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On a beautiful sunny day in July 1988, I sat with my great-aunt, Edith Burgess, as she recalled a church picnic held in 1903. She was 96 at the time and blessed with the remarkable gift of recall. It is only now that I realise she was recollecting a ...

An ageing replica of an historic ship is on course to become an attraction designed to tell the story of Bermuda’s early shipbuilding industry. Colin Campbell, the director of architecture firm OBM, said the revamp of the Deliverance was part of a p...

Plans to demolish a historic building linked to National Hero Mary Prince have been modified after a series of objections. The former Watlington House – used by Ocean View Golf Course as a warehouse – was set for demolition as part of plans to build ...

The Mayor of St George brought the sunshine to a UK coastal town last week while on a visit to commemorate Sir George Somers, who helped to found Bermuda. George Dowling III and several members of the Corporation of St George’s visited the town of L...

Masterworks Museum will next month give the public a glimpse at an unseen side of the celebrated diver and explorer Teddy Tucker with an exhibition of his art. ‘Dive In: The Art of the Wreck’, to open on August 6, will highlight never before seen pai...

A scholarship that has been supported Bermudians researching the island’s history and culture for 25 years will now help a young marine archaeologist pursue his studies. Xander Cook, 22, was presented with $6,000 by the Bermuda Historical Society las...

The fight against slavery in a Caribbean nation 1,000 miles to Bermuda’s south has been celebrated as the island looks to commemorate its own 1834 emancipation over Cup Match. Glenn Fubler, from the activist group Imagine Bermuda, said the Haitian Re...

The Cup Match Classic, set to go ahead after being cancelled last year, will be the first with Mary Prince Day to coincide with the cricket. Rolfe Commissiong, the former Progressive Labour Party MP who championed the renaming, said seeing the match ...

Historians and a Government Ministry have urged the Ocean View Golf Course to reconsider plans to demolish a historic building where, as a slave, Mary Prince was prepared for sale. According to a planning application, the club intends to tear down an...

Victorian-era portraits of the island’s first postmaster and his wife have finally made their way back home, thanks for the generosity of a couple 8,000 miles away who have gifted the treasures to Bermuda. The paintings of William Bennet Perot and hi...

Planning renovations at the historic home of Verdmont will benefit from enhancements thanks to a $10,000 donation from The Garden Club of Bermuda. The donation was made to the Bermuda National Trust museum and gardens as part of the Garden Club’s 10...

In the City of Hamilton, the house Wantley may be endangered but, out in the west, in “God’s country”, the uppermost parish of Sandys, a little monument of built-heritage has been restored, thanks to the generosity of Crisson Construction and an anon...