Storm's Edge - Life, Death and Magic in the Islands of Orkney

From Peter Marshall, winner of the Wolfson Prize 2018, a new history of the Orkney Islands that dives deep into island culture and politics, and the evolution of folklore, belief and community memory on the geographical edge of Britain. Peter Marshall was born in Orkney, his ancestors farmers and farm labourers on the northern island of Sanday - one of them was murdered by a witch there in 1624. Merging his local experience with wider historical expertise, Marshall looks afresh at a small group of islands that has been treated as a mere footnote, remote and peripheral, and in doing so invites us to think differently about key events of British history. With Orkney as our point of departure, we traverse three centuries of dramatic religious, political and economic upheaval, a time during which what we think of as modern Scotland, and then modern Britain, was being forged and tested.

Product details

• Authors: Peter Marshall
• Publisher: William Collins
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.04.2024
• EAN: 9780008394394
• ISBN: 978-0-00-839439-4
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 240 mm x 50 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, European History, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical, SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Geography, 20th Century, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / Historical Geography, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Scotland, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / 20th Century, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Victorian Era (1837-1901), c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Autobiography: historical, political & military, Orkney Islands, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, British & Irish history, Local History, Islands, Social and cultural history, Autobiography: historical, political and military, Physical geography & topography, Historical Geography