#Orkney

Today is #MobileLibrariesDay which is an annual celebration of Mobile Library services across Scotland. We thought this was a good day to take a quick look back at the Mobile
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It's 80 years ago to the day that the S.S. Politician ran aground on the island of Eriskay, inspiring Compton Mackenzie to write his classic novel Whisky Galore.It reminds us
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It has always been the Plan B of British nationalists when they knew game might be up to start annexing parts of Scotland.We saw it in 2014 with "referenda for
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BBC news about Carmont. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-53861668?SThisFB&fbclid=IwAR3UxLsDzEjuGf3kuNXQx6kDjvGjpl0Gz4AfbA10MBHeljY9EtFoFEpPplAInteresting. Nothing really wrong with the story but it's
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If you walk along Junction Road to Orkney Library & Archive this morning you can't get in because we're closed (). But if you came here 150 years ago you
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Short(ish) thread on our work in Orkney, do share with anyone who might be interested. Our project is based on five of the 'non-linked' isles of Orkney, a group of
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BREXIT THREAD - British Fishing & The ReferendumAll the talk has been about the fish, not the people who’s livelihoods depend on them. How did they vote in 2016? How
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Speaker tells the House the Queen has signified Royal Assent to the private international law act 2020 and the parliamentary constituencies act 2020 Parliamentary constituencies act came into force at
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Yesterday I saw a tweet - and promptly lost it, sorry whoever it was - wondering about 'anti-bellwethers', seats in elections that always vote for the losing side. So, of
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I had a statistical conniption about the Aberdeen study published in BMJOpen earlier today. Let's see if I can explain my concerns in a less techie fashion. The gist of
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As a woman working in #heritagescience, I'd like to celebrate the work of our @HistEnvScot #PhD students on this @WomenScienceDay who are using digital technologies & scientific approaches to support
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This is this year’s Trafalgar Square Christmas tree at the annual felling ceremony today in Oslo. This year, more than most, we need the Christmas cheer it traditionally brings. #trafalgarsquare
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Making my first return to Shetland since the start of the pandemic - glad to get around and talk to people about how the community is starting to recover from
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Anyways, thread on Scottish languages, both modern and ancient (Gaelic, Scots, English, Pictish, and Norn) for anyone who's interested! Firstly, let's divide the most common by language family. Gaelic and
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We have a problem with fake history, folks. And it isn’t just internet idiots pushing false narratives. Sometimes it’s opinion columnists too. Beyond remedial training for overconfident partisan journalists, I’ve
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It's worth periodically reminding folk that dialects of the Scots language differ most in terms of pronunciation & accent rather than vocabulary. Where differences are more pronounced now re: vocab,
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