Summary catalogue of Shetland Archives
Shetland Islands Council records
SIC Shetland Islands Council records
SIC/1 Minutes of Shetland Islands Council and main committees, 1974-
SIC/10 Valuation Rolls, Shetland Islands Council 1976 –
SIC/11 Valuation Lists, Shetland Islands Council 1976-
SIC/12 Electoral Rolls, Shetland Islands Council 1974-
SIC/13 Community Charges Register, Shetland Islands Council, 1989-1993
Lerwick Town Council records
TO/1 Council and committee records, files, letter-books, etc., 1818-1975
Zetland County Council records
CO/1 Commissioners of Supply records 1750s-1890s
CO/2 Road Trustees records
CO/3 Minutes of Zetland County Council 1890-1975
CO/4 Abstracts of Accounts of Zetland County Council 1890-1975
CO/5 Education records 1872-1975
CO/6 Public Assistance records 1890-20th cent
CO/7 Zetland County Council files 20th cent
CO/8 Valuation rolls and voters’ rolls 1832-
CO/9 Public health records 20th cent
CO/10 Motor taxation records 20th cent
Records under Charge and Superintendence of Keeper of the Records of Scotland
AD22 Procurator Fiscal records 1850-1920s
CE85 Customs and excise papers 1790-1909
GD144 Bruce of Symbister papers 16th – 20th cent
JP33 Justice of the Peace records 19th – 20th cent
SC12 Lerwick Sheriff Court records 15th – 20th cent
AF29 Lerwick Fishery Office Records 1809-1971
Gifts and Deposits
CH2 and CH3 Church of Scotland and Free Church papers
CH11 Records of the Methodist Church
GD150 Morton papers (estate papers)
D1 Small gifts and deposits
D2 Haldane Burgess (novelist and poet)
D3 Leog House (papers of local antiquary)
D4 Hay of Laxfirth (estate records)
D5 Shetland Literary and Scientific Society
D6 E.S. Reid Tait collection (collection of local antiquarian)
D7 Laurence Williamson collection (folklorist)
D8 Bruce of Sumburgh collection (estate records)
D9 Peter Jamieson papers (socialist and author)
D10 Vaila papers (estate papers)
D11 Shetland Library collection (miscellaneous papers)
D12 Neven of Windhouse collection (estate papers)
D13 L.H. Mathewson papers (lawyer’s papers)
D14 L.D. Edmondston papers (estate papers)
D15 T.&J. Manson papers (local business)
D16 Irvine of Midbrake papers (antiquarian and land surveyor)
D17 Papers of John Small, solicitor, Lerwick
D18 Shetland Folk Society papers
D20 Basil R. Anderson papers (poet)
D21 Hilda Clark papers (miscellanea)
D22 Papers of T.A. Robertson (poet)
D23 Papers of A.D. Mathewson (teacher and land surveyor)
D24 Nicolson estate papers
D25 Tom Henderson papers (antiquary)
D27 John Stewart papers Listed
D28 Shetland Council of Social Service
D29 Papers of Olga Greig Comloquoy
D30 W.J. Tait papers (poet)
D31 Hay & Co. papers (mercantile firm)
D32 Papers of Prof. Gordon Donaldson (historian)
D38 Papers of John Johnson, Lerwick (antiquary)
D41 G.M. Nelson papers
D50 Papers of Major Dennis Rollo (military historian)
D51 Papers of Thomas Robertson, Delting
D52 Papers of CADE [Campaign Against Dounreay Expansion]
D53 Papers of Edward Thomason, Lerwick
D54 Records of St Magnus Episcopal Church, Lerwick
D56 Papers of Shetland Amenity Trust's Ship Wrecks Project
D57 Papers of Roy Grönneberg (1947-1997)
D59 Papers of Sam Anderson and Mona Tait, emigrants to New Zealand
Oral History Collections
SA3/ Biographical interviews with variety of informants
TA/ Tom Anderson, musician
BBCRS/ (Radio Shetland) Listing in progress
SA Collections
SA1/ Microforms, includes local newspapers, census and Ordnance Survey maps
SA2/ Transcripts and photocopies
SA3/ Oral history
SA4/ Published works, includes books and journals
SA5/ Video collection
SA6/ Maps and Plans