We have been sent an interesting article by a member, Rognvald Boyd. Here is an extract: “Dr. John Rae – commemorated on an unusual scaleFamous...
- 14th June 2018
A talk by Adam Doskey, Curator of Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignRoyal Hotel, Stromness Wednesday 11th July 2018, 7.30pm We were...
This book review was first published by the Ormsby Review on https://bcbooklook.com The bane of the British Admirality Finding John Rae is a creative non-fiction...
In January 2017 we paid for a structural survey of the Hall of Clestrain by Steve Wood of David Narro Associates of Edinburgh. The purpose...
Hall of Clestrain planning workshop, 28th January 2017 On 28th January members of the John Rae Society’s Hall of Clestrain working group met in the...
In spring 2014, Associate Professor Doug Pritchard of Heriot-Watt University visited Orkney as a guest of the Society. His task was to digitally scan and...
John Rae was born at the Hall of Clestrain, Orphir, on 30th September 1813; one of nine children. His father (also called John) was the...