[Dilapidated housing in an outlying, sparsely populated island: hopelessly socialist Scotland]

Earl’s Palace, Kirkwall, Orkney Islands.

Kirkwall is today the capital of Orkney but was for centuries the capital of the Norse-held Nordreyjar – the ‘Northern Isles’. James III of Scotland annexed the islands in 1472 after his bride’s father, Christian I of Denmark-Norway, failed to pay her promised dowry.

The Earl’s Palace was built around 1606 by Patrick, Earl of Orkney.

Known as ‘Black Patie’, the earl ruled the Northern Isles from 1592 until his execution 23 years later. It was alleged at the trial of the authoritarian ruler that he used slave labour to build his residences.

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