Gaan Nort

Description

The Oral History of the North Isles project was created to document and capture the social, economic and cultural history of the North Isles of Orkney through their oral history.

The North Isles have a varied and unique history. The people who live there had many stories to tell about their experiences and their past – their ancestors, the local landscape, the industries they have witnessed and worked in, and the changes they have seen in their communities over the years. Through a series of face-to-face interviews, the project set out to gather some of these narratives of past events and recollections across generations of the North Isles of Orkney.

The interviews should help those living in – or belonging to – the North Isles understand what has shaped the islands, and how the memories, experiences and reminiscences from bygone times can inform the present.