It was a spring ploughing that did it, in Ola and Arnie Tait’s field at Brodgar in 2003. The plough...
Author - Howie Firth
Stones across the sea
Remember where you were when you read it in the papers yesterday, 15 August, just one day after...
A rock in the community
Dr John Flett Brown, who died on 7 January 2024, was for so many people in Orkney and elsewhere the...
Ada Lovelace, Enchantress of Numbers
The numbers came from her mother. From her father, Lord Byron – poetry and passion. The future Ada...
The poet’s song and the fish in the sea
It was the perfect name for a poet, and it was his own. The surname Singer came from his father, a...
The Earl, the Bishop, and the springtime of science
The Earl’s Palace in Kirkwall was built by Patrick Stewart at a time when deep currents were coming...
The man who tabled the elements
Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev was born in 1834 in Siberia, in a village near the town of Tobolsk.His...
Oh, starboard your helm!
“Orkney has a winter mean temperature similar to Edinburgh, Leicester or indeed Genoa or...
Islands in the ocean
The sea shapes almost everything in Orkney. For a start, you’re never far from it. On a winter’s...
Tim took them through
On World Whisky Day, 16 May, we send greetings to a friend of many years, Dr Tim Dolan in Aberlour...