We have been sent an interesting article by a member, Rognvald Boyd.Here is an extract:“Dr. John Rae – commemorated on [...]

A talk by Adam Doskey, Curator of Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignRoyal Hotel, Stromness Wednesday [...]

This book review was first published by the Ormsby Review on https://bcbooklook.comThe bane of the British AdmiralityFinding John Rae is [...]

In January 2017 we paid for a structural survey of the Hall of Clestrain by Steve Wood of David Narro [...]

Hall of Clestrain planning workshop, 28th January 2017 On 28th January members of the John Rae Society’s Hall of Clestrain [...]

In spring 2014, Associate Professor Doug Pritchard of Heriot-Watt University visited Orkney as a guest of the Society. His task [...]

John Rae was born at the Hall of Clestrain, Orphir, on 30th September 1813; one of nine children. His [...]