The Orkney Hood is an Iron Age garment, now in the collection of National Museums Scotland. It is in the form of a woollen hood with tablet-woven trim...

[citation needed] She also made a replica of the Orkney Hood (Britain's oldest textile) for the Orkney Council, and replicas of various prehistoric dwellings...

Constance FitzMaurice, Countess of Orkney (23 January 1865 – 9 May 1946), also known as Connie Gilchrist, was a British child artist's model, actress,...

The Orkney child abuse scandal began on 27 February 1991, when social workers and police removed children—five boys and four girls, aged eight to fifteen...

unknown provenance. In 1867 at nearby Groatsetter the fringed woollen Orkney Hood was discovered lying in peat. It has thought to date from the late Iron...

domus, mare amicus the North is our home, the sea is our friend Motto of Orkney brutum fulmen harmless (or inert) thunderbolt Used to indicate either an...

film and television actress. From the Scottish island of Stronsay in the Orkney Islands where her parents were doctors. She studied Kirkwall Grammar School...

roof for the smoke from a fire to vent. Before the invention of the smoke hood or chimney, many dwellings had smoke holes to allow the smoke from the hearth...

Thompson, Tanya (2006-09-11). "Orkney abuse scandal victim to sue for lost youth". The Scotsman. Retrieved 2007-11-21. "1991: Orkney 'abuse' children go home"...

is the more northerly of two islands in the Pentland Firth between the Orkney Islands and Caithness on the Scottish mainland. It lies in the southern...

(23 nautical miles) from North Ronaldsay (the most northerly island of Orkney). The entire archipelago lies off the northernmost coast of Scotland, in...

HMT Star Of Light Oct 1940 Examination service, returned 1946 HMT Star of Orkney Aug 1939 Minesweeper, returned Sep 1946 HMT Star of Pentland Jan 1940 Minesweeper...

Peterhead. In Portillo's second journey, he travels north from Inverness to the Orkney Islands. Portillo's third journey takes him along the coast of North East...

2019). "Audiobook Review: The Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers(1981)". The Orkney News. Retrieved 28 May 2020. Templeton, Molly (6 April 2021). "A 30-Year-Old...

Old Norse Skalpaflói 'bay of the long isthmus') is a body of water in the Orkney Islands, Scotland, sheltered by the islands of Mainland, Graemsay, Burray...

In the late 19th and early 20th century, young people in Glamorgan and Orkney cross-dressed. Elsewhere in Europe, mumming was part of other festivals...

Christmas and Hogmanay at: Duns in Berwickshire Scone in Perthshire Kirkwall in Orkney Outside the UK, other medieval games include: Calcio Fiorentino – a modern...

Member of Parliament (MP) for Orkney and Shetland from 1983 to 2001 and a Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for Orkney from 1999 to 2007. He also served...

At the start of the Second World War, French was Admiral Commanding, Orkneys and Shetlands (ACOS). On 14 October 1939, the anchorage of Scapa Flow was...

Customs,—and ends with the words,—from the Port of Kirkwall in the Islands of Orkney. The whole. 9 Geo. 3 c. 42 Militia Act 1769 An Act the title of which begins...

notably the Ba game played at Christmas and New Year at Kirkwall in the Orkney Islands of Scotland, Uppies and Downies over Easter at Workington in Cumbria...

was seven years old, the family moved to Scotland, settling in Stromness, Orkney. His father killed himself when Shaw was 12, and the family then relocated...

gone awry". Orkney child abuse scandal "The Peter Ellis website". Archived from the original on 4 May 2019. for reproductions of articles. Hood 2001, p. 201...

front-line duty. On 14 October 1939, Royal Oak was anchored at Scapa Flow in Orkney, Scotland, when she was torpedoed by the German submarine U-47. Of Royal...

Bowfin Submarine Museum & Park. Retrieved 10 November 2012. "Remembering HMS Hood, the mighty warship launched in Clydebank". BBC News. British Broadcasting...

42 13 January 1991 Oppenheimer Stadium disaster, football match crush (Orkney, South Africa) 39 29 May 1985 Heysel Stadium disaster football stadium hooliganism...

brother-in-law. Conspiring with the earl of Orkney, Harald Maddadsson, Hallkjell gathered most of his men on the Orkney and Shetland Islands, hence the name...

Nelson was unsuccessfully attacked by the German submarine U-56 near the Orkney Islands and was hit by two of the three torpedoes fired at a range of 870...

and sod. The appearance corresponds to churches in the Faroe Islands, Orkneys and Shetlands. Since church buildings in Iceland and Norway were usually...

"Robin Hood and Guy of Gisborne" (Child 118) 3978. "Robin Hood and the Monk" (Child 119) 3979. "Robin Hood and the Potter" (Child 121) 3980. "Robin Hood and...