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“Son of Bermuda” St George Tucker, the law professor who alerted American patriot leaders to a store of gunpowder in Bermuda, has been commemorated at a ceremony in Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia. The Bermuda-born American patriot was Professor of L...

The Tucker’s Town Cemetery has been listed as a Historical Monument by Home Affairs Minister Michael Fahy. The announcement was made today following a period of public consultation. Mr Fahy encouraged the Tucker’s Town Cemetery stakeholders to work ...

New research on the roots of Bermuda’s Gombeys will be presented at a free lecture this weekend given by visiting US historian Heather Kopelson. Professor Kopelson plans to explore the rhythms and gestures of the Island’s earliest recorded “riotous m...

A US citizen who spent holidays at the Queen of the East has given a unique insight into what it was like to live in one of Bermuda’s oldest homes. David Wood spent several summers in the historic old merchant home between 1959 and 1961 as a teenager...

As they cut into the tree root, the strong smell of cedar emerged, which was pretty amazing considering the tree root was over 7,000 years old. The tree root discovered on the seabed off Bermuda’s East End some years ago, forms the focal point of a n...

When Bermuda born adoptee Heather Reece Jewell Desabrais first contacted her biological siblings they were astonished but pleased to meet her. More surprises lay in wait for them all, however, when Ms Desabrais discovered they all had two more siblin...

The first phase of work to restore and save one of Bermuda’s oldest school buildings has begun. Moonray Manor dates back to the 1840s and had fallen into disrepair over the last two decades. But trustees of the Moonray Manor Trust, David Saul and Fra...

The Guild of the Holy Compassion held their annual Ceremony at Sea yesterday, honouring the memory of Pilot Jemmy Darrell and remembering those lost at sea. Pilot Darrell, a Bermudian slave, was granted his freedom after successfully guiding HMS Reso...

The last battles fought between Britain and America had their origins in Bermuda 200 years ago this month. A massive fleet under the command of Vice-Admiral Alexander Cochrane left the island in August 1814 headed for Chesapeake Bay to crack down on ...

RG: In our opinion Just as the unswerving route of the old Bermuda Railway cuts across the landscape like a long, straight scar, so the story of controversial land expropriations mars Bermuda’s modern history. Before construction could begin on that ...