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Islands Matter Webinar ‘Women in Manx Politics: Small island democracy?’
The Islands Matter webinars are the result of a collaboration between Dr Andrew Jennings Institute for Northern Studies UHI, Professor Frank Rennie Lews Castle College UHI and Dr Beth Mouat Shetland UHI. This series of webinars was set up to address the hunger in the Scottish islands to hear from…
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‘The Ministry and Magic in Early Modern Orkney’ with Prof Peter Marshall, University of Warwick
This paper explores practices and attitudes around access to supernatural power in early modern Orkney, from the later sixteenth century to the beginning of the nineteenth. It seeks to ask what parish ministers thought of the persistence of magical beliefs within their congregations, and also what people in those congregations…
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“Islandian sovereignty” with Gerard Prinsen an Islands Matter Seminar
The Islands Matter webinars are the result of a collaboration between Dr Andrew Jennings Institute for Northern Studies UHI, Professor Frank Rennie Lews Castle College UHI and Dr Beth Mouat Shetland UHI. This series of webinars was set up to address the hunger in the Scottish islands to hear from…
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The Island of Faray Orkney’s lesser known North Isle
The island of Faray – abandoned in 1947 – is something of an enigma, having been almost forgotten in the course of less than 100 years. Debates rage over the pronunciation, the impending works on a new slipway or the proposed OIC windfarm. Finally, Faray is back in people’s minds. …
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Ireland, Orkney and Shetland, and kingship in the reign of James V’: Dr Alison Cathcart
As part of the Institute for Northern Studies Autumn – Winter Seminar Series Dr Alison Cathcart of the University of Stirling presents ‘They ‘offered to give what they do not even hope to gain’: Ireland, Orkney and Shetland, and kingship in the reign of James V.’ Recorded on 25 November…
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OLAVUS PAUPER HETHLANDINUS, ‘Poor Olaf, the Shetlander’, the first known Shetlandic poet
Shetland has produced some prestigious writers
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‘Views in Orkney and on the North Eastern Coast of Scotland’ by Countess Duchess of Sutherland (Elizabeth Leveson-Gower, 1765-1839)
Many people will be familiar with the significant part Countess Duchess of Sutherland, the Marchioness of Stafford, had to play in the Highland Clearances. It is not so widely known that she was a visual artist of some skill.
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Sir David Sinclair’s fine clothes listed in his will in 1506
We look at a the list of clothes and other possessions belonging to the Sinclair family after the pledging of Orkney and Shetland to Scotland in 1468-9.
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Orkney: Late Medieval Dress
This article discusses Late Medieval Dress in Orkney the visual evidence for which is minimal, with only a small handful of carvings and statues.
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