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Westray and Evie pupils catch the wind and meet the...
2 min read
Capture the sun’s energy at your school
2 min read
FESTIVAL PROGRAMME SCANS PAST, PRESENT, FUTURE
5 min read
Build a model wind turbine!
2 min read
Scottish award for Slovenian anniversary tune
4 min read

FEATURED

Sea and Land Islands in the ocean
by Howie Firth
Sea and Land Exploring Hoy
by Rose Matheson
Frontiers 2018 • Sea and Land Climbing the Old Man of Hoy
by Mike Pescod
Sea and Land Haaf-netting in the Solway Firth
by Ann Lingard
Sea and Land Little flower of the north
by Howie Firth

Archaeology & History The Earl, the Bishop, and the Springtime of Science
by Howie Firth
Archaeology & History The Cairns comes to Stromness Museum
by Bernie Bell
Archaeology & History An epic of steam and steel
by John Goodlad
Archaeology & History Sailing with Shackleton – an Orkney link
by Patricia Long
Archaeology & History HMS Hood, Last of her kind
by William Sutherland

Arts & Crafts A rainbow of colour and light
by Roy Burdon
Arts & Crafts Images from Canada for the John Rae bicentenary
by Sheena Fraser McGoogan
Arts & Crafts Sound and music and us
by Clive and Marianne Greated
Arts & Crafts Science and the paintbox
by Roy Burdon
Arts & Crafts Beatrice Works – turbines over the sea
by Sue Jane Taylor

Foraging & Outings • Frontiers 2018 Walking with Ravens and Wonder
by Elizabeth Woodcock
Foraging & Outings • Frontiers 2015 A land of Ice and Fire
by Stewart Watt
Foraging & Outings • Frontiers 2018 Cape Wrath – What’s in a Name?
by Bob Tateson
Foraging & Outings • Frontiers 2018 Scenes of Sutherland
by Bob Tateson
Foraging & Outings • Frontiers 2019 Living off the Land
by Mary Leonard

People Past & Present John D. Mackay: Man of Letters
by Tom Rendall
People Past & Present James Petrie Chalmers – Pioneer of Vision
by Moya McDonald
People Past & Present • Stories from the Islands The Cod Hunters
by John Goodlad
People and Ideas Loganair and the Islander
by Howie Firth
People Past & Present A Toast to Peggie Gibson
by Gary Gibson

Reviews Treacle is Medicine
by Bernie Bell
Reviews Ghostwalk – a novel of ideas
by Derek Ward
Frontiers 2018 • Reviews Music to reach to the stars
by Howie Firth
Reviews Kitchener and the Hampshire
by Julia Anya Guthrie
Frontiers 2016 • Reviews Roads to the future: can sci-fi predict them?
by Mary Leonard

People Past & Present • Stories from the Islands The Cod Hunters
by John Goodlad
Stories from the Islands Beltane Fog
by Christine Muir
Stories from the Islands North Ron Walrus
by Gavin Woodbridge
Stories from the Islands A time to spin
by Christine Muir
Stories from the Islands Roads and shores of the West
by Bessie Skea

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The mystery of the oaks
by Steve Webster
Scented summer days
by Christine Muir
80 years since the loss of HMS Hood
by Moya McDonald
HMS Hood, Last of her kind
by William Sutherland
On earth as it is in heaven – was Orion linked...
by Sigurd Towrie
Painting the Shackleton story
by Mary Leonard

Talked About

On earth as it is in heaven – was Orion linked to...
by Sigurd Towrie
The turning of autumn
by Elizabeth Woodcock
Kirkhouse Kirkyard
by Bernie Bell
New website highlights Festival and Orkney
by Orkney Science Festival
Gravitational waves – and the Papay connection
by Patricia Long
From Pilcher to planets at Aviation Festival
by Mary Leonard

About Frontiers Magazine

Frontiers magazine is produced by Orkney International Science Festival, one of the world’s oldest science festivals after Edinburgh. We aim to explore ideas and places, and bring you stories of the islands and people past and present and scenes of land and sea, of making and doing and journeys to new horizons.