Recently, I have noticed that most everything written about St Kilda is in the past tense. It’s always “St Kilda was . . .” and never “St...

"For the few men left on Hirta life was hard. Lachlan Macdonald stayed to look after his mother. His father had died in a drowning...

On August 27, 1930, a small group of men, women and children began ferrying a few precious belongings down to the island’s jetty. They...

It is all but impossible to imagine what the remaining thirty-six St Kildans were feeling as the Dunara Castle pulled away from the...

A woman and a young boy holding freshly caught fulmers. For just a moment, I try and imagine what it was like to grow-up on St Kilda...