Angus Johnson
Angus Johnson is an Archives Assistant, and has been working in Shetland Archives since 1989. He was young then. Most of his work is to do with audio material.
Articles written by Angus Johnson
Sumburgh airport in the log books (1958 - 2010)
Archives assistant, Angus Johnson, has been working with our collection of Sumburgh airport movement logs (D1/236, 1958-2010). They ...
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The Home Guard
One day Brian Smith, archivist, was walking along King Harald Street. He met someone whose late husband had been a key actor in the ...
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Who was Janet Courtney?
It’s that time in August now, the new school term is near, new experiences, people, and challenges. For many Shetland children, a ...
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Memories of VE Day 80 years ago
The eighth of May is the eightieth anniversary of the Victory in Europe. Plans for the seventy-fifth anniversary in 2020 were largely ...
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Explore Thomas Irvine's sheep book on our online archive catalogue. Woollies - this is one for you!
Wool Week is upon us, posters have been printed, the annuals (thousands) are being packed and sent off, and visitors (a lot) have ...
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Marion Ninianson’s Roup
Roup is a word not commonly used in Shetland any more, although the Shetland Times in 1962 advertised a house in Scalloway “for sale ...
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Be My Valentine
It’s that time of year, Valentine’s Day, the 14th of February. In the Shetland Archives Catalogue references to Valentines are ...
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The Eyjarskeggjar
The images of Up Helly Aa go like this – the burning longship, arms and armour, and bearded men. The present Jarl Richard Moar has ...
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Shetland's War Memorial - constructed by William Horne
Shetland’s War Memorial on Hillhead is now one hundred years old, and was rededicated with a ceremony on 6 January. The memorial ...
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Christmas in Shetland - 1923
1923, like many of the years between the wars, was not a good one. The Shetland Times year end report spoke of a poor herring fishing, ...
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Alanbrooke and the Kearton Brothers
When archivist Angus Johnson started to read through his copy of Alanbrooke's War Diaries, he did some digging in the archives to see ...
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Memories from the archives
Grace Leask (née Mouat) shared her memories of time spent as a gutter lass in Shetland.
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The Coronation
The Coronation of 2 June 1953 is a long way away now, in a vastly different world and culture. True, a major war was going on, but the ...
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A tribute to Ian Bairnson
Ian Bairnson, who died on 7 April, was certainly one of the more remarkable people from Shetland, born here on 3 August 1953.
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Love letters from the past
Since we’ve got to St Valentine’s Day the time has come to consider the Shetland Archives holdings on the subject of love. Do we ...
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