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In one of our archive strong rooms there is a shelf. The shelf does not contain the most exciting or interesting item in the archive but it does contain something
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Today (24th July) is the 50th anniversary of #Apollo11 returning back to Earth from the Moon which is an amazing story but here is another amazing story that you might
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This is the west shore of Stromness looking across to the islands of Graemsay and Hoy.In 1846 this was the site of a remarkable discovery. The rocks here are Old
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It's Thursday night and we're *not* open late so it's *not* time for #BookFace. Nobody at home wants to do it and the cat was furious last time so here
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Today is #RLSDay which marks the birthday of Robert Louis Stevenson, born #OTD in 1850.In June 1869 Stevenson visited #Orkney on a tour of lighthouses aboard the @NLB_UK yacht Pharos.
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