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“The whole town of Hamilton had come out to stare at the strange monster — the most wonderful craft that ever made voyage since Noah’s Ark went cruising.” — A British officer on the arrival of HM Floating Dock Bermuda on July 29, 1869. It is a curio...

“I once hear a sermon given by Dr. Patton who said “a man does to his destiny as straight as a shot from a gun”...Yet sometimes a warning voice if listened to may deliver one from the jaws of death.” Dr William Henry Watlington, ‘A Bermuda boy recall...

All that’s left of Undine — the Island’s fastest known racing sloop from the 1800s — is sitting in 50 or so pieces at the Bermuda National Museum in Dockyard. But Barry Brewer, a boat lover and enthusiast, is on a mission to replicate the historic v...

In high school Bermudian Jason Eddy didn’t have much patience for the work of 19th century writer Jane Austen, so it is ironic that he is now using her words to make a name for himself on the London stage. Since February, Mr Eddy, 29, has been part ...

‘Life in Bermuda took on a note of high gaiety as the blockade runners flocked to the islands. Mrs Norman Walker maintained a perennial open house for the South’s supporters and the Bourne’s “Rose Hill”, overlooking St George’s Harbour, ebbed and flo...

At the beginning of Governor Bennett’s term in 1701, members of the House of Assembly were scathingly described as having ‘privateering principles and a Bermuda education’. Anonymous, ‘A Brief History of Warwick Academy’, about 1976. From humble begi...

Archaeologists might like to think that the opening line of the favourite Anglican hymn ‘All Things Bright and Beautiful’ pays homage to all objects of heritage recovered by their special brand of science from the earth and under the sea, while the p...

On July 11, 1612, Bermuda’s first Governor, Richard Moore, and the island’s first permanent human settlers entered the easternmost harbour of the archipelago on the Plough, some weeks out of England. Moore was not an appointee of the English monarch...

We could not let Black History month sink into the files of 2012 without saluting a good friend Mrs Rosemary Joell Cann for her zeal in researching the life and times of her great-great grandfather, William Henry Thomas (WHT) Joell. He was the first ...

‘If Bermuda’s prosperity continues to increase, it is to be hoped that the designers of new houses that appear will seek their inspiration in Bermuda’s older architecture. It is eminently appropriate to the climate and other local conditions, harmoni...

Defending Bermuda in modern times has nothing to do with the military preparedness of the Bermuda Regiment or the importation of a British Army battalion and Royal Navy vessels, but all to do with the resuscitation of our tourism economy, a once vibr...