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Keep up to date with new stories and details of what our researchers are doing to preserve and promote Shetland's heritage and culture.
Keep up to date with new stories and details of what our researchers are doing to preserve and promote Shetland's heritage and culture.
The eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month, the time of the armistice that ended the Great War. Remembrance in ...
Read moreThe Shetland Community would like to express its support by sending a peerie hansel (gift) from home to the estimated 400 students ...
Read moreVJ Day (Victory Over Japan) has never been as important a celebration as VE Day, but for some people in Shetland it was a very ...
Read moreWe are delighted to see the launch of this beautiful Fair Isle Shetland jumper as part of clothing company TOAST new autumn ...
Read moreArchivist Brian Smith retells the story of cousins Peter and Olla, two very different characters, who met one notable New Year's eve. ...
Read moreThe Shetland Museum and Archives plans to reopen to the public on Thursday 16th July with a new booking system and measures in place ...
Read moreIn December 1883, Lerwick Man James Teit emigrated to Canada where he lived and worked with indigenous communities, listening and ...
Read moreCaptain 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 ...
Read moreThe death of George Floyd has prompted a global outpouring of grief and anger that we, as an integral part of society, cannot ignore. ...
Read moreArchivist Brian Smith delves into the incredible story of his ten-times great grandfather the accomplished and unruly Ninian Neven. ...
Read moreToday, a rather special one, John Alexander Cruickshank, has his hundredth birthday. He is now the last living Victoria Cross holder ...
Read moreWomen, and sometimes children and men, have been covering their heads and faces in public since ancient times. Not so very long ago ...
Read moreShetland 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, ...
Read moreShetland has some fascinating historic wreck sites and the remains greatly enhance our knowledge and understanding of international ...
Read moreThe Shetland Archives has an extensive collection of manuscripts, books, oral history recordings, maps and many other types of ...
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