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Dear Sir, I write as an historian motivated to encourage greater awareness of our past. As a Bermudian, I hope that what follows may help in achieving greater understanding of the relevance of the past in the present day. Bermuda’s motto and crest we...

After selling out its initial two-year print run in less than three weeks, Island Flames second edition will go on sale early next year. Jonathan Smith’s book chronicles the story behind Bermuda’s 1977 riots, which saw two tourists and a Bermudian ho...

On the 38th anniversary of the Bermuda riots, Cordell Riley has called for a committee “with teeth” to look into the social problems behind this dark chapter in local history. The social commentator and statistician, who wrote the closing chapter of ...

The Bermuda family experienced one of its deepest crises on the weekend of December 2, 1977 — the violent conclusion to a five-year period with ten lives lost. Notwithstanding the tragedy, as documented in Jonathan Smith’s latest book, Island Flames,...

Three old black-and-white photographs of one of Bermuda’s oldest cedar launches have revealed a unique glimpse of a bygone era in the Island’s maritime history. The historic images, which are believed to date back to 1918 or 1919, show the maiden voy...

Bermuda is still yet to shed its longstanding discrimination against the Portuguese community, the Honorary Consul for Portugal has claimed. Andrea Moniz-DeSouza said that historical tensions and political skulduggery were among the causes behind the...

Tomorrow marks 52 years since the assassination of John F Kennedy, an event that Alice Liburd Robinson holds in both memory and verse. Like everyone alive for the signature tragedy of 1963, Mrs Liburd Robinson, 87, remembers where she was: at home li...

An almost 400-year-old Bermuda coin fetched more than $70,000 at auction recently. The coin, a rare Sommer Islands sixpence popularly known as “hogge money”, was one of a collection of coins sold at auction in New York on October 28. The event, prese...

A trove of little-known Bermudian history, replete with facts and pictures never before gathered, hits the shelves this evening. The third volume of local author Horst Augustinovic’s series What You May Not Know About Bermuda took two years of resear...

Mark Twain got mischievous at his first Bermuda cricket game, deliberately peppering his host with silly questions. The exasperated host, probably US vice consul William Allen, told him wickets were for the umpire to sit on when he got tired. Twain, ...

Three generations of the Savage family have left an indelible print on Bermuda’s history. This month brothers William and Peter Savage followed in the ancestor’s footsteps and returned to the Island to see the exploits of three generations of their f...

Soldiers from the Black Watch revisited the well dug by their forebears in 1849 — thought to be the first time the famous regiment has returned to the spot since. The pipes and drums of the legendary Scottish regiment, now the 3rd Battalion of the Ro...