History
History
Old Shetland
Guthrie Hutton
Guthrie Hutton
Old photographs from around Shetland, with detailed captions depicting its places and people.
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Papa Stour and 1299
Barbara E. Crawford
Barbara E. Crawford
Shetland’s first document is unique in the history of medieval Scotland. This remarkable historical record – a letter sent by the Lawthingmen to Duke Hakon of Norway recording events in Papa Stour at easter time 1299 – was commemorated at a conference in Lerwick in 1999.
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Passage to the Northern Isles: Ferry Services to Orkney and Shetland 1790-2010
Miles Cowsill and Colin Smith
Miles Cowsill and Colin Smith
This book documents the history of the Northern Isles ferries, from the Leith & Clyde Shipping Co. of the 1790's to the NorthLink vessels used today. This is a very detailed title and contains a wide range of photographs of various vessels which have run between the isles over the years.
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Prehistoric and Viking Shetland
Noel Fojut
Noel Fojut
What is Shetland’s past and where can it be seen? In Prehistoric and Viking Shetland Noel Fojut takes the interested amateur on an archaeological journey over six thousand years from the earliest prehistoric settlement to Norse times. En route, he shares insights into the key archaeological sites and how archaeological understanding is evolving as new discoveries, excavations and surveys reveal fresh facts which challenge old theories.
This new edition has been updated to take account of recent research and current thinking. It includes a series of chronological chapters, a gazetteer of many sites and a selection of area tours, affording both casual visitors and dedicated enthusiasts ample scope for exploring Shetland’s rich archaeological heritage.
This new edition has been updated to take account of recent research and current thinking. It includes a series of chronological chapters, a gazetteer of many sites and a selection of area tours, affording both casual visitors and dedicated enthusiasts ample scope for exploring Shetland’s rich archaeological heritage.
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School Days 1951-1962
Gordon B. Smith
Gordon B. Smith
Retired Master Mariner Gordon Smith, who now lives in New Zealand, recalls his school days and growing up in Lerwick
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Shetland and the Shetlanders: Or, the Northern Circuit
Catherine Sinclair
Catherine Sinclair
Facsimile edition of an 1840 travel book.
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Shetland Bus Faces and places 60 years on
Trygve Sørvaag
Trygve Sørvaag
The Shetland Bus touched countless lives during the Second World War. These people’s experiences still burn in their memories. Photojournalist Trygve Sørvaag has met with and portrayed individuals living on both sides of the North Sea, now sixty years after the war: The young boy who just had to go when ‘England fever’ blazed through his western Norway settlement; the schoolgirl who fled in all haste; the Shetlanders who met Norwegian refugees on the beach; the agent on assignment in Norway; the courageous woman who sheltered refugees; the young Norwegian fisherman who became so enamoured of Shetland that he settled down there for good; an many others.
In this unique blend of photography and history we encounter two coastal peoples – divided by war, yet joined by the sea. Shetland Bus is a comprehensive documentary of the people of Norway and Great Britain and the special connection they share. In its pages you are taken on a journey along the Norwegian coast from Rogaland to Møre and Romsdal, and from Shetland to London on the other side of the sea. The result is a moving description of two coastal communities and a new perspective on our wartime history.
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Shetland Documents 1580-1611
John H. Ballantyne & Brian Smith
John H. Ballantyne & Brian Smith
This work is a collection of texts and summaries of Shetland documents from the period of the Stewart earls. It comprises deeds relating to sales and mortgage of land, ecclesiastical and commercial documents, court records and many miscellaneous items. The editors have combed public and private collections of papers to locate every significant Shetland document from the period between 1580-1611. A special feature of the work is the large number of items from Court of Session records, virtually unexamined by historians until now.
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Shetland Ponies from Shetland
Margaret Hunter
Margaret Hunter
To fully understand the Shetland pony you need to know their natural habitat. It is difficult to imagine the severity of the winter storms and the hazards of the rugged boggy heath and rock strewn hills. It is these conditions which have, over countless centuries, moulded the animal we know today – both physically and mentally. The final product, with flowing mane and tail, designer winter coat and uncanny intelligence is no accident, for weakness of any part meant certain death. Shetland Ponies from Shetland is a slice of history as well as a tribute to this unique breed and its devotees.
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Shetland's Northern Links - Language & History
Doreen J. Waugh
Doreen J. Waugh
Shetland’s Northern Links: Language and History is one in a series of publications by the Scottish Society for Northern Studies. The conference which gave rise to the publication was held in Lerwick, Shetland, in July 1993, and it marked two special occasions: the quarter-centenary of the Society’s existence and the centenary of the arrival of the raoese Philologist Jakob Jakobsen in Shetland at the start of his three-year period of place-name and dialect field work in the islands.
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