Image 1: What job is the man doing? Why is it dangerous?
Image 2: Why did a lot of young men want to leave St. Kilda to go to the mainland around the early 1900s?
Image 3: What disease wiped out a lot of the St. Kilda population?
Image 4: What event led to a lot of young men leaving the island and seeing the wider world? What happened to them afterwards?
Image 5: What do you think is happening here and why? (I call this image 'message in a bottle')
Image 6: Who are these people? Can you see anything about their ages to suggest how they are related? What does this tell us about life for young women?
Image 7: What did young women do on St. Kilda? How are these for? How could they make money?
Image 8: What is happening here? (This is the end!)

a. Young women stayed with their elderly parents - there were no young men left to marry. 1920s
b. Young women could knit socks from the wool of the Soay sheep and sell these for a few pence to richer tourists visiting on ships in the summer. 1900
c.  Many young men went to fight in World War I - even many of the survivors never returned - as they had seen a wider world. 1915
d. Wildfowling took place every summer.  The birds were eaten, and things like beaks, feathers and fat could be used.1800s
e. Some winters were so hard the islanders thought they would starve. They desperately tried to contact the outside world. 1876
f. Smallpox killed many of the islanders. 36 of the survivors emigrated to Australia. 1852
g. The young men were attracted to the mainland because of the work and the women. 1920s
h. The last 36 islanders asked the UK government to take them off the island forever. 1930

Use the heading above. Write these up as a paragraph in the correct order.