Professor Heddle, however, explained what she felt were the reasons for this. He is very much defined by his love of Orkney but in recent years has come under fire for his Viking/ Nordic bias. Storer Clouston has been largely forgotten about despite the influence he has had on the way present day Orcadians think of themselves. It centered on the importance of Storer’s History of Orkney and examined it within the context of its time.Īlthough hugely successful as a novelist in his day J. Professor Heddle’s talk at the St Magnus Centre, Kirkwall was “ Writing the Vikings: Storer Clouston and the Scandinification of Orkney Identity”. You can read more about him here: J Storer Clouston Novelist Including the History of Orkney, The Spy in Black and the series The Lunatic at Large. He wrote an amazing diverse array of books. Storer Clouston Lecture was given by Professor Donna Heddle of the Institute of Northern Studies, UHI on Friday 11th May 2018.īorn in Cumberland on 23rd May 1870, educated at Merchiston Castle School Edinburgh and Magdalen College Oxford, Joseph Storer Clouston spent most of his life in Orkney. Hosted by ‘Another Orkney Production’ the Inaugural J.
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