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Unkans Issue 43 (432 FREE Unkans APRIL 2014 The newsletter of the Shetland Heritage and Culture Community Issue 43 Shetland Museum and Archives staff have been busy over the past year working on a project which has explored the historical literature of Orkney and Shetland, and explored continuity with contemporary works. The Writing the North project will culminate in a major exhibition, currently on show in Da Gadderie at Shetland Museum and Archives. The exhibition uses books, sound High have been studying extracts their own creative writing to an recordings, manuscripts and from Sir Walter Scott’s ‘The interactive map. There are also illustrations to tell the story of Pirate’ and will produce a short education packs to download literature in the Northern Isles film depicting a modern take on and dialogues between academic through four themes: myths and the piece. Aith, Whalsay and Brae specialists in Scottish literature and legends, visitors to the islands, pupils are also working on films contemporary writers connected working lives, and the sounds of which will be lasting legacy of with the Northern Isles. Orkney and Shetland. this project. Pupils have received The exhibition will run until Exciting interactive displays drama lessons and help with set 11th May, with a final day of events and activities bring to life what design and costume planning to planned for Saturday 10th May it was like to live, to work and to provide a cross curricular learning including a series of talks and an write in the islands from the early experience. evening of poetry reading. See nineteenth century to the present The project website – www. www.shetlandmuseumandarchives. day. The exhibition also includes writingthenorth.com gives a wealth org.uk for more details. Free tickets items on loan such as a portrait of of information about the literature for this event are available from Walter Scott by William Nicholson of Orkney and Shetland and Shetland Museum and Archives, from the National Portrait Gallery, encourages visitors to contribute call 01595 741562 to reserve yours. and a Robert Louis Stevenson manuscript from the Edinburgh writers museum. Shetland ForWirds is getting ready for its annual fund- A key aim of Writing the North raising concert in the Garrison Theatre on Tuesday is to share the literature of the 13th May. It’s usually a sell-out so keep a look out for islands with as wide an audience as when tickets are available. Performers will be coming possible. To this end, local school fae aa da airts. Among them will be the winners of the pupils have been involved in the dialect prize at the Shetland Schools Music Festival, project by studying the work of an Burravoe Primary School, and the Brenna Players from author and interpreting it in their Bigton who won the dialect section at the Shetland own way through film or drama. County Drama Festival. Pupils from Sandwick Junior Local Events Listings Visit For information on local events please visit www.shetland.org to view listings. To add your own event to this site please call 01595 989898 or www.shetlandamenity.org/unkans complete the online form at www.visit.shetland.org/submit-an-event to sign up for your electronic copy 2 Unkans Felsite Research and Display Felsite ‘axe factory’, North Roe Felsite Dyke, Northmavine Neolithic knives and axes are where there is a chambered cairn and collections. Professor Gabriel Cooney some of Shetland’s most beautiful and felsite dykes. The focus of the survey from University College Dublin will distinctive archaeological finds. Made will be the Beorgs of Uyea and small- be visiting the Shetland Museum and of North Roe felsite, they still amaze us scale, targeted excavation will take Archives, and rural community halls to with their striking patterns and highly place at Grut Wells. meet with local people. polished surface. Some of them bear Experimental work to understand A small collection of exquisite little or no signs of wear meaning that the processes of working felsite felsite knives and axes is now they might have been used for religious will also be undertaken. Crucially, on display in the Museum in the or ceremonial purposes. a ‘felsite roadshow’ is planned for archaeology section. Jenny New research by Shetland June, which will give researchers the Murray, Collections Curator, Museum and Archives and University chance to record any axes in private who has produced this display said College Dublin will attempt to better “If you have a felsite artefact at understand the significance of felsite home we would love to see it so it in Shetland’s Neolithic communities. could be recorded and photographed How and when was it quarried? How for the project’s reference. It is was it shaped and polished? How important that we can trace as many was it distributed between different items as possible to gain a more communities? Those are the kind complete picture of distribution of of questions researchers will try to Neolithic axes.” answer. If anyone can help with the project, An archaeological and geochemical please contact Jenny, or a member of characterisation will centre on Ronas Felsite Display at Shetland Museum and staff at Shetland Museum and Archives Hill, the highest point of Shetland Archives on 01595 695057. Corrections We do get things wrong from time to time. Apologies for the following errors, and thanks to the eagle eyed readers who spotted them! • The image on page 3 of February 2014’s issue stated that it showed Jarl Laurence Sandison, when it was in fact, Macgibbon Scott, the Jarl for 1913. • The story of James Campbell Jamieson in the December 2013 issue said Mr Jamieson was from Garth, in Sandness. This should have said Greenfield, in Sandness and his granddaughter, Miss Deyell now lives in Eastbourne, and not Edinburgh as printed. Unkans 3 Shetland Bus Reference Room The latest addition to the Scalloway Museum is suitable location. The room was equipped with handsome a dedicated reference room, principally created to cabinets, redecorated, and computer equipment installed in house a donated collection of books, which has the January this year. Since then a number of further donations potential to become one of the most comprehensive have been made from members of the Shetland Bus UK-based archives of Shetland Bus historical books Friendship Society, including additional books and financial and documents. support. This unique facility came into being through a chance February brought the reference room into first formal piece of serendipity that brought together museum use with the arrival of Norwegian historian and author volunteers with two significant benefactors to the museum. Asgeir Ueland, accompanied by Norwegian Special A conversation between a museum volunteer and a trustee Forces historian Tomas Adam. Mr Ueland brought of a charity called the Gerry Holdsworth Special Forces with him digitally imaged copies of around 20,000 SOE Trust yielded the chance to apply for funding that paid for documents from the National Archive in London as part equipping the archive room. Mr Duncan Stuart, the trustee, of his research toward a new comprehensive book on the was chatting to volunteer Cathy Hallett in the Scalloway subject. Mr Ueland has left copies of the documents in the Museum while holidaying in Shetland and indicated that Scalloway Museum reference room to form yet another the charity he represented was formed in memorial to key component of the archive. The many wartime, and Commander Gerry Holdsworth “to help preserve and subsequent, photographs that the museum possesses promote the heritage of SOE and related Special Forces.” will also be duly archived in digital form and made The SOE (Special Operations Executive) were in command available. of the British side of the Shetland Bus operation which An interesting footnote to the good fortune which features as a key exhibit in the Scalloway Museum. Having brought this archive into existence is the fact that established that the charity would like to fund a project in Commander Gerry Holdsworth, whose memorial trust support of the Scalloway Museum, the next piece of good fund primed the project, was placed as an agent in Norway fortune came when Mr Douglas Smith offered to donate in 1939, exploring possible landing sites for supplies. This his entire collection of Shetland Bus related books to the was part of an early operation that was unrelated to, but museum. Mr Smith had collected an extensive archive evidently contributed to, the conception of the full Shetland of written material on the subject from both UK and Bus Operation which remains of such importance to the Norwegian authors. joint wartime history of Norway and Shetland. The initial Having identified the funding to equip the reference funding toward creation of an archive and reference room room, and content with which to stock it, a space used as to detail this history is a fitting legacy for one of those who a workshop in the Scalloway Museum was identified as a primed the operation in its infancy. Lerwick Brass Band celebrates over 150 years of Brass Banding in Shetland. As part of the European Festival of Brass 2014 (26th April – 11th May), visitors to the Shetland Museum and Archives will be able to view a focus display celebrating over 150 years of Brass Banding in Shetland. The exhibition, on display throughout May, will feature items and images from throughout the Lerwick Brass Band’s history. The first reference to a brass band in Shetland dates to March 23rd 1863, when an advertisement was placed in the Shetland
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