Orkney Archives
Orkney Library, Laing Street, Kirkwall KW15 1NW

READING
Rev George Barry : The History of the Orkney Islands (1805 Edinburgh for the Author)
(1808 Longman, London. 2nd Ed)
Offered in 1998 for £225
(1867 Kirkwall)
The Rentall of the Provestrie of Orkney, 1584 (c1830 Edinburgh)
Poetical Descriptions of Orkney, 1652 (1835 Edinburgh)
Thoughts on Orkney and Zetland, Their Antiquities and Capabilities
of Improvement (1831 Edinburgh)
Deeds relating to Orkney and Zetland 1433-1581 (1840 Edinburgh)
W B B : List of Books and Manuscripts relating to Orkney & Zetland, or in which these
Islands are Mentioned (1847 Kirkwall)
J M N : Ecclesiological Notes on the Isle of Man, Ross, Sutherland and the Orkneys (1848 London)
C Clouston : Meteorological Observations taken at orkney (1861 Kirkwall)
Thomas Edmonston : A Flora of Shetland (1865 George Clark, Aberdeen)
Thomas Edmonston : Glossary of Shetland and Orkney Dialect (1866 Kirkwall)
Handbook to the Orkney Islands : Illustrated (1870 Kirkwall)
(Ed) W R Mackintosh : The Orkney Crofters - Their Evidence and Statements before the Crofters Commission
(1888 Edinburgh)
J B Craven : A History of the Church in Orkney (1893-1912) - 4 vols
(Compiler) J W Cursiter : A List of Books and Pamphlets relating to Orkney & Shetland (1894 Kirkwall)

1900-1950
B H Hossack : Kirkwall in the Orkneys (1900 Kirkwall)
L Dietrichson : Monumenta Orcadica (1906 Christiana)
W P Drever : Udal Law and the Foreshore (1906 Edinburgh)
(Ed) J Gunn : The Orkney Book (1909 London)
W R Mackintosh : Around the orkney Peat Fires (1914 Kirkwall)
W P Drever : Udal Law in the Orkneys and Zetland (1914 Kirkwall)
M Spence : Flora Orcadiensis (1914 Kirkwall)
J G F M Heddle & T Mainland : Orkney & Shetland (1920 Cambridge)
J Firth : Reminiscences of an Orkney Parish (1922 Stromness)
J Mooney : Eynhallow - The Holy Isle of the Orkneys (1923 Kirkwall)
H Marwick : The orkney Norn (1926 Oxford)
J Mooney : St Magnus, Earl of Orkney (1935 Kirkwall)
A J Campbell : Fifteen Centuries of the Church in Orkney (1938 Kirkwall)
(Ed) A B Taylor : Orkneying Saga (1938 Edinburgh)
H Marwick : Merchant Laids of Long Ago (1939 Kirkwall)
J Gunn : Orkney - The Magnetic North (1941 London)
J Mooney : The Cathedral and Royal Burgh of Kirkwall (1943 Kirkwall)
H Marwick : The Place Names of Rousay (1947 Kirkwall)

After 1951
H Marwick : Orkney (1951 London)
H Marwick : Orkney Farm Names (1952 Kirkwall)
H Marwick : Ancient Monuments of Orkney - Official Guide (1952 Edinburgh)
R Rendall : Mollusca Orcadiensis (1956 Kirkwall)
D P Thompson : Orkney Through the Centuries - Lights and Shadows of the Church's Life in the Northern Isles
(1956 Kirkwall)
F Rollo : A History of the Orkney and Shetland Volunteers 1793-1958 (1958 Lerwick)
B L C Moira & R E Moira : Kirkwall and Stromness Survey Report (1959 Kirkwall)
R Rendall : Orkney Shore (1960 Kirkwall)
R S Barclay : The Population of Orkney 1755-1961 (1965 Kirkwall)
J R Coull : Report of the Survey of the Islands of Westray and Papa Westray (1965 Edinburgh)
H Mooney : St Magnus Cathedral, Kirkwall (1966 Kirkwall)
J Shearer, W Groundwater & J D Mackay : The New Orkney Book (1966 London)
J A Troup & F Eunson : Stromness (1967 Stromness)
R Miller & S Luther-Davies : Eday and Hoy - A Development Survey (1968 Glasgow UP)
J Robertson : Uppies and Doonies (1968 Kirkwall)
M A Scott : Island Saga - The Story of North Ronaldsay (1968 Kirkwall)
M Brown & P Meehan : Scapa Flow (1969 Penguin)
H Marwick : The Place Names of Birsay (1970 Aberdeen) - Edited by W F H Nicolaisen
Patrick Bailey : Orkney (1971 David & Charles)