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Lecture to highlight Island’s maritime heritage

The Bermuda Sloop Foundation will host an interactive lecture with Dr Michael Jarvis, author of “In the Eye of All Trade: Bermuda, Bermudians, and the Maritime Atlantic World” next week. The lecture, entitled “Maritime Bermuda: What the 18th Century ...
Nov 08, 2013
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"Telling Bermuda’s story"

This year’s Historical Heartbeats lecture series will begin on Saturday and will feature guest speakers sharing stories about Bermudians who have contributed to society, but whose stories are perhaps not widely known. Hosted by the Department of Comm...
Oct 03, 2013
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"Bermudian influences in the Indian Ocean"

“We have learned from one who knew and frequently conversed with Bowen that he was born of creditable parents in the island of Bermuda who gave him a good education befitting him for the sea.” — Captain Charles Johnson, 1724. Seven hundred years aft...
Aug 31, 2013
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"Witnessing Dr King’s ‘I have a dream’ speech"

Today marks 50 years since the landmark US Civil Rights-era gathering widely known as the March on Washington, and the delivery of Dr Martin Luther King Jr’s “I Have A Dream” speech to the 250,000 participants in front of the Lincoln Memorial. For B...
Aug 28, 2013
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"A political pioneer gets her due"

Edna Watson was once called “the bravest woman alive”. The accolade came from a fellow passenger, who spent 11 hours floating with her and eight other survivors in the waters of the Atlantic, nearly 400 miles off Bermuda, as they waited for rescue fo...
Jul 21, 2013

"‘Best exhibit’ weighs in at 750 tons"

U-505 was the first and only German submarine captured by the United States Navy in either world war’.—Jordan Vause 2004 The British Museum may have some large Greek marbles, the Louvre its smiling lady and natural history museums a dinosaur or two,...
May 18, 2013
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"Nations united against slavery"

“The day passed, and the day closed in happiness and peace. It was quite the holiday — the people of colour aptly termed it Good Friday.” — Emancipation Day 1834 One hundred and eighty years after the 1833 Act that abolished slavery in British domi...
Mar 16, 2013
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"Links in history’s chain"

Under the patronage of the Hon Wayne Scott, JP, MP, Minister of Community and Cultural Development and Ms Cheryl Packwood, the National Museum this week launched a set of two books related to slavery in Bermuda, the latter an odious practice in these...
Mar 02, 2013

"Many are called, but few are chosen"

The degree of focus by all local media in observance of February 2013 as Black History Month has been unprecedented, stimulating and praiseworthy. However this writer could not let the month close without drawing the country’s attention to four indig...
Mar 02, 2013

"Piloting in a New Year"

“Oh Pilot! ’tis a fearful night, There’s danger on the deep.” — Thomas Haynes Bayly, The Pilot In a couple of days, the tide, or more importantly, the time, will turn as the world that sets its clock by the Gregorian Calendar transitions at midnight ...
Dec 29, 2012
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"Reviewer missed the point"

December 8, 2012 Dear Sir, We strongly disagree with your paper’s review of Jonathan Land Evans’ recent book ‘Peace, Prudence and Prosperity: a history of Bermuda from 1919 to 1939’. Your reviewer says “it could be” a valuable resource. In our opinio...
Dec 20, 2012
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