- 12th April 2021
By Tom Addyman, MA (Conservation of Historic Buildings) with distinction, established Addyman Archaeology, one of the leading archaeological companies in Britain, concerned with historic building,...
- 25th March 2021
Our talk On-Line Talk: Where Sheep May Safely Graze on the future of The Hall of Clestrain and the Archaeological Investigations was a free on-line...
- 20th March 2021
Forgotten Hero — Now Remembered March 12th 2021 This was the first in our series of online talks about the Arctic and was very well...
- 5th March 2021
We are organising a series of Zoom hosted on-line talks and also Orkney Archaeology Society are hosting one for us so there is lots to...
- 8th February 2021
James Chalmers former College lecturer and JRS member is attempting to row across the Rae Strait in his living room as his part of the...
- 19th January 2021
James Chalmers former College lecturer and JRS member is attempting to row across the Rae Strait in his living room as his part of the...
- 19th October 2020
During lockdown, my wife, Sigrid and I decided to start the revamp of the wonderful cabin lent to JRS by Casey Construction as an interim...
- 16th October 2020
John Rae may have been known for his ‘long strides’ but the progress in restoring the Hall of Clestrain is more a case of ‘small...
- 10th October 2020
The Society’s Annual General Meeting this year will be on October 25th at 7pm and will be a virtual event using Microsoft TEAMS. For those...
- 6th October 2020
All the lucky winners have been informed, sorry if you were not one of them but thank you for your support this year and of...
- 30th September 2020
Because of the further COVID restrictions we had to scale back our usual graveside memorial to John Rae on his birthday. We are sure all...
- 24th September 2020
Because of the current restrictions that you don’t need reminding about, we have created a virtual Open House so you can explore the Hall in...