More than 500 years after the Orkneys became part of Scotland, the islanders have been given an official tartan. More than 500 years after the Orkneys became part of Scotland, the islanders have ...

When Peter Williams was told his home in the Orkney isles, 10 miles off the northernmost coast of mainland Britain, was the ideal location for solar panelling, he was more than slightly sceptical.

A wild green archipelago of some 70 islands scattered between 10 and 80km off the northern tip of the Scottish mainland, the Orkneys are so far-flung they did not even become part of Scotland ...

to the Scottish king in 1469. Monumenta Orcadica. The Norsemen in the Orkneys and the Monuments they have left. By L. Dietrichson. With original drawings and some chapters on St. Magnus Cathedral ...