Stitches in time as knitwear goes back 200 years
The exhibition of Shetland’s quintessential product, knitwear, delighted Hamefarers at Shetland Museum and Archives on Wednesday, with examples of the craft dating back nearly 200
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Hamefarer Davie returns home from Oz
There is one among the merry throng of hamefarers this week who is already a very well-kent face in his homeland: Davie Thomason is a
READ FULL STORYQuilters pull together for Norse display
Twenty women – 14 Hamefarers and six locals – joined hamefarer and quilter Ann Hill at Islesburgh on Wednesday in a class to work on
READ FULL STORYIncredible stories in Laughton’s worthy book
Author J. Laughton Johnston gave an informative summary of his book A Kist of Emigrants at its launch at Clickimin on Monday evening.
READ FULL STORYCanadian author visits Nicolson family roots
Hamefarer and author Jim Stimson is visiting Shetland from Canada for the first time and has made a pilgrimage to the site of the former
READ FULL STORYBobby in the heart of it as South Africa prepares for big kick off
Young Unst man BOBBY MACAULAY completed his schooling in Swaziland and is now studying politics at Glasgow University. With the World Cup in South Africa
READ FULL STORYCoutts family ready to return in strength
Scalloway-born Jim Coutts and his wife Rose are in the process of moving from their home in the New Zealand capital Wellington to the Bay
READ FULL STORYUS visitor Bruce looks forward to trip and explains a passion for lace knitting
American man Bruce Gilardi, who was born in California and now lives in New York, is excited about coming to Hamefarin – a number of
READ FULL STORYDescendant of man who left isles in early Victorian times to return
Australian woman Ivy Bradford and her husband Ray will be travelling to the Hamefarin in June. Ivy is looking forward to seeing the homeland of
READ FULL STORYHome from New Zealand, ‘via’ Arizona
New Zealand-born Ronnie McPherson, whose grandparents emigrated from Shetland in the 1920s, is looking forward to coming to the Hamefarin with his American wife Nancy.
READ FULL STORYAlthing remembers life of Lollie
The last meeting of the season for the Althing Social Group on Saturday was a special event to commemorate the life of the late Lollie
READ FULL STORYFetlar descendant excited about first trip
Fourth generation New Zealander John Charles Thomason and his wife Shirley are looking forward to seeing Shetland for the first time when they come for
READ FULL STORYVisitor Lois hoping to uncover more on her Wishart roots
Australian woman Lois Wishart Lindsay is looking forward to coming to the Hamefarin in June and discovering more about her roots. Here she writes about
READ FULL STORYHeart-rending wartime loss of crew of Giralda to be remembered 70 years on
Over the six years that the Second World War lasted my father used to say there was never such a thing as a good day,
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