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The National Museum of Bermuda has launched an educational programmes called “Tracing Our Roots/Routes”. This year-long series of online presentations and workshops by overseas and local experts and an on-site contemporary art exhibit will support f...

In acknowledgement of Black History Month, The Royal Gazette today begins the publication of stories throughout February on African-American and global African people, events and institutions, and their contributions in history Today the phr...

A man told a commission set up to look at land losses that he had a paper trail of evidence to prove that his property was taken from him illegally – and that lawyers, real estate agents and banks played a role in the land grab. But Robert Moulder ga...

Family history will be at the heart of an educational programme and exhibition organised by the National Museum of Bermuda. Tracing Our Roots / Routes will include online presentations, workshops and other resources to promote research. Lisa Howi...

Demolition is under way on the historic Albert Row in Dockyard. The work being carried out by ABC Construction is expected to be completed in three weeks. The site will then be grassed over. Andrew Dias, general manager of the West End Development C...

An appeal was yesterday made for people to help identify the child in a 78-year-old mystery photograph found in the papers of a World War Two spymaster. The photo turned up in a collection of letters linked to Victor Haag, who lived in Bermuda for mo...

The St George’s Foundation vowed yesterday to continue to tell the story of Bermuda’s history despite the closure of the World Heritage Centre. The foundation will lock the doors of the Queen’s Warehouse at Penno’s Wharf – the former home of the WHC ...

Preparation for the demolition of historic Albert Row near the entrance to Dockyard has started. A spokesman for the West End Development Corporation, the owners, said: “The work taking place is the removal of asbestos in preparation for the eventual...

The US Congress last week hailed the 150th anniversary of a former Bermuda barber who became the first black person to win a seat in the US House of Representatives. Joseph Rainey – who ran a barber shop in St George’s – became a member of the US Hou...

A special commission into historic land losses heard yesterday that an inquiry into how some friendly societies ended up in private hands was needed. Michael Bradshaw, the president of the Bermuda Friendly Societies Association, told the Commission ...

The Bermuda National Trust has highlighted the history of its headquarters in a new book. Waterville, The Story of a House, Its People & Its Contents was released as the trust marks the building’s 50th anniversary as its nerve centre. The Grade 1...

The descendants of a man forced to sell his property in Tucker’s Town told a Commission of Inquiry into historic land losses that he was not paid for all of the land bought by compulsory purchase. Joann Adams told the Commission that her great grandf...