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In 1990, I volunteered to do a series of oral histories for the National Museum of Bermuda on Bermudians involved in our maritime history. With their permission, I have selected George Fielding Swan, whose story I have rewritten and updated to includ...

In the winter of 1964, my husband was returning to school in New York. It was Boxing Day. At JFK airport, he was captivated by a portly Black man dressed in a suit and tie, over which he wore an ankle-length camel hair coat. Around his neck was a pla...

The Royal Gazette article written by Jonathan Bell and published on May 27, 2022 stated “preserving histories of schools facing closure under public education reforms is to go ahead with the selection of members for a history and legacy committee”. I...

In the third of a series of profiles to mark Nurses Month, Cecille Snaith-Simmons tells the story of Phyllis Leonie Harford and her drive to be accepted by Bermuda

In the second of a series of profiles to mark Nurses Month, Cecille Snaith-Simmons tells the story of Edward Dyer, Bermuda’s first male nurse Edward Dyer was one of seven children born to Kathlyn Dyer and Leslie Dyer, a well-respected electrical...

In the first of a series of profiles to mark Nurses Month, Cecille Snaith-Simmons tells the story of Bermudian nurse Lorraine Lauretta Dyer-Bizek SRN, SCM, QN, HV, who braved war and moving to a new country to become the first Bermudian Queen’s N...

In the mid-1920s, St George’s businessman Henry E.A. Dowling, William Cooper MCP, W.R. Perinchief, Lorrie Williams and others met to discuss concerns regarding the quality of education afforded the children of St George’s. They approached C.G. Gilber...

The late Rosalind Robinson, a respected, retired school principal and the wife of the late Kenneth Robinson, PhD, likened the formation of the Bermuda Union of Teachers in February 1919 to “a phoenix rising from the ashes”. The late Adele Tucker, one...

Lillian Minors, my godmother, has always described herself as a “mover and a shaker”. Her early years were as busy and industrious as her later years, and her skills as a businesswoman were identified very early in life. Lily, as she was fondly known...

My friend Wynette Tucker urged me on many occasions to interview her neighbour, Gwendolyn Smith. Mrs Smith, she said, was anxious to share what she knew about a tomato factory that existed in Smith’s Parish when she was a girl. I had been the distric...