Frontiers magazine is produced by Orkney International Science Festival, one of the world’s oldest science festivals after Edinburgh. We aim to explore ideas and places, and bring you …

Joan and Tom Flett made an unparalleled contribution to traditional dance knowledge through their research and collecting tours of Scotland and England in the 1950s and 60s. Tom was …

Its thinking was satirically summed up in a magazine in the early 1960s as: “Life is a garden. Some of us are the flowers, and some of you are the weeds.” Much more real, and I am sure …

Dr John Flett Brown, who died on 7 January 2024, was for so many people in Orkney and elsewhere the face of Orkney geology. Howie Firth looks at a life of commitment to the …

The 2024 Orkney International Science Festival marked the 50th anniversary of the death of the Orkney writer Eric Linklater. His novel The Dark of Summer, published in 1956, has a fresh …

Remember where you were when you read it in the papers yesterday, 15 August, just one day after Lammas. It’s a story that changes our whole picture of the Neolithic. Analysis of the Altar …

I have been an amateur synthesist for most of my adult life. There have been times where I have been less active, but for the past fifteen or so years, I have started to play very regularly again. …

The 2024 Festival programme has been launched, with the dates of 5-11 September, with a focus on exploring ideas at the front line – and to explore Orkney itself. There’s a look at practical …

It was a spring ploughing that did it, in Ola and Arnie Tait’s field at Brodgar in 2003. The plough caught on something, and up came a massive stone, long and rectangular. An initial trench …

We’re just back from London and I walked down the streets trailing my hands through aromatic salvias, noticing the choisya here flowering in November, their little white star flowers. When …