Sir William Rowan Hamilton was one of the greatest thinkers the world has seen. He created elegant...
Tag - OISF 2018
Transport on demand test-run for festival-goers
A new system to provide on-demand transport is to be tried out in this year’s Science Festival. The...
Young team get top voice training
The skills that helped train the voices of both Hollywood actors and the Global Leadership Fellows...
On the road in Sutherland
A bitterly cold east wind hurls its force through the darkness outside the building, but all...
Year of Young People to boost Festival
Music from Ireland, astronomy from Uzbekistan, newly created art and design, and young people to...
Memories of Robert Shaw
Archie Bevan’s tribute to Robert Shaw was broadcast on BBC Radio Orkney in August 1978 following...
Climbing the Old Man of Hoy
Alison McLure of the Institute of Physics has travelled on expeditions to the Arctic and Antarctic...
Scenes of Sutherland
It’s some of the most spectacular scenery in the world, and it’s on Orkney’s doorstep. Bob Tateson...
Pilgrims on the Brough of Deerness
After a bad forecast came a grey Sunday, the first of October. White waves were on the loch and...
The lost world beneath the waves
An old Orkney legend may carry a hint of the rising sea. It tells of Orkneymen visiting Norway and...