The Orkney Herald (1860-1961) was a newspaper published in Kirkwall on the Orkney islands in Scotland. It was initially called the Orkney Herald, and Weekly Advertiser and Gazette for the Orkney & Zetland Islands from 1860, and then the Orkney Herald, and Weekly Advertiser and Gazette for the Northern Counties from 3 January 1877 to 24 July 1940. It continued as the Orkney Herald until it closed on 10 January 1961.[1][2]
Jack Twatt was the editor from 1951 to 1961.[3]
The poet George Mackay Brown wrote for the Orkney Herald from 1944 into the mid-1950s.[4] The poet Robert Rendall wrote for the paper around the same time.[5] The Orcadian writer Ernest Marwick was on its staff from 1955 to 1960.
See also
References
- ^ W.S. Hewison (1961) "The 'Orkney Herald' ceases publication", 11 January. Recording held by British Library.
- ^ Kim Twatt (1996) Straight from the horse's mouth: The Orkney Herald 1950-1961, the paper and its people, Orkney: Herald Publications.
- ^ Fiona Grahame (2020) "Jack Twatt and the Orkney Herald", Orkney News, April 19. https://theorkneynews.scot/2020/04/19/jack-twatt-and-the-orkney-herald/
- ^ William S. Peterson "Stromness News", https://gmbbibliography.wordpress.com/stromness-news/.
- ^ Robert Rendall (1959) "Birsay's Forgotten Palace", Orkney Herald, 21 April.
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