Splanky I—Atlantic

In the MIT museum in Cambridge, Massachusetts, there is (or used to be) a little whirring sculpture comprising an electric motor, a gear train, and a cube of concrete. The motor spins at

On my last morning in Orkney I found a scrap of time to visit the little chapel on Lamb Holm, built by Italian prisoners of war during World War Two. Before the war,

The scuttle of the German High Seas Fleet in Scapa Flow in 1919 gave rise in the years that followed to a salvage operation which lasted until the outbreak of the next war.

You can walk from Skara Brae to Stromness along the coastal path, hugging the coast, shadowing the uranium belt as it snakes down from the headlands of Yesnaby to the north end of

From time to time on this, my first visit to Orkney, I am in touch with my Irish relatives, who are coming to Cambridge for my mother’s funeral. A funeral is like