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Captain Lawrence Irvine

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 ...

June 3rd 2020

Archivist Brian Smith delves into the incredible story of his ten-times great grandfather the accomplished and unruly Ninian Neven. ...

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, ...

April 29th 2020

The Shetland Archives has an extensive collection of manuscripts, books, oral history recordings, maps and many other types of ...

April 23rd 2020

Anyone reading this blog is used to sharing information and connecting with people online. We take it for granted that, if we want to ...

April 22nd 2020

One of Shetland’s more remarkable archaeological sites is Da Croon o Da Ura, in Unst, just about the most northerly part of the ...

April 6th 2020

From teapots to lepidoptera, there is a place for objects, large or small, in Shetland’s Museum and Archives’ collection. Here, ...

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