years ago dear readers when we were first given accredited archive status? Well ...

Bessie Grieve, AKA 'Countrywoman' We have been working hard at digitising our wonderful sound archive to make it more accessible and...

For the Orkney Vintage Rally this year, I was asked to create an exhibition of Archive photographs of Royal Visits to Orkney. The photos I c...