Angus Johnson
Angus Johnson is an Archives Assistant, and has been working in Shetland Archives since 1989. He was young then. Most of his work is to do with audio material.
Articles written by Angus Johnson
Alexander Wallace
A very welcome book came out recently. Developed from a Ph.D., 'Shetland Boats: Origin, Evolution and Use', by Dr Marc Chivers ...
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The Elvira
Stories of shipwreck have long occupied the Shetland imagination. One Shetlander, R. Stuart Bruce (1873-1951), devoted much of his ...
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The Laurel
The Shetland Times, 12 October 1907 reported an important event at the Ness. Harry Irvine of Glenfield got a Fifie fishing boat, the ...
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Letters on Shetland
I got a book in the post the other day, always a good thing. 'Letters on Shetland' by Peter Jamieson (1898-1976), published in 1949 ...
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A reminiscence of a traditional Shetland wedding
When lockdown came, one of our first sad tasks was to tell two couples who’d planned a wedding in the museum that it couldn’t ...
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Up Helly Aa - the Venues
We’re missing Up Helly Aa again - not just a fire spectacle but a major social event, with dances and performances in many venues in ...
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The New Year, 1872 and the Truck Commission
The New Year of 1872 began in a special way in Shetland. On the first of January Sheriff William Guthrie began hearings in the Queens ...
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A Lerwick Christmas One Hundred Years Ago: 1921
The Town Council decided which day the Christmas holiday should be on, there had been petitions. After some deliberation they settled ...
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Accounts with Women Labourers
Thomas Hardy, probably the Victorian novelist most familiar with the grit of rural life, described the work of his agricultural ...
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The Maiden
Hallowe’en at the end of October is traditionally a part of the year when macabre things are thought of and expressed. Perhaps a ...
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The Tolbooth Jail
We don’t have many records that make a direct reference to a person’s personal appearance. Important people might be described, ...
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The Fenian Raid on Unst
Shetlanders have long enjoyed jokes, pranks, and hoaxes, aka “plunkies.” Sometimes these have stretched to include British ...
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