Angus Johnson

Angus Johnson is an Archives Assistant, and has been working in Shetland Archives since 1989. Most of his work is to do with audio material.

Unveiling the Shetland War Memorial, 6 January 1924

November 10th 2020

The eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month, the time of the armistice that ended the Great War. Remembrance in ...

August 14th 2020

VJ Day (Victory Over Japan) has never been as important a celebration as VE Day, but for some people in Shetland it was a very ...

June 12th 2020

Captain Lawrence Irvine of Bridge of Walls was one of the few Shetlanders to enter the West Indies Trade in the late 1700’s, a trade ...

May 20th 2020

Today, a rather special one, John Alexander Cruickshank, has his hundredth birthday. He is now the last living Victoria Cross holder ...

May 8th 2020

Shetland took the news of the end of the war in Europe in much the same way as the rest of Britain, a mixture of relief, reflection, ...

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