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Virginia’s Historic Jamestowne is celebrating the 400th wedding anniversary of Sea Venture survivor John Rolfe to Pocahontas this weekend. A recreation of the wedding will be held tomorrow at the cultural heritage site in Jamestown, Virginia as part ...

Continuing our Black History Month feature on the history of public broadcasting in Bermuda and the revolutionary part played by Montague Egbert Sheppard, we broaden the tapestry this week and bring into perspective Sheppard’s impact on television in...

Bermuda’s special links with celebrated author Samuel Clemens — better known as Mark Twain — are to be explored this month, thanks to a collaboration with a prestigious US museum dedicated to Twain’s life and legacy. Masterworks Museum will bring Mar...

“One round hit her quarterdeck, slightly wounding [Admiral Sir Peter] Parker in the knee and thigh. The shot also tore off part of his britches, leaving his backside exposed.” - Battle of Sullivan’s Fort, 28 June 1776. In the new plan for the future ...

In 1963, Christine Pearman was one of five black students to usher in the start of racial integration at Whitney Institute. Before that time the private school was reserved for white children on the Island. But the Theatre Boycott in 1959 gradually ...

“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...

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...

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...

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,...