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Photograph of St. Kilda circa 1890. Albumen print, 23.40 x 29.10 cm. The photographer was an amateur photographer who worked as a joiner and cabinet-maker in Edinburgh; it's not known why he managed to get this posed photo of the residents of St. Kilda. Date: circa 1890
Macaulay, Kenneth (1764), The History of St Kilda, T Becket and P A De Hondt, London (Internet Archive) Macauley, Margaret (2009) The Prisoner of St Kilda: The true story of the unfortunate Lady Grange, Edinburgh, Luath ISBN 978-1-906817-02-2; McCutcheon, Campbell St. Kilda: a Journey to the End of the World, Tempus, 2002 ISBN 0-7524-2380-0
Thomas sailed with Captain Otter, on HMS Porcupine, on a voyage to St Kilda in 1860. There he took the earliest photographs ever taken of St Kilda. [17] While on St Kilda, Thomas made the acquaintance of the Rev. Mr. Kennedy, and asked him for information on antiquarian matters. The reply came from his niece, Anne Kennedy, and provides many ...
St Kilda was continuously inhabited for two millennia or more, from the Bronze Age to the 20th century. [1]However, little is known of the early history, the first written record of which dates from the late 14th century when John of Fordun mentions 'the isle of Irte, which is agreed to be under the Circius and on the margins of the world'. [2]
Johanna Kissling (or Kißling) (1875, Germany – 1961, Melrose, Scotland) was a pioneer German photographer based in Scotland.The main work that is preserved was taken in St Kilda and Lewis around 1905 when she traveled as a tourist.
As of 1930, thirteen men, ten women, eight girls and five boys lived in St Kilda, all on Hirta. The 10 households rented cottages from the landowner, with the other six cottages being unoccupied. The evacuation was encouraged by Barclay who was very concerned about health issues, especially after the deaths of two young women.
St Kilda is an isolated outlying archipelago in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland, and Sands played an important role in bringing the plight of the islanders to the world's attention. On his second visit Sands became stranded there in the winter of 1876–7, and during that time invented the "mailboat" by attaching a message to a lifebuoy salvaged ...
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