To do justice to the events that have shaped Orkney in the 20th century and the people of note the islands have produced would take much more than eight pages of a newspaper.

The following can be no more than a taste of Orkney over the past 100 years – and people of note, either from the county or who have had an influence on it.

Put together by Neil Burns, this look back at the past century represents an abridgment of articles from the book, The Orcadian Book of the 20th Century compiled by Howard Hazell.