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A project to transform the Casemate Barracks building into an exhibition space is progressing slowly due to the recession, according to the executive director of the National Museum of Bermuda. Edward Harris said: “We are not moving ahead quickly but...

FOR RENT For such Term of Years, as may be agreed on, That delightfully situated DWELLING-HOUSE, known by the Name of ‘Mount Wyndham,' in Hamilton Parish, and some time since occupied by Admiral Sir DAVID MILNE. The beautiful situation of this Dwelli...

‘In early October [1794], Murray learned of Hurd’s finding at Bermuda and sent the frigate Cleopatra there “to bring information of a Harbour, which I learned was lately discovered there, fit, it was said, to admit Ships of any Class”. The resulting ...

‘It is perhaps indicative of the perils of serving in the Navy at that time that a great number of deaths by drowning, falling from aloft and disease are recorded, mostly relating to people in what would nowadays be described as the prime of life, un...

Significant gaps in Bermuda’s early recorded history reflecting a ‘mutual forgetting of the past’ (as another historian put it), by such noted historians as Lefroy with respect to slavery, poor whites and Portuguese, were pinpointed in an address by ...

‘Rescuers plucked four seamen from the stormy Atlantic after their 250-foot cargo ship [Lloyd Bermuda] sank, but one died and seven others were missing today, including a crewman who slipped through his life jacket, authorities said.’ Los Angeles Tim...

“I often hear now-a-days, the automobile instigated good roads; that the automobile is the parent of good roads. Well, the truth is, the bicycle is the father of the good roads movement in this country.” Horatio Earle, 1929. “The road to civilisation...

A new project put forward by the St David’s Historical Society could give a taste of Island life 400 years ago. The society is hoping to build a temporary settler’s dwelling on the same St David’s property that is home to historic 17th century Carter...

‘Some people think you just turn on the tap and a tourist comes out.' Reggie Cooper, Bermuda Hotel Association president, 1986. ‘…we began to lose the atmosphere of the Living Room.' Larry Burchall, The Other Side, 1991. ‘We started treating customer...

Without question, Dockyard is considered to be one of the most fascinating areas in Bermuda. Its buildings and architecture are timeless and over recent decades the old Royal Naval Dockyard has certainly enhanced Bermuda’s reputation of being one of ...

This is an excerpt from Walton Brown’s book on Bermuda’s political history “Bermuda and the Struggle for Reform: Race, Politics and Ideology, 1944-1998.” It will be available on August 10. Although the BWA was, by the 1950s, an institution which had...