Past Times: First circus visit for thirty years
From The Shetland Times, Friday 22nd August, 1958 The first circus to visit Shetland for over thirty years was a big attraction in Lerwick’s Gilbertson…
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Tochts fae Tushie Truncherfaece
Sky high fuel prices maks trows lie low Wid you believe dat da increases in da price o fuel is even budderin trows? An we…
READ FULL STORYPast Times: Institute’s creditable year
From The Shetland Times, Friday 11th July, 1958 Institute’s creditable year The Anderson Institute rector, Mr Wm. Rhind, was able to report a creditable list…
READ FULL STORYShetland Life: Editorial
The emigration question On several occasions recently it has been noted that Shetland has something of an emigration problem. In particular, attention has been drawn…
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It is the country that defeated the Norsemen; where ice dominates the land. Malachy Tallack goes West, to Greenland One thousand years ago, Narsarsuaq was…
READ FULL STORYPolitics & culture: Our Baltic counterpart
Adam Grydehøj finds parallels with Shetland in the islands of Åland, and discovers how political autonomy has benefited the archipelago. This June, I was in…
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A sense of loss There is no doubt that the most chilling hours in life are when we are reminded that, like the rest of…
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From Shetland Life, July 1983, No. 33 Shetland Fiddling: New life for old tradition by Hugh Nolan Far be it for me to decry the…
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