Shetland Life Editorial
At the end of any year there will be things you wish to remember and things you would prefer to forget. Looking back over 2009,
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Nelson’s Column
As I write this in mid December it is around about that time when tabloid newspapers start to bang on about Christmas Scrooges: offices that
READ FULL STORYNew Year: Three wishes
As another year and another decade begin, Marsali Taylor offers Shetlanders a hypothetical New Year fairy, and asks what their special wishes might be.
READ FULL STORYMusic: Shipwrecks & Static
Fair Isle musician, singer and songwriter Inge Thomson has just released her first solo album, after many years of involvement with other bands and artists.
READ FULL STORYHistory: The Lindberghs in Lerwick
In 1933, Charles Lindbergh was probably the most famous man on the planet. Charlie Simpson tells the story of his spectacular arrival in Lerwick harbour,
READ FULL STORYPower of Place: Look up
In the first of our new monthly series of articles, celebrating 2010’s Power of Place event, Iain Malcolmson suggests it is time for all of
READ FULL STORYPast Times: WANTED – A town clerk with “suitable qualifications”
From The Shetland Times, Friday 15th January, 1960 Lerwick Town Council are to advertise for a “town clerk with suitable qualifications” to succeed Mr Thomas
READ FULL STORYPast Life: Editorial Comment – The Year That’s Gone
From Shetland Life, January 1985, No. 51 While many people will be glad to see the back of 1984 it was, on the whole, a
READ FULL STORYShetland Life: Editorial
It would hardly be controversial to suggest that there is something of a crisis in Shetland politics today. At the time of the last elections,
READ FULL STORYFiction: In full flight
The marquee was flapping in the flans of wind that swept down through the harbour. The scaffolding skeleton held on to its skin, but the
READ FULL STORYArchitecture: Place-making
Throughout 2010, Shetland will be playing host to its first year-long celebration of architecture and place, when Power of Place asks how architecture and place-making
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Some readers of this magazine may recall the article written by James Irvine entitled “Last Voyage of the Active” in Issue No. 312 (October 2006).
READ FULL STORYNelson’s Column
Recently I enjoyed the glitter and magic of the Clickimin Christmas Craft Fair. My wife, in her capacity as a jeweller and silversmith, set up
READ FULL STORYPast Life: Frobisher’s Shetland Hansel
It is not generally known that Sir Martin Frobisher, that grand seaman and explorer, on his first voyage in search of new seas and lands
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