14 essays relating to Shetland History:
1. The Scots Settlement in Shetland by Gordon Donaldson
2. Geographical Location: environment and history by Alan Small
3. The pledging of the islands in 1469: the historic background by Barbara E Crawford
4. Udal Law by Knut Robberstad
5. The Post-Norse Place Names of Shetland by W F H Nicolson
6. Hanseatic merchants and their trade with Shetland by Klaus Friedland
7. The Netherland fisheries and the Shetland Islands by H A H Boelmans Kranenburg
8. Five Centuries of Shetland Fisheries by Alistair Goodlad
9. Shetland history in the Scottish records by Margaret D Young
10. The Discovery of Shetland from "The Pirate" to the Tourist Board by John M. Simpson
11. Population and Depopulation by William P L Thomson
12. Shetland and Norway in the Second World War by Magne Skodvin
13. Economic changes since 1946 by Stuart B Donald
14. Social changes during the Quinquennium by John J Graham (1469-1969)