From left: A home in Bigton, in Scotland’s Shetland Islands; Lerwick, the archipelago’s main town. That transnational history is also visible in other aspects of Shetland culture. First-time visitors ...

Though T.S. Eliot was born right here in St. Louis, he decided later on in life that he was actually an Englishman. Kind of like those goth kids in high school who cop a fake British accent, that’s ...

Drive around the Shetland Islands in the far north of Scotland, and at least one thing is immediately apparent: It's home to a lot of sheep. They're everywhere — wandering along the roadsides and on ...

Shetland’s Organisation for Knitters made the warning in a proposed submission to the UK Living Heritage Inventory.

That transnational history is also visible in other aspects of Shetland culture. First-time visitors might expect wildness, isolation, and more nature than culture. But curious travelers will find ...