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Orkney History There are 176 products.
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Archaeology
Archaeology.
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Scapa Flow & War in...
Scapa Flow.
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Scapa Flow in War and Peace
The history of Scapa Flow, Orkney's magnificent sheltered harbour. By W. S. Hewison. Paperback.
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Cox's Navy: Salvaging the German High Seas...
The story of Ernest Cox, a Wolverhampton-born scrap merchant, who led the biggest salvage operation in history to recover the scuttled German ships in Scapa Flow. By Tony Booth. Paperback.
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Scapa Flow: The Defences of Britain's...
The Defences of Britain's Great Fleet Anchorage 1914-45. Fortress 85 series. Design, technology and history of key fortresses, strategic positions and defensive systems. By Angus Konstam. Softback.
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Eday: Orkney's Best Kept Secret
Eday's rich history and heritage, and that of the Hebden family of Carrick House By Rosemary Hebden. Hardback.
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Orkneyinga Saga: The History of the Earls...
The only medieval chronicle to have Orkney as the central place of action - covering an era when the islands were a major part of the Viking world.
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Orkney At War: Defending Scapa Flow
The story of World War I, and how a remote group of islands off the north of Scotland became 'the principal maritime centre of a world in conflict' and one of the most strongly fortified and most heavily controlled areas in the country. By Geoffrey Stell. Hardback.
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Kirkwall's Story: A Heritage Walking Tour
Involving kings and pirates, saints and witches, scrums, seaweed and sea planes, palaces and a garden folly. The booklet gives a brief account of Kirkwall's past in the form of a walking tour - starting by the Kiln Corner, by the harbour. This is the new and updated 2020 edition. By Kim Twatt.
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An Orkney Anthology Vol 1: Selected Works...
A compilation of the work of the distinguished Orcadian writer and folklorist, Ernest Walker Marwick. Volume 1 of 2. Hardback.
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Orcadiana: Pen Portraits of the Past
A collection of more than forty articles by Gregor Lamb, covering language, history, folklore and placenames. Hardback.
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The Autobiography of Samuel Laing of...
Autobiography written for Laing's family in the 19th century. Edited and Supplemented by R. P. Fereday. Hardback.
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Mary Brunton: The Forgotten Scottish Novelist
Who would have thought that plain Mary Balfour, born and bred in the far Orkney's, would become Mary Brunton, best selling novelist, rival in her time to Jane Austen, and a leading light in Edinburgh's then flourishing and sophisticated literary circles?... By Mary McKerrow. Foreword by Fay Weldon. Hardback.
£ 12.75
