https://www.shetlandmuseumandarchives.org.uk/exhibitions/miserabiles-personae-the-poor-in-society
Yesterday the children from Fetlar visited the Shetland Museum and Archives and gained VIP access to the repository (place where very important documents about Shetland are held). The found the oldest, largest, smallest and animal hide written documents held there. The documents are held in a specially protected vault and they got to press the button to operate the storage mechanism. They looked at documents as part of their topic on Fetlar past and present including school records and minutes of suffrage meetings held in Shetland. They also were shown around the exhibition showing how children and the poor existed in medieval Norway and Shetland, and how King Magnus Lawmender‘s new law code of 1274 affected society here and in Norway. Thanks so much to the amazing team at the Museum.
