Notes from a niseach
Tolling the bell: the loss of the Iolaire In the issue of The Shetland Times dated 4th January 1919, there are a number of articles…
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Past Times: proposed new county buildings
From The Shetland Times, Friday 6th March, 1959 [An] artist’s impression, reproduced by permission of the county architect, Mr T. J. N. Conway, shows the…
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From Shetland Life, March 1984, No.41 by Sheila Gear FEBRUARY: This is one of my favourite times of the year. I feel like a jack-in-the-box…
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The limitations of democracy After an extended period of head-burying and procrastination, it now appears that change is going to come to Shetland Charitable Trust….
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Sandy Peterson argues that many of our standard responses to young people’s behavioural problems simply do not work. Here he offers some suggestions on how…
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Jonathan Wills concludes his account of life in Unst in the 1970s, when he was skipper of the Muckle Flugga attending boat, Grace Darling. We…
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Adam Grydehøj explains the thinking behind the forthcoming conference on island culture and identity: “Taking Shetland out of the Box”. I came to Shetland in…
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Görwill trows blamed for earthquake. Wir you reeselled oot o your bed by da earthquake? Da Görwill trows ir da eens tae blame for whit…
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False comforters Over the last few weeks, there has been much in the Scottish media about young Simon Macmillan, the boy who has gone missing…
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From Shetland Life, February 1984, No.40 While reading Mr Sutherland’s interesting article on the Yell Sound ferries the name “Pearson the Dentist” caught my eye….
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From The Shetland Times, Friday 27th February, 1959 Lerwick fire brigade had to make a quick dash to the west mainland on Wednesday morning, then…
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Unnatural opposition The future is suddenly looking brighter for those in the agricultural industry who have been calling for improved slaughtering facilities in the islands….
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From its very earliest days, Shetlanders were deeply involved in the women’s suffrage movement. Marsali Taylor investigates the role of the Shetland Women’s Suffrage Society…
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Malachy Tallack asks what the essential elements of a community might be, and why it is that people come to these islands to find one….
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