Orkney & Shetland

First published in 1973 by the Hogarth Press, Magnus is George Mackay Brown's tour de...

Orkney, 1941. Five hundred Italian prisoners of war arrive to fortify these wild and...

From the Early Neolithic farm at Knap of Howar to the flamboyant chapel built by...

Using in-depth knowledge of the connections between the cosmology and linguistics of...

For much of its history, Orkney had its own language, culture and institutions. The...

When Second World War bombs start falling, twelve-year-old Eilidh Flett is evacuated to...

"The place where the German U-boat sank the British battleship Royal Oak was none other...

The medieval earldoms of Orkney and Caithness were positioned between two worlds, the...

A worthy companion to the author's Old Shetland.

Based on the extensive collection of old photographs and postcards gathered over the...

Shetland became a possession of Scotland in 1469. The introduction of this book details...

The Orkney archipelago is home to a remarkable array of prehistoric sites most notably...