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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...

Supported by the Bank of Bermuda Foundation, the National Museum of Bermuda Press has recently published the fifth volume of Heritage Matters — the popular and informative historical essay series by Edward Harris. Heritage Matters was first launched...

A Bermudian student is taking an unprecedented look at the origins of the Island’s distinctive dialect. Rosemary Hall has spoken to dozens of residents and trawled through the archives as part of her extensive MPhil thesis on the evolution of “Bermud...

Helle Patterson spent her childhood outrunning the horrors of wartime Europe. The semi-retired Bermuda teacher was born in Rakvere, Estonia in 1938, the younger daughter of Karl and Meeta Nurk. The Russians invaded when she was 19 months old. “Then w...

The auditorium at the Ruth Seaton James Centre was packed for The Trail of Our People which offered a timely reminder about the origins of Cup Match. The event, hosted by Tina Evans-Caines and Gary Phillips, started promptly at 7pm as part of the Ema...

Anthony and Hannah Astwood were humble 18th-century salt rakers. Today they have hundreds of descendants including at least two knights, former Premier Sir John Swan and former Chief Justice and Court of Appeals president, Sir James Astwood. A family...

Two historic Bermuda train carriages could have been rediscovered at a railway workshop in Guyana more than half a century after they left the Island. The two freight railcars along with all the rolling stock and most of the rails were sent to Guyana...

As America observed the centenary of the outbreak of its Civil War in 1961, the Bermuda Historical Monuments Trust — predecessor to the National Trust — opened The Confederate Museum in St George’s Globe Hotel. The Island, because of geography, hist...

A raft of new discoveries on Smith’s Island have helped archaeologists paint a clearer picture of what life was like for Bermuda’s earliest settlers. The team led by Michael Jarvis from the University of Rochester have spent the last five weeks excav...

The opening shots of the American Civil War were fired at Fort Sumter outside Charleston, South Carolina, in 1861 when troops of the secessionist Confederacy bombarded Union defenders. When the centenary of the outbreak of this fratricidal conflict —...

It has been 800 years since England’s unpopular King John signed the first Magna Carta at the behest of a group of rebel barons. For 12-year-old Bermuda High School student Isabella Henderson, the occasion was a chance to reflect on one of the world’...