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Every generation likes to consider itself to be more intelligent, more capable and entirely more virtuous than the one which preceded it. And every generation likes to think it has either attained or is close to attaining the very pinnacle of human p...

On a distant green meadow in the English countryside stands a memorial to one of the most important figures in Bermudian history. The bronze chair emblazoned with the name of Mary Prince is one of 12 that forms a new piece of artwork called The Juror...

Historian Walton Brown is launching a series of six lectures designed to improve local knowledge of Bermuda history right up to the modern day. Mr Brown, the Progressive Labour Party MP, launched “Understanding Modern Bermuda” after the popularity o...

Mary Prince, a former slave and one of Bermuda’s national heroes, has come to new prominence in Britain for her key role in the campaign to abolish slavery. The group Historic England is championing the cause of the women whose contributions to the f...

Dear Sir, At the Bermuda Gunpowder Plot re-enactment and dedication of a new interpretive sign at Tobacco Bay on Saturday, August 15, I made remarks regarding historical tourism and Bermuda’s role in the American Revolution that I would like to share...

War is always a great evil, but as even pacifist Bertrand Russell conceded, under some extreme circumstances it may actually be the lesser of two evils. The Second World War [1939-1945] was a case study in just such circumstances. The entire world wa...

Hundreds descended on Tobacco Bay on Saturday evening to witness the first re-enactment of the theft of the Governor’s gunpowder supplies more than two centuries ago. About 300 locals, visitors and a 50-strong delegation from the Sons, Daughters and ...

Bermuda’s lost sailors were remembered during an historic ceremony at sea organised through the Guild of the Holy Compassion in partnership with the Department of Marine and Ports. The Royal Gazette was invited to witness and document yesterday’s ev...

Scores gathered at Port Royal Golf Course yesterday afternoon to remember the actions of two Bermuda-born patriots. An historic plaque honouring St George Tucker and Thomas Tudor Tucker was officially dedicated in front of a delegation of more than 5...

The descendants of the American revolutionaries who won their country’s freedom from the British want to pay Bermuda back for the gunpowder stolen in 1775. More than $4,000 has been raised for the Island’s charities by a team of delegates coming to B...

Anyone interested in Bermuda’s Gunpowder Plot should give Michael Marsh’s new book a read. He claims it’s “the defining story” of those events on August 14, 1775. “I had so many questions about the Gunpowder Plot and I had to find the answers,” he s...

Planning the logistics for this week’s elaborate re-enactment of the Gunpowder Plot, the first of its kind, has grown into a plot of its own. The team gathered yesterday at Tobacco Bay for some on-site preparations to recreate the infamous 1775 consp...